Halt, halt!! and at the nick of time, an innocent man was saved from the stake. An intriguing scene from the book, ‘coup’ by Kalu Okpi-a Longman Macmillan pacesetter, one I read with gusto in the early 90’s. In one week of hostility between the Nigerian army and Niger Delta insurgents, there’s being no halt, its being presto, bedlam; anything from anarchy to gore, 5 communities in Warri, Delta state sacked in one week of clashes.

But wait a minute, everything is in the applecart but as usual there’s been no official statistics of causalities. Just like we all had to hear firsthand from CNN and BBC, that former Nigerian despot Sanni Abacha had died in the hands of Indian prostitutes, MEND and Amnesty, this time around are the purveyors of information. MEND puts the number of dead civilians at a 1000, Amnesty is a little diplomatic preferring to say hundreds are feared dead. Hostilities have subsided but the images beamed on local TV stations aren’t the burning embers of clandestine dingy holding camps of the militants in the creeks and mangrove forests, rather it is of families cringing for dear lives in bushes, bungalow dwellings destroyed by heavy military shelling. The Military glibly parading its spoils of war; showed several ammunition it had seized from the militants claiming it had in its possession a warehouse of insurgents armoury but was shy in announcing eleven soldiers were missing. MEND provided the answer to the JTF’s enquiry hours earlier saying it had killed 12 soldiers in an ambush the night before.http://connectafrica./2009/05/23/niger-delta-crisis-1-native-equals-9-barrels-of-oil/

That estimation is very cheap. 9 Barrels ke ?

why should deltan's laying down their life's for us all to enjoy. we are using what is their's without saying thanks to them instead we turn and kill them in mass,starting from the days of babangida to abacha to obasanjo now yaradua. this is not biafran's we hated so much and we come against them with foriegn machineries.what kills a mighty is not big things but little things. Can't S.E & S.W join S.S now and stop the notherner's from humiliating southerner's. Nothern nigeria would have be a country of its own if they could find oil in their soil. pls lets come close and help our brother's S.S in their moment of sorrow. never say "no" we once said "no" to S.E and they paid heavily, today we are saying "no" to S.S and they r sheding their blood,maybe tomorow S.W will be next,who know's what will be the tragedy. but it is funny to say that hausa's is our leader's, it is even insaultive for us to present hausa man as our leader to international world. anyway we may underand later not today.

yeah unfortunately very cheap