MEND Attacks Lagos

or would become another congo with paramilitaries popping up everywhere

What a waste, that You find joy in a violent solution to the grievance of MEND and the people of Niger Delta.   

I did not make wrong assumptions of your comment. . .I stated the obvious.  You found it hard to conceal your desire for a destructive end. 

If this is true then it is commendable.how could fg be shifting oil economy to lagos from niger delta?this is the 1st real hit.i never supported mend becos they were killing and destroying their own area.at least they've struck one of the enemy targets.remaining otta,abuja,kaduna and kano.

You have listed zones which by tradition are retaliatory to external attacks.  How do you envision this will play out?

If the retaliatory attacks are once again aimed at igbos it might lead to  repeat of history. Remember japanese pearl harbour attack.

these mend boys are feeling themselves too much sef. 
this is the only reason to miss those days of Abacha.

Is it now that you are knowing?Miss abacha indeed!

Amnesty, amnesty, where art thou

Not exactly sure what any of these got to do with the Igbos

looks like folks can't talk about these issues without mentioning the Igbos.

for those calling for war against MEND in the hope that it can resolve anything. This is 2009 and not 1967.
In this day and age the British and the Russians will not openly side injustice without having to pay for it.
The UN will not sit back and do nothing or Say nothing
The world will know the truth about what is going on.

The reason nobody is truly talking about Niger-Delta is because the world thinks it's an internal rift that can be taken care of if ignored. If it goes into a full blown civil war, the world will take sides and most importantly it will be based on what is seen as just.

Maybe Nigerians will explain to the world what is just about the happenings in the Niger-Delta.

Mike,

Good talk!  It amazes me how the mention of any small scale chaos anywhere in the country is automatically translated into a Biafran aggression.  I have said it many times. . .Biafra is realizable for those that want it, and in fact it is the right thing for the Igbos to do. . to get their own sovereingty, but not in defiance of wisdom and definitely not by war or violence.

A conglomeration of oil companies have communicated to the outside world that MEND is a terrorist group. . . these are powerful corporations that fund covert operations against governments adversarial to their exploration interests.  Politically, that is not a good label on MEND.  It is a false and cruel categorization but that's how they operate.  Now, some inept Igbos in here are hoping that MEND's actions in Lagos and elsewhere will succeed and lay the ground for MASSOB to pounce.  Well, how do you think the globally powerful and influence wielding oil companies will label MASSOB?  Once MASSOB is viewed as a terrorist group, then you loose political support globally.

Think before you act and look before you jump!

No knowledgeable person thinks that Mend is a terrorist group. It is clear that their interests go beyond petty terrorizing and is an actual struggle to achieve a very simple objective. If the Nigerian state even had an iota of intelligence they could have negotiated their way out of this by making certain concessions. The 3 billion dollars that went to strengthen security in the Niger Delta two years ago could have been used for development. Instead of being embezzled, and they wonder why Mend grows stronger. If you were captured by Mend you will most likely get out alive, unless the JTF tries to mount a rescue operation in which case you are certainly dead. This is men against boys. This situation could have been contained two years ago but the shear incompetence of Nigeria fanned the flames. The Nigerian Security Apparatus has no idea on how to deal with this problem, and unless they want to bring in more Israelis, Americans, Brits, and Dutch they will not defeat Mend militarily, All these idiots know is ethnic cleansing. And with Oil discovered off of Ghana and a relatively stable Angola no one wants to stick their head out for this boondoggle. Again anyone who thinks that Mend is a terrorist group is seriously misinformed or are part and parcel invested in the Nigerian Kleptocrazy(sic)  

True. . . unfortunately when these oil companies talk, Leaders around the world listen, knowledgable or not. . . and their talk is not of truth but of evil propaganda.

Let's not talk about the IMF or the Impact of colonialism which left behind extrapolative institutions meant to ferry out the resources of the country out of the country instead of setting up institutions that benefited the people. Let's not talk about the idiots who listened to the neo-liberal conservatives at the IMF and Worldbank who foster this false idea of a totally free market without a helping hand to advance development. If these institutions believed in it so much then why hasn't their main backers applied those ideas to their own nations? What economic sense does it make to keep subsidizing industries that aren't profitable such as farming in the west, and recently the auto industry, banking sector, et cetera when cheaper products would be gain by opening them "nekkid" ---without subsidies-- to competition? Because it leads to a loss of jobs and to capital flight. China allows foreign companies to operate within its borders but with a 50 percent stake in those companies and they use those funds to support their homegrown companies that compete with the foreign ones. That simple concept of allowing FDI with limiting rules that actually benefits your own country hasn't reached many African countries and yet it is so logical and simple as to be astounding. No, let's not talk of these things not because they are painful but because we could talk for eternity about them.

This happened during the Bush/Blair Regime. Its less likely to happen in this present day. The Brits are already questioning the presence in Afghan and will careless of what Chevron or Shell say about MEND.