Movement For The Emancipation Of The Niger Delta (MEND)

No facts are available anywhere except in the creeks.
Care to go there?

Owo - thanks for the advice. Mariory - thanks for the links. I have found a bit more about this organisation, and they hold more of menace than any of the ones we unreservedly seem to revile or accuse of secession.

You'd better listen to Owo and go to the creeks to see them 

It seems as if a lot of blood is going to be shed in the Niger Delta this year.  Too bad.

I hope Uncle Sam will not bite more than he can chew this time. The fear of Iraq and Vietnam is the begining of wisdom.

We all know that part of the reason the Niger Delta is so backwards in infrastructural development is because the central government - the FG, wants it so. Why? So that the people in the area will not see the light of the day and know what is happening around them.

One of my friends who's currently working in the oil comapny told me recently, how peaceful the creeks used to be in the early 80's and late 70's. He said the Ijaw women used to marvel at the way these ''offshore'' people go into the creeks. When they get back from doing some work on the wells in the creeks, it's these Ijaw women and men, poor fishermen, that will take them in and give them peppersoup to eat and warm their bodies.

These Ijaw people attended to these people as their own kith and kins - with a pure heart and a simple mind, untill the day the truth about the activities of these folks were made known.   

These are inflammatory comments.  You will not gain anything by destroying an industry that 150 million people depend upon.  Investment is what makes a town to develop (e.g. look at Lagos) and one factor that affects investment is the security of the area.

Look, if Niger Delta is so peaceful that all the expatriates want to settle there do you think it will not develop?  Saying, "I want to profit at the expense of someone else" doesn't lead to progress in politics.  The Niger Deltans cannot say "we want to develop our community by throwing 100 million or more other people into abject suffering" and expect that to open.   

You have to have a vision that is profitable to all parties concerned, and you have to have leaders that can articulate that vision and get popular support for it among even those that are not Niger Deltans.  We have Nigerian leaders going to the US to ask people to come and invest in Nigeria, so why don't we have Niger Deltas in Lagos asking their Igbo brothers to come and invest in their creeks?

A quick reminder, the happenings in the recent past (due to violence amongst the host communities in Warri saw most foreign and local companies relocating away from the town, thus causing mass migration of people and commercial activities. Warri leaders are now pracctically begging compnaies and pple to return. But guess what, no one is will to return back there.

This should make the MEND hoodlums to realize that their aims cannot be achieved through violent attacks and kidnappings. I just pray the they don't end up being Movement for the Extinction of the Niger Delta.

Port Harcourt is almost 5 times more expensive to reside in compared to Warri, yet oil companies and oil workers prefer PH to warri. The simple reason is that PH is by far relatively more peaceful.

So my Niger Delta brothers, make una take to those MEND boys o! Baba Iyabo can be deadly!!

Mingiix, I really think you shouldn't have been taken off that medication.  You are ranting again, buddy, and your blood pressure is getting dangerously high.  Look in the mirror at those bulging, bloodshot eyes. Can't you see you are hurting yourself and upsetting other patients ? 

Not to worry,  that polite nurse is on the way to your ward with a nice warm strait jacket, some sedatives and a team of muscle-men in white coats to help you get dressed, so quickly put back your dentures or you might offend them.  This is all for your own good Mingiix, and rest assured you really will be grateful some day.

@ Jakumo,

Oh my god, that was mean but funny as hell.

Thanks Jakumo! I just had my medication
1.chlorpromazine 900mg qds x 5/7
2.Lorazepam 4omg bds x 1/52
3.lisinopril 5mg stat
4.jakumodehyde 4kg prn

Guess what? I am now having a  major auditory hallucinatory side effect from the 4th drug.

The Voice? "Kill jakumo  Kill jakumo  Kill jakumo  Kill jakumo  Kill jakumo  Kill jakumo  Kill jakumo "

Mingiix
I guess I now understand the what sort of Medication the MEND guys are taking, 

Ono
You better stop deceiving youself. The fact that I may not be from the 9ja delta doe not mean that I'm not aware of what is happening there. Take a look at your warri, are u not worried that it's fast becoming a ghost town, ? Warri is about the only major town in Nigeria where you have heavily armed Police and Soldiers guarding the entrance to and exit from the town. My friend u beta wise up o!

Ono,
Hmmm, I can understand the fact that you Guv is try his best. But my dear, PH is lighyears ahead of Warri. At least I can sleep with both eyes closed in PH. If I try am for warri, u can make your own conclusions. I know Warri perhaps much more than u can ever imagine.

Travelling from PH all the way to Benin, u will always have the greatest headache as soon as you cross the border from Bayelsa to Delta state, Headache starts to subside once you cros the delta Edo border,
Have you ever asked urself why, ? Nna don't blame it on the police alone o! your MEND hoodloms constitute the greatest havoc and nuisance on the roads,

I thot u were bragging about warri being brought back to life. My friend open ya eyes o! If I were in your shoes I'll talk to those MEND brothers of your to please come to their senses,

U GUYS ARE VERY GREEDY TO MY UNDERSTANDING:
U TALK AS IF THE PEOPEL IN NIGER DELTA STARTED ALL THIS HAVE FORGOTTEN WHAT IS CALLED INITIATIVE TO INVEST.U SAY TH0SE BOYS ARE THE CAUSE OF THE PROBLEM WELL TAKE YOUR FAMILY TO LEAVE IN GBAMARATU OR WARRI CREEK AND SEE IF YOUR FAMILY WILL NOT FALL SICK.THE MOSQUITOES YOU HAVE IN LAGOS A LEARNING TO THE ONCE IN NIGER DELTA THOSE ONE HAVE MASTER DEGREE IN SUCKING.
IF YOUR GOVERNMENT IS SINCERE THEY IMMEDIATELY THEY WOULD HAVE ADDRESSED THIS ISSUE ONCE AND FOR ALL BUT I HAVE COME TO REALISE THAT THEY IS A CONSPIRACY BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT AND THE MULTIUNIATIONAL COMPANIES TO TURN A BLIND EYE TO ALL THIS.WHY DO U THINK SHELL DOES NOT HAVE STAFFS THE EMPLOY CONTRACT STAFFS BECAUSE THEY KNOW THIS WILL HAPPEN SOMEDAY AND TRUST ME THIS IS JUST THE BEGING WAIT FOR THE UHROBO AND THE ISHEKERI TO JOIN THE IJAW STRUGGLE THEN YOU KNOW THERE IS WAHALA IN YOU COUNTRY NIGERIA