MEND Threatens To Blow Up The 3rd Mainland Bridge

run to where?

Politicians are thesame all over, its a human factor.

Do we suggest that security forces be placed on stand by around the bridge or the waters?

I told you guys yday-we don't have efficient security. and like I said before they made their threat public, they had already planted the explosives under water by the pillers using their divers

Bigjay has been banned for his genocidal tendencies. 
Once again, it's idiotic to consider killing innocent Niger Deltans.

Seun
Well i wont say he did not deserve it

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MEND is a criminal organisation and they are not fighting for the ND, They're fighting for their own belly just like the rest. How is bombing a bridge or the NNPC filling station that was bombed in PH helping the ND's cause.

The kidnapping has not even helped the cause, now every di** and harry is out there trying to kidnap everyone that has the slightest affiliation to politics or oil companies.

This is disgraceful.

Our Security has failed us, but again what hasn't.

Yar'adua's govt must step up to this security threat. Our security agencies need a major overhauling in terms of training, infrastructure, arms, salary and entitlements.

The way ahead is two folds - Security and Dialogue.

Egbon seun you give me the creeps! contributors should be analytical and objective before talking. I believe our aim here is to find a way out to better this nation of ours, perhaps we should us e this opportunity to take look at the Nigerian project and our leaders. MEND has a cause but they are moving out of reason. Nigerians will never support destroying our infrastructure

MEND has no course.
The truth is much deeper than you think.

I agree that these groups brought the suffering to the lime light but the whole procedure is wrong.

Meanwhile do you know that our so called elders aided the situation for sometime now. During the military regime, a few niger deltans were profiting while the others suffered and died.

Look at the governors since 1999. They have enriched themselves with the billions allocated to the states. What do they have to show for it? Nothing.

All these groups are fighting for their own bellies. The leaders are oil bonkers or profit in other ways. If they're really fighting for the people common sense would have told them to stop by now and ensue peace and development.

What has bombing a bridge in Lagos got to do with ND? That is terrorism and murder.

they berra arrest them before they blow it. We no go gree lailai if dey blow even the unused bridge in Lagos.
Whatever happened to the NigerBridge. can't that one be blown?

Let us face the facts. MEND or whatever they are called know where the monies approved for the regions over the years have gone, and that is that these funds are in the coffers of their sponsors. Let me sound a note of warning here, if we ever hear talk of even thinking of blowing up the third mainland bridge, we will help them solve their problems and that is deal with their sponsors' interests in Nigeria and overseas, their sponsors themselves and then, teach the MEND guys the lessons that their elders didnt teach them. Being fishermen, they would know that a silent river runs deep.

Jerie, I thot you will say being Oil landlords? you prefer to call them fishermen, keeping silent about the oil that is the crux of this discourse. Thats how the Nigerian govt sees the peoples of the ND-fishermen and not oil land lords-no wonder there is no respect and development.-you are a typical Nigerian-if e no concern me, make e scatter

We don't need these people to "bring the suffering to the limelight".  That is a job for the media, not armed 'youths'!
Every terrorist has a 'cause' he pays lip service to.  Every criminal has a 'reason' for his crime.  But it's all bullshit.

so willywilly, that justifies blowing up the 3rd mainland bride

why can't they just hang that leader of theirs, even if he's making an empty threat, for the mere fact that he even concieved such in his heart, then he is worse than OsamaBin Laden.

Negotiation with terrorist doesn't work. so that one is out of the question.

Those MEND guys are just jobless and lazy dare-devils, nothing will ever please them.  Even if Shell or the FG provides them with 1,000,000,000 job opportunities, how many of them will be qualified to work in those places, because you don't get a good job by carrying sophisticated amunitions. Those people should jst shut their mouth, and pray that nothings happens to that bridge, because if anything as little as a crack shows on that bridge, then they have asked for another civil war.  

All it takes to get the attention of a media is a good PR specialist.  A PR specialist much cheaper than a bomb!

If all the money they are using to buy arms and cause unrest was used to raise awareness (e.g. making movies, documentaries, etc) build infrastructure, the people of the Niger Delta will be much happier for it.  Right now they are just driving investors away from the region so that they can continue to have a 'reason' to steal and kill.

People like Ken Saro Wiwa raised a lot of awareness about the Niger Delta problem without killing anybody.

Yet he was killed. Where in the world has documentries and films brought the needed change and development that the ND needs.MEND and every one knew that sarowiwa was killed.
I do not subscribe to blowing up bridge, but I do agree with legitimate agitation of the ND youths

Seun
Is it not the same politicians that gave them the means to buy the arms?

Is there a thread for the solution to the ND issue? Maybe thats where we ought to be at this point.

willy
Thats a lie from the pit of hell 
Bombing NNPC filling station in PH is clearly an act of terror
This threat of 3rd mainland bridge is terror in the making. It involves innocent people.
MEND is a greedy group fighting for their bellies.
What has MEND done to develop their surroundings?
Instead they spend their money on weapons and drive away investors in the area.

The white guys bring business into the region from hotel to real-estate to night life. With the recent state of events we have that going down the drain. Even shops are suffering from this.

What the do you know about this region? Have you been to Ph or Bayelsa lately?

What example is MEND giving our your teens? - Take up arms and kidnap white folks and ask for huge amounts of money in return?

They have surely learnt that. Now even easterners come all this way to join in the kidnap business.

The white guys have left so now they've turned on politicians and shell workers.

How nice! MEND should be giving an award.
Bloody crap!!!