No fewer than 350 northerners have relocated from some parts of the Niger Delta for fear of attacks, following an alleged threat letter sent to the Hausa community resident in Delta State by a Niger Delta militant group, Egbesu Mightier Fraternity (EMF),

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This is another manifestation of the ugly nature of citizenship in Nigeria today. We have Delta state ejecting Northern Muslims, Ekiti state ejecting "foreign" disabled students and Lagos state deporting "foreign" beggars.

Nigeria is a failed state.

@OP
Kpogede warned, about 2 months back!

Beaf:

This is another manifestation of the ugly nature of citizenship in Nigeria today. We have Delta state ejecting Northern Muslims, Ekiti state ejecting "foreign" disabled students and Lagos state deporting "foreign" beggars. Abia state nko?

Nigeria is a failed state.

A failed state indeed! The sooner we unravel it into Four to five parts - Arewa, middle belt, oduduwa, Biafra, and Niger delta republics - the better for us.

Northerners Please leave the Niger delta and move up north, WEST OR EAST

There is no point in wasting life

Northerners are humble people and we do not fight or cause trouble.

JNI Warns FG Over Insecurity Of Its Members


Wed, 26/10/2011 - 12:34am | MIDAT JOSEPH
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Following the one-week warning to all Muslim communities resident in the Niger Delta to vacate the land by a Warri-based group known as Egbesu Mightier Fraternity, the Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI) yesterday called on the federal government to, as a matter of urgency, look into security threats being made against the people.

The Islamic body, which expressed concern over the fate of Muslims in the South-South region of the country, said it is the responsibility of the government to ensure the security of lives and properties of its citizens irrespective of where they may find themselves.

The Egbesu Mightier Fraternity group had, in a letter dated October 10, 2011, copied to the Sultan of Sokoto Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, said “Dear Muslim communities in Niger Delta, leave our land (Niger Delta) now within seven days.

No basis for unity. We are compelled by the present Boko Haram’s merciless bombings in the country without veritable developmental agitation. Even, the killing is going on in the north.

The continuous killings of Christians in the north should be stopped forthwith. Call your brothers to order.”
Speaking at a press briefing yesterday in Kaduna, the secretary-general of JNI, Sheik Khalid Abubakar Aliyu, said that the Muslim communities are “under serious threats and, as a result, some of them have started moving out of the region because it is no longer safe for them to live there.”
“Muslims are under serious threats of their lives and property in the Niger Delta region and we have not heard anything from the government.

Information reaching us say some of the Muslims have started moving out, so it means the threat is becoming a reality and there is an inherent threat from some Christian militants from Kaduna who call themselves Akwa’at which was carried by some newspapers.
The story reads: “Christian militants threaten to hunt Arab nationals in Nigeria.’’

They mention countries like Saudi Arabia, Iran, Syria given orders by their superiors to hunt down these people and deal with them, which is also a very serious threat to peace and tranquility in this country.

Where are the rules of the game relating to bi-lateral relations where some groups will just spring up and dash threats on people?’’ he lamented.
According to the JNI’s sec. gen., “One of the most pathetic and disheartening situation is how somebody like the president of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Pastor Ayo Iritsejafor, would stand up and call on the government to allow the owning of guns by Nigerians in this situation of security threats where there are so many restive youths and for whoever has the money to engage them.
He queried, “Countries that have legalised them, are they any better? An example is the Norway massacre where a young man killed about 90 students.

Therefore, it is uncalled for and I think when people who occupy leadership positions especially of religious nature, should speak with wisdom and I think their utterances should be those that will bring about peaceful coexistence, understanding and good social relations with one another’’.
On the Jos crises, he noted with disappointment: “It was sad to read on the cover of newspapers that a Ward head seized by JTF was found dead.

Security people who are supposed to broach peace, who are supposed to protect lives and property of people, but unfortunately they are not concern with security of life and property, rather they destroy them.

Therefore, we call on the government to see to the investigation of the cause that led to the death of Alhaji Ahmadu Ali Kazaure, the ward head that was allegedly killed in police custody.”
He called on media organizations to always avoid anything that would cause rift for peace and harmony to prevail in the country adding that religious issues should be religiously handled in consultation with relevant faiths before legislation.
He further decried the moral and ethical threats on the proposed legalization of prostitution, saying “they said that because prostitution is becoming a menace to the country all efforts have been made to curtail the issue, and it seems it is becoming nagging. So the only solution is to legalize it.

What type of thinking is this? Do the countries who legalise prostitution solve any moral and ethical problems? In this trying moment of in country when we need moral regeneration and uprightness.

Before this saga of the legalisation of prostitution was the attempt to sponsor a bill that would allow for same sex marriage. After the socio-economic crises the country is facing, which we have not solved, we are thinking of adding insult to injury; democracy is not madness.”
He maintained that JNI is concerned over the incessant increase in the rate of rape in the country and it is becoming a menace and it cuts across all the geopolitical zones in the country.

It is quite unfortunate, especially with the new trend where young boys will target older women or mad women and small children at kindergarten age, he said. “It is really serious in this country.

The law must come to action to bring the perpetrators of this hideous act to book and our legislators are not called to come and bring foreign culture to our country.”


For me it is long over due. Better they come back o! ESpecially since alot of them hardly do anything meaningful to say it is worth remaining in the ND.Hate when i see them guarding,doing shoe repairs or selling things like cigarrettes.Now the Governors up North should get them rolling in the farms and upgrading the educational standards especially in areas of Information technology.Else let the revolt start up north like the post-election violence but targetted at the elites and crooks stealing such that the governors and does in governement will reject there positions out of fear of failure except where they are sure to deliver.

where is kpogede77?

alj_harem:

Northerners Please leave the Niger delta and move up north, WEST OR EAST

There is no point in wasting life

Northerners are humble people and [b]we [/b]do not fight or cause trouble.

this chamelon just forgot that he was an Awori man (Yoruba) just a few minutes ago. He is now Northerner. Na wa o.

editted

In that JNI crap, not a single sentence condemning Boko Haram! Is that fair?

PointB:

A failed state indeed! The sooner we unravel it into Four to five parts - Arewa, middle belt, oduduwa, Biafra, and Niger delta republics - the better for us.

There is nothing like ND republic except on the internet, of course. There is only Ijaw republic.

Yoruba Muslims being chased out of Warri nko?

Make everybody kuku return to their father's land. Then we can decide if Nigeria is what we really want.

jason123:

There is nothing like ND republic except on the internet, of course. There is only Ijaw republic.

lol,

I am hearing Ijaw republic for the first time from you.

Niger Delta Republic has made headlines here and in diverse places. So you denial is completely discounted. Below is just of of the numerous call for Niger Delta Republic, stop distorting facts:

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/07/militant-group-demands-republic-of-niger-delta/

PointB:

In that JNI crap, not a single sentence condemning Boko Haram! Is that fair?

Call it crap all you want.Have they not mentioned and condemn it on many fora before this.While you are it,why is CAN not also condemning the calls by the xtian militia of the ND?Tell me how man times CAN has condemn it and the Kaduna xtian terrorist group then we can go back to issues.While you sit on your crap you only want to pick holes on others. .

^^^

You don't need to reply that guy, he's brain dead.

But the seven days altimatum has passed. What are they waiting for?
ND ko DN ni

olabukola:

But the seven days altimatum has passed. What are they waiting for?
ND ko DN ni

Awon ODE. MUMUSCO.

Christian militants For your information, Sheik Khalid Abubakar Aliyu of JNI, christians don't do militancy, unlike you muslims, christians don't fight for their God. Christians believe that the battle is the lord's. Their God fight for them and not the other way round. It is you people that go on a bombing spree in the name of fighting for your Allah. It is hightime JNI stopped all that media propaganda and misinformation.

gregg2:

Christian militants For your information, Sheik Khalid Abubakar Aliyu of JNI, christians don't do militancy, unlike you muslims, christians don't fight for their God. Christians believe that the battle is the lord's. Their God fight for them and not the other way round. It is you people that go on a bombing spree in the name of fighting for your Allah. It is hightime JNI stopped all that media propaganda and misinformation.

Tell that to the ND group adovocating a xtian champion via,plateau xtian militias and the Kaduna-south xtian militia.While you at it, has it occured to you that after much the countries that preach peace and love seem to be the must armed!!! Freedom yet they are all over poke nosing in other peoples affair.Tell me how come CAN presido is suggesting a free for all armed population yet he believes God fights his battle.Keep fooling yourself with that nonsense.You think the arms are for planting cassava.Abi for distributing love?

haka_nai:

Tell that to the ND group adovocating a xtian champion via,plateau xtian militias and the Kaduna-south xtian militia.While you at it, has it occured to you that after much the countries that preach peace and love seem to be the must armed!!! Freedom yet they are all over poke nosing in other peoples affair.Tell me how come CAN presido is suggesting a free for all armed population yet he believes God fights his battle.Keep fooling yourself with that nonsense.You think the arms are for planting cassava.Abi for distributing love?

tHEY are definitely for distributing love.

Akanbi_edu:

tHEY are definitely for distributing love.

Ever heard of tough love ?

What Oritsejafor said was out of line to be honest, even more considering the kind of sensitive position he occupies. But then again the situation we find ourselves is one that would turn a gentle man into a warrior.
I think he was referring to ownership of weapons to serve as deterrence rather than to be used on people.

The threats against Muslims in Delta are thoroughly condemnable. However, it points to the continuous segregation of the country along ethnic lines with religion used as a political tool. That is the biggest miscalculation of Northern power mongers and one that could plunge the nation into the abyss.
Aside from the employment of religion as a tool, we also have the most unrefined core-Northern proponents of bigotry regularly dish out threats to Niger Deltans, that they will be dealt with. Dealt with for what, for suffering for 50 years?
The mind of the average Niger Deltan is alive, under siege and alert to oppression; we are ready and prepared to battle any comers. In that sense, boko haram is the worst of political tools to have been let loose on Nigerians, because some feel that having a Niger Deltan in power will burst the corruption they feed on in the oil sector forever.

The pics below are off Oloibiri where Nigeria's first commercial oil well is located. Compare that place with Abuja and ask why any core-Northerner has the right to issue threats against ND people as if they are slaves.



Nigeria's first oil well.

Beaf:

The threats against Muslims in Delta are thoroughly condemnable. The pics below are off Oloibiri where Nigeria's first commercial oil well is located. Compare that place with Abuja and ask why any core-Northerner has the right to issue threats against ND people as if they are slaves.

Nigeria's first oil well.

You spoilt your otherwise reasonable comments with the bolded text above. Stop lumping all "core Northerners" into the same stereotypical and deplorable bucket and we may begin to take you seriously. You are better off thinking like a nationalist.

ndu_chucks:

You spoilt your otherwise reasonable comments with the bolded text above. Stop lumping all "core Northerners" into the same stereotypical and deplorable bucket and we may begin to take you seriously. You are better off thinking like a nationalist.

You will find that I did not lump all core-Northerners together. Read it again, bruv.
. . .Except you mean I shouldn't mention "core-Northern."