War In Niger Delta: Mend Threatens Northerners In Oil Industry

I beg to disagree with you MEND has a just course. That is the honest truth. It is just the way they are going about it. Become Kidnapper is not the way to go. I think they should stop that. It make people hate them.

if  MEND  join OPC . The reason is the govt of Nigeria or its military can not face the OPC. because of population. And since ijaw are from ODuduwa or Adumu, OPC is oduduwa people congress. I think OPC have over 100,000 members compare with MEND. The nigeria govt would think twice before sending the military.

I do not believe in violent but the Nigeria govt is not be fair. Displaces women and children is not the solution to northern domination. That why they want the land act change.

Thank you, you've said it better than I did. The problem is with their thought patterns, not the principle of their struggle. Their warped thought pattern has been the issue from time immemorial.

 

Yes ooo 


 In God Graft Oil we Trust 

In the name of Oil Father, and of the Gasoline Son, and of the Federal Allocation Holy Spirit. . . 

Amen.

@PeeDavinci


What do you mean by "Very soon, it will be the igala's turn to pack out, soon, yoruba, and soon after ibo".

Pack out from where, Niger Delta Area or Nigeria as a whole? and what is your basis for saying this?

Please you need to clearify!

If the continuous massacre of Igbos in northern nigeria is the one nigeria you are talking about, then you are lost. Totally lost.

As Nigerians, no matter which part of the country you are from.You have to accept that the way militancy prevails in the Niger Delta should not be acceptable for any civilised country.

Free for all kidnapping, bombing and harrassment in the name of fighting for the people of the Niger Delta is quite sad, and unfortunately the people stand to loose more.

I believe the military should take care of this situation once and for all

Very good that the global economic systems have removed our supplies from the world market equation hence we do not affect oil prices anymore.

Cant we understand that the more we fight amongst ourselves, the more we will suffer? Issues with deregulation are arising because we cannot build refineries. Who in his normal senses would build a refinery in the Niger Delta under the previaling conditions?

Eventually we would start running out of oil and gas in most places, then we will see the big price we have paid as a nation by failing to deal with our problems.

I think the ordinary people living peacefully in their villages should stand up, as they tend to loose more.  They know these militants.

I blame the Past and Present Governments for not doing enough for the people of the Niger Delta.

I also blame the people of the Delta for not controlling and channeling their struggle. Unfortunately everyone from that region is now stigmatised as been a militant. I have a lot of friends and colleagues from the Delta and surely they are not what they are been tagged as. Quite Sad.

How would the Niger Delta be developed if companies cannot provide infrastructure and services without risk to life?

Unfortunately children unborn would suffer the hardest consequence of where we find ourselves now, when they struggle to rewrite the image of their areas, probably then there would be no/less oil and gas to kill over.

The only satisfaction is that eventually we will all face GOD for our actions.

May the souls of all those who have lost their lives in this so called struggle rest in perfect peace.

I am persuaded to imagine that you are under the stupefaction of ''sapele water''. Otherwise you will clear your name by showing me where I discussed Biafra in this topic

Meanwhile at this time, I think Igbos who live in the North should seek alternative livelihoods in the South, especially the South East

Asking for a fair ONE NIGERIA does not equate to seeking for disintegration of the country in any way. I and most Igbos I know are all for one nigeria that will treat her citizens the same.


If you are still talking about one nigeria here, then two words for your comment;
Ridiculously hypocritical.

Mikeansy,

Stop speaking from both sides of your mouth. You are either ''here'' or ''there'', and not in ''both'' places at the same time.

With a body-count now exceeding one thousand in the last 48 hours alone, including, no doubt, many civilian women and children, the first-time use of sustained artillery barrages and coordinated air-strikes by the Nigerian armed forces marks a significant escalation in the hostilities that always simmer in the volatile Niger Delta.    Equally ominous has been the declaration by insurgent militant leaders that a systematic demolition of Nigeria's strategic oil pipeline grid is under way.  Some MAJOR milestones on Nigeria's Road to Hades have been marked with the events currently unfolding in the Niger Delta, and NO part of the country will be spared from suffering "collateral damage",  if the current escalation continues.

For any of the sabre-rattlers who call for war as a "solution" to Nigeria's oil tragedy, now would be a good time to reflect soberly on the deadly paradox of how Nigeria's fate is so hopelessly bound to that of her killing fields, the Niger Delta, that oil-rich maze of creeks and swamps that covers an area five times as large as Viet Nam's Mekong Delta, the scene of horrific and costly jungle warfare engagements between the US Marines and Viet Cong guerrillas decades ago.   With her economic jugular vein bleeding out already from multiple punctures of strategically important fuel refinery supply pipelines criss-crossing the theater of war, Nigeria can little afford a protracted scorched-earth war of attrition against a resourceful, suicidally determined enemy who holds the SUPREME tactical advantage of knowing the war zone terrain far more intimately than the federal forces ever will.

Pyrotechnic displays of artillery and aircraft-delivered ordnance will do little more than decimate small pockets of a very widely dispersed enemy,  but at epic cost in mass civilian deaths, which in turn fills indigenous populations with loathing for federal forces and far greater sympathy for the home-town under-dogs in speedboats, regardless of whether the pistoleros seek money or freedom by way of war.

The Nigerian Military should have gone to war against Cameroun if they think they are strong

you are even dumber than i thought.

Many Yorubas always lost their lives in the north due to RELIGIOUS WARS. Recently, there were claims by Northerners that Christian tend to radiate success which they hated so much.

You even have no idea what is going on in the country, You dont have to post if you have no clue.

Nija deltans have been commiting all sorts recently, now when the JTF shows, they take to their heels.
they cant even act like men. they leave their women, old ppl, sons and daughters behind and run like chickens.

It is obviuos you say something in one post, you say the other in another post.



so you are for One Nigeria and you are totally in support of a section of the one nigeria clambering for resource control
which means they feel Nigeria is a country stealing their resource and you see that as one nigeria

what is the oil was in lagos? will these thugs not shut the hell off and eat the honey with Nigeria
they made it look like it was the labour of their forefather that brought the oil.

The reason the federal Govt is fighting them is cos they have always been treated fairly and they still wont be satisfied.
they go about kidnapping ppl in the area all for money hiding under the pretence of "fighting for the land"
Criminals.

I firmly support the action by the millitary. It's about time that thieving rabble called MEND was curbed.
Why is it fair game for millitants to hijack vessels, kidnap foreigners and kill naval personnel in cold blood yet people rush to condemn the millitary when they make the neccessary response?

MEND have let the media and their vocal, misguided supporters delude them that they are a match for the millitary might of a committed nation, and that propaganda alone will carry the day for them. As we saw last year, in every frontal assault by the Nigerian armed forces, this cabal of thieves have been routed in almost every encounter.

I expect the JTF will take steps to cripple these miscreants and make the delta safe once again.


So you buy into this argument? The MEND forces are concentrated in well known camps, the locations of which are known to the Nigerian army for years now. Push aside any vietnam era imagery of soldiers trudging through thick jungles.
Against helicopter gunships and mortars, millitants firing RPGs, GPMGs  and Ak-47s from speedboats do not stand much of a chance.

MEND have been and will likely always be routed in pitched, open battles in the water. On land, bombardment of their camps pretty much brings the heat to them. And unlike the Iraqi insurgency, the taliban and the Tamil tigers, they lack the religious ideology and fanatical devotion to the cause that could make them a threat even when dispersed and defeated. All they will do is revert back to the stealing, bunkering and kidnapping they have perfected. And we've learnt to live with that.

they shud go after their leaders not FG