Oil Pipelines Dynamited in the Niger Delta

My views are striaght from the heart and the solution is there for everyone to see help the niger delta people empower them with the basic infrastructre and you will be surprise what they will do.
They are a peace loving people who have being oppressed.
They need employment,good roads,spillage control,health facilities,education grants and community development.
Government iniciatives on developments policies and government attitude to there plight.
A round table discussion with the stakeholders not old politicians and party members but every member of the niger delta a refrerandumshould take place.

You can't have "employment,good roads,spillage control,health facilities,education grants and community development" when your youths are busy kidnapping innocent workers and blowing up oil pipelines.  Who will want to invest in such a volatile place apart from the oil companies?

Omon'Oba, you for just finish that Warri gist now, ehn. Let me help you:

Warri is a war zone, abi? There are human skulls and bones and skeletons of the dead all over the place - sounds nice, ehn......All the buildings in the town have been ravaged and burnt down by rampaging youths etc etc. But the Warri refinery, which supplies refined products to Benin depot at Ikpoba Hill and other parts of the country is well secured. Because of the problems in the area, there's no employment, no investments, no port activities, in short, NOTHING in the place.

Omon, that should sound very sweet to your ears. I believe you'D be thinking: If only Warri and Benin could just swap locations. Y'know, Bini people should come here and Warri people should just go over to the dry and arid Benin. So that you can have a bite of the oil booty! abi? O.Y.O to you.

Now, back to the issue at hand:

I did not know that some people will still have the mind to reply in the negative to the incisive, thought provoking, emotionally charged and revealing analysis of the Niger Delta problem by Mr. Reuben Abati.

Owo, Conscience, other people of goodwill on this forum, wetin we fit do again?

The people of the Niger Delta have been told time and again to be patient, to dialogue, to become 'mumu' in their own land, while thieves from other places rape their lands. The FG and her collaborators wants to milk the lands dry and then leave with their booty when they are done. Since 1958 to date - some 48 years ago, with the attendant billions and zillions of barrels of crude taken from our lands, we only have poverty, as in, abject poverty to show for such huge volumes. No good roads, no potable water, stereotype development commissions, arrangee governments, polluted waters, lands and air etc etc for 48 years. And some people still want us to dialogue!

The other day I went to Abeokuta to see my sisters. I had to drive through the lonely Abeokuta-Sagamu road to get to my destination. I was surprised to see that the lonely road had been dualised, and not just that, there's this lush green trees and lights planted and installed respectively, from the Sagamu end, all the way to Abeokuta. I watched in awe at the splendor of it all.

But the only road linking the three important states of Bayelsa, Rivers and Delta - the East-West road, is an eyesore even as I write this posting. The road is littered with potholes, death traps and gullies. What's worst, it's a single carriageway! A very busy road like that is a single carriageway in this day and age. This is the road that links all the states where the national cake is being baked. And someone wants my people to dialogue. What are we going to discuss again that have not been discussed?, ehn, what?? Dialogue my foot!!

If we do not act now, our children will ask us one day what we did in the face of this rape on our future. What do Omon and his ilks wants us to tell them? That we went to a round table and we were given roasted chickens and pork from Ota farms to eat and then dialogue? Definitely an emphatic NO! is my answer.     

@ Ono... only the blind and willingly ignorant do not understand the issues and the possible solutions.

please voice your opinion and don't make any threats, i believe in the corporate existence of Nigeria

Boro,
Erm, er, No threats for now, please. I know how it feels too. Yes, it's sad that we're being subjected to this kind of treatment, but these things will be addressed very soon. In fact, they are being addressed as I write. The evildoers will not go unpunished. They will vomit all they've stolen over the years.

Just leave them. No threats please.