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President Barack Obama Has Balls, But Nigerian Presidents Have None by Orikinla(m): 8:14pm On Sep 06, 2011
I have only one simple illustration from a book to show that the brave President Barack Obama of the United States of America has balls, but Nigerian Presidents have none in addressing emergencies.

The failure of the Nigerian government to check the excesses of Chevron, Shell and other oil companies have made them to disregard their rules of engagement, because these oil companies spill more oil into the Niger Delta each year than was spilled as a result of the Deepwater Horizon disaster that devastated the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. President Barack Obama did not waste time to address the emergency and compelled the BP to pay.

"We will make BP pay for the damage their company has caused," Obama said in an 18-minute speech. "And we will do whatever's necessary to help the Gulf Coast and its people recover from this tragedy." President Barack Obama said authoritatively.

BP set up a $20bn compensation fund after the Deepwater Horizon disaster and has so far paid out 19,000 claims totalling more than $240m and BP's bill for containing and cleaning up the oil spill has reached nearly $10bn (£6.4bn).

President Obama did not need to commission the United Nations Environment Protection (UNEP) and did not pay for any assessment or disaster management report before compelling BP to pay for the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

"The oil industry has been a key sector of the Nigerian economy for over 50 years, but many Nigerians have paid a high price, as this assessment underlines," said Achim Steiner, U.N. under-secretary general and the executive director of the U.N. Environment Program, which carried out the report.

Yet, our inept and incompetent government failed to prosecute the indicted Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Chevron and other

multinational oil companies to pay for the collateral damages they have been doing in the Niger Delta for decades.

The failures of the government and the impunity of the multinational oil companies provoked the rise of insurgency in the Niger Delta.
Re: President Barack Obama Has Balls, But Nigerian Presidents Have None by werepeLeri: 8:20pm On Sep 06, 2011
Is it not your own community heads that collect money and close their eyes to the atrocities of the oil companies.
Re: President Barack Obama Has Balls, But Nigerian Presidents Have None by ektbear: 8:24pm On Sep 06, 2011
Obama is probably gonna lose his reelection bid undecided
Re: President Barack Obama Has Balls, But Nigerian Presidents Have None by Rhino5dm: 8:42pm On Sep 06, 2011
wetin concern me with Mr. N-obama? BTW which obama get balls sef? Thesame president with the least approval rating in US history?. . .Abeg make Obama go face the JOBLESS youths.

"Yeah, ZERO jobs were created last month in US", even me sef employ some people last month.

How pity . . .we have bombs,we got no light but we are still recruiting!
Re: President Barack Obama Has Balls, But Nigerian Presidents Have None by Orikinla(m): 7:48pm On Sep 12, 2011
President Obama has been able to tackle terrorism and he is doing his best in other areas and he is going to be reelected.

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