Kobojunkie:

Isn't it a bit late in the game to start considering that? We started this when we arranged payment for the other terrorist group.

Sam_Ikenna:

So should we continue on that slippery path or should we make a stand?

alj harem:

LOL My brother Ndu-chucks , me ya sa ?

Amnesty is a thing that has changed Nigeria political landscape.

The killing of anyone could be justified simply by advocating for something

MEND killed 20 on independences day, Boko haram took it the the next level

both should be stopped but WE should never support boko haram, because Islam does not preach what they are doing.

Mend still have a more legit cause for their fight than Boko haram

patriot2: The people among MEND who killed innocent civilians were never pardoned, their chief is still prosecuted in South Africa.

patriot2: The people among MEND who killed innocent civilians were never pardoned, their chief is still prosecuted in South Africa.

pzing: Do everything to have peace. It has involved lives and seeking human justice means more blood. Let BH find justice before God for they claim to be working for.

Kobojunkie:

Where were you when we witnessed much the same during MEND so-called war against marginalization, and for greater control over oil resources?

Kobojunkie:

Keep telling yourself that lie!

patriot2:
What are the grievances of boko haram ?
what are their means of protest ?
And once again the people who killed innocent civilians among MEND were denied by the rest of MEND and were never pardoned, they are still facing trial in South Africa you can see the chief of that explosion on trial.

patriot2:
Why don't you just use your google and type (Henry Okah south africa).

Demdem:

Are u insinuating that criminals like Tompolo, general Boyloaf, Ateke etc never killed even military personnels?

Kobojunkie:

Dude, stop trying to mix issues. What is happening in South Africa has little or nothing to do with the activities of MEND as a whole. I cannot for the life of me understand how any person in their right brain would assume that all the killings, kidnappings, and bombings where carried out by OKAH and only OKAH.

Again, keep lying to yourself that you can re-arrange the pieces long after the deed has been done and sealed.

cocoduck: You can not compare mend to bokoharam the former is fighting for their rights. Now tell me what is the latter's right in oil proceeds

patriot2:
First of all I do not think you can equate kidnapping to killing, unless you are really brainless.
I can forgive someone who kidnapped my brother given that my brother comes back in good health, but i will never pardon whoever kills anyone from my family. By the way stop confusing all the explosions, there were only one or two that killed civilians and that were aimed at doing so. The people who did those explosions were never pardoned and their boss is undergoing trial in South Africa.

Kobojunkie:

Fighting for their rights? Really? Their right to monthly pocket money, free trips to study abroad, and Government appointments? Those rights? Cause last I checked, MEND has gotten paid, and continues to get paid, but the situation in the Niger Delta remains exactly the same way it has been since even the Obasanjo days, if not worse.

Kobojunkie:

Fighting for their rights? Really? Their right to monthly pocket money, free trips to study abroad, and Government appointments? Those rights? Cause last I checked, MEND has gotten paid, and continues to get paid, but the situation in the Niger Delta remains exactly the same way it has been since even the Obasanjo days, if not worse.

Kobojunkie:

Well, I don't know. Nigerian Government will do what the Nigerian Government will do. There are already claims that the Government budgets more for paying off terrorists than it does not the Health Sector, so I doubt it matters what I think of the situation.

All I am saying is it is rather meaningless to cry foul at this point. We started this culture of paying off criminals/terrorists, and, over time, some of us have conveniently cooked up reasons for which they could 'legitimize' these actions. However, there remains no rational reason for these payments, worse monthly payments at that, to criminals, from our government.

Kobojunkie:

Fighting for their rights? Really? Their right to monthly pocket money, free trips to study abroad, and Government appointments? Those rights? Cause last I checked, MEND has gotten paid, and continues to get paid, but the situation in the Niger Delta remains exactly the same way it has been since even the Obasanjo days, if not worse.

patriot2: If you believe we started something wrong, shouldn't you be advocating we stopped it rather than expanding it ?

Kobojunkie:

Since people like you suggest what we started was right, I would ask you why you are here advocating that we only apply it to terrorist groups you, and your ilk, are in support of.

patriot2:
First of all I never suggested it was right. It was wrong to give amnesty or money to any one who killed a nigerian soldier. My dad is a colonel and I don't care what cause you are fighting, if you touch my dad then I will destroy your family! But what I am trying to do is show the light, you are using very porous logics to advocate paying terrorists and I am just showing the gigantic holes in your reasoning. Although I think people in Niger Delta have have been exploited and that the derivation is a good move towards justice.

Kobojunkie:

You could have fooled me with your earlier claims that only those who did not kill individuals got amnesty.

Please go sell this mush of yours to someone else. I am done.

Kobojunkie:

Well, I don't know. Nigerian Government will do what the Nigerian Government will do. There are already claims that the Government budgets more for paying off terrorists than it does not the Health Sector, so I doubt it matters what I think of the situation.

All I am saying is it is rather meaningless to cry foul at this point. [size=14pt]We started this culture of paying off criminals/terrorists, and, over time, some of us have conveniently cooked up reasons for which they could 'legitimize' these actions in their own minds.
However, there remains no rational reason for these payments, worse monthly payments at that, to criminals, from our government. [/size]