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Tragedy Of An Unthinking Agitation: The Case Of The Niger-delta Militants by faaz24: 11:12pm On Sep 11, 2016 |
By Austin Emaduku http://saharareporters.com/2016/09/11/tragedy-unthinking-agitation-case-niger-delta-militants-austin-emaduku 42 Likes 4 Shares
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Re: Tragedy Of An Unthinking Agitation: The Case Of The Niger-delta Militants by agwom(m): 11:14pm On Sep 11, 2016 |
hmmm 2 Likes |
Re: Tragedy Of An Unthinking Agitation: The Case Of The Niger-delta Militants by Businessideas: 12:18am On Sep 12, 2016 |
Nice write up. I hope they heed your advice before they all get assassinated by the security intelligence operatives. Mark jogged on Lekki -Ikoyi bridge not Eko bridge because Eko bridge is far longer and busier for the comfort of joggers . 9 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Tragedy Of An Unthinking Agitation: The Case Of The Niger-delta Militants by jacksonPolloc(m): 12:27am On Sep 12, 2016 |
are u ssss....man rethink 1 Like |
Re: Tragedy Of An Unthinking Agitation: The Case Of The Niger-delta Militants by yorubasmustprosper(f): 12:39am On Sep 12, 2016 |
Catering, bricklayer, technician, capentery, welders etc and the major oil workers and owners of all blocks are who? The whites and the Hausa-Fulani.. What a thinking... Clap for yourselves. When a cornered coward writes, it reeks of fear.. 35 Likes 4 Shares |
Re: Tragedy Of An Unthinking Agitation: The Case Of The Niger-delta Militants by obailala(m): 1:10am On Sep 12, 2016 |
It's a sad story... When the attack dogs have no more opponents to munch, they turn around on the children of their own masters and consume them. This aptly explains the case of 'deve' in warri which started with foreigners who owned companies, and then non-indigenes owning companies and then non-indigenes just building personal houses... When it persisted, people who should have been in position to talk to the youths or halt the retrogressive trend remained mute. It was typical to hear patronising statements like "the youths are angry cos they have no jobs" .. The monster was allowed to grow unchecked until the same 'youths' began forcefully demanding 'deve' from even indigenes and even the government wasnt spared. Government wants to build a road or a hospital, it would be required to pay 'deve' first before contractors are allowed on site. I remember the ugly saga when Ibori wanted to construct the Warri city stadium, he vehemently refused to pay the rampaging youths and had to litter the project site with a multitude of mobile policemen till the job was completed. Such is the foolishness that crippled the town; recently even shoprite was attacked and vandalised and looted by some lazy 'youths'... Everything in the town is dead presently, numerous companies have fled and even the NPA seaport was crippled by this exact attitude. For a company like Shell to leave, it was the nail on the coffin of Warri as a 'formerly' booming economic town. But anyway, the mental power of the set of youths we have today doesnt go beyond making claims like "Hausas and Yorubas are responsible for the flight of industries from the niger delta.... in fact we must punish buhari by destroying further and chasing away more investments." Perhaps the youths who vandalised delta mall / shoprite were also fighting injustice against buhari even as some educated ones joined and cheered on. Meanwhile, some persons bitten by this mumu bug have already arrived the thread with the mumu virus. 71 Likes 7 Shares |
Re: Tragedy Of An Unthinking Agitation: The Case Of The Niger-delta Militants by QuotaSystem: 7:35am On Sep 12, 2016 |
How true, but do the criminal supporters have the capacity to reflect on the destruction they are inflicting on themselves and their future? They have been blinded with hatred for the North so much that they are willing to bury themselves just to spite the North. The irony is that all this destruction and retrogression in the ND is taking place while the North and SW are aggressively pursuing infrastructural development and self sufficiency. Oh well, they will lie on their beds the way they have laid them. 30 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Tragedy Of An Unthinking Agitation: The Case Of The Niger-delta Militants by amagunnerfan: 8:25am On Sep 12, 2016 |
Very good article. You will find out that those that will disagree are mostly not from nor for the Niger Delta. They put other people's matter on their head like no tomorrow. I have said it before and will say it again, the ND is shooting herself on the foot. Soon and I mean very soon Nigeria's economy will be massively diversified and they will find out that the oil they kept shouting our oyel will be less relevant while they have zero investment in their lands. And you can't blame the FG for that. You can't keep sabotaging the economy and expect investment in your land. The entitlement mentality got you lot into this shiit. When you stopped being so entitled, the nonsense will stop as well. 32 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Tragedy Of An Unthinking Agitation: The Case Of The Niger-delta Militants by Zico5(m): 8:26am On Sep 12, 2016 |
Ok |
Re: Tragedy Of An Unthinking Agitation: The Case Of The Niger-delta Militants by Poorboy: 8:34am On Sep 12, 2016 |
Hmmmm |
Re: Tragedy Of An Unthinking Agitation: The Case Of The Niger-delta Militants by foladara777(m): 8:35am On Sep 12, 2016 |
Itz easy to destroy everything out of anger but d consequences usually backfire on the agitators.... Datz why I always pity d ones who support NDA et all, ur land is getting destroyed and degraded and u are cheering d perpetrators on.... When u have to explain to your children why they lead substandard lives, u will remember when u were agitators 19 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Tragedy Of An Unthinking Agitation: The Case Of The Niger-delta Militants by emmanuelpopson(m): 8:37am On Sep 12, 2016 |
they wouldn't listen ... Destruction is in their blood. 8 Likes |
Re: Tragedy Of An Unthinking Agitation: The Case Of The Niger-delta Militants by SmartMugu: 8:37am On Sep 12, 2016 |
Perfect and sensible writeup. Unfortunately, the audience this is intended for might not see any sense in it. As mentioned in the article, certain folks are already buried with the mentality of getting easy money from kidnappings, vandalism etc. Folks like that will rarely apply for jobs or make efforts to be self-employed, yet complain of hunger and marginalization. 25 Likes |
Re: Tragedy Of An Unthinking Agitation: The Case Of The Niger-delta Militants by VIPERVENOM(m): 8:40am On Sep 12, 2016 |
There is on the rise, a culture of laziness and self-destruct that has permeated and continues to bedevil the Niger Delta region, especially Delta State. That's it. Gov Prickson said it before. Wat most ND youths want is just sit at home and wait for alert to enter their fone. And most of them think like this blockhead yorubasmustprosper:two words for them ............. 18 Likes
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Re: Tragedy Of An Unthinking Agitation: The Case Of The Niger-delta Militants by JeffreyJamez(m): 8:44am On Sep 12, 2016 |
yorubasmustprosper: ...and what is wrong with those jobs you mentioned?.... Is it not this same jobs many Nigerians use in enriching themselves overseas?.... Is it everybody that will be an oil worker?...mchew 32 Likes |
Re: Tragedy Of An Unthinking Agitation: The Case Of The Niger-delta Militants by Ijaya123: 8:44am On Sep 12, 2016 |
As they lay their bed, so shall they lie on it. 3 Likes |
Re: Tragedy Of An Unthinking Agitation: The Case Of The Niger-delta Militants by Ijaya123: 8:46am On Sep 12, 2016 |
yorubasmustprosper: Do you know how many Nigerians do those works overseas? Continues on your path of destruction. As you lay your bed, so you lie on it. 26 Likes |
Re: Tragedy Of An Unthinking Agitation: The Case Of The Niger-delta Militants by vRendoh(m): 8:47am On Sep 12, 2016 |
>...because there were many wafis laboos in the oil companies then does not make things right. How many of the people where staff of the companies? what where the state of social amenities in warri even up till now? Broda, i hear you sha! 1 Like |
Re: Tragedy Of An Unthinking Agitation: The Case Of The Niger-delta Militants by NigerDeltan(m): 8:47am On Sep 12, 2016 |
Trash... I repeat Trashhhhhhhhh 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Tragedy Of An Unthinking Agitation: The Case Of The Niger-delta Militants by antispexish(m): 8:52am On Sep 12, 2016 |
Only a few individuals benefit from militancy, often times the community never recovers for generations. 9 Likes |
Re: Tragedy Of An Unthinking Agitation: The Case Of The Niger-delta Militants by signz: 8:53am On Sep 12, 2016 |
Warri will still get back to its glory days and so will other Niger delta states. They'll rise from the ashes better than they were because soon that area will be the Petrochemical Capital of Africa. Let's do the right things first. For starters make them part owners of the resources found in their locality. Pass original PIB ( 10% to host communities ). Whenever it's time for oil license Or better still, let them have control over their resources. 5 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Tragedy Of An Unthinking Agitation: The Case Of The Niger-delta Militants by newbornmacho(m): 8:55am On Sep 12, 2016 |
You may as well extend your memory and nistalgia to the time when whites ruled Nigeria and things "worked" . you wrote this lengthy epistle with no mention of the causes of militancy, you compare lagos a place the represents the conspiracy against the Niger delta with warri a place that has suffered and is still suffering at the hands of hausa-fulani feudalists and their Yoruba accomplices, and you expect to be taken seriously. You want the owners of the oil to be content with welding and catering and even prostitution while the thieves cart away everything to their regions? Clap for yourself. Militancy was caused by marginalization and will continue until redress is made. 6 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Tragedy Of An Unthinking Agitation: The Case Of The Niger-delta Militants by Chiznonso: 8:58am On Sep 12, 2016 |
Don't mind the Writer, He was referring to when the Niger Deltans were earning peanuts from their God given Natural Resource when they were earning 1% derivation, he's even glorifying the fact that Niger Delta Girls were prostituting to earn a share of the revenue of their own resources. He should be ashamed. It's was because of Militancy that an Ijaw man become the President of Nigeria, without the agitation, Obasanjo would neva have consider a South Southerner for Vice President. They understand Nigerian Government very well, they know that Militancy is the only language the Government understands 5 Likes |
Re: Tragedy Of An Unthinking Agitation: The Case Of The Niger-delta Militants by wristbangle: 9:00am On Sep 12, 2016 |
Well analysed and thoroughly written. For Investors to come to a particular region to invest, they consider the security situation, economic visibility, access to infra structural development and others which currently the SS regions are seriously lacking due to vandalism except some parts of rivers, Akwa Ibom, cross rivers and Edo. 5 Likes |
Re: Tragedy Of An Unthinking Agitation: The Case Of The Niger-delta Militants by Chiznonso: 9:01am On Sep 12, 2016 |
Ijaya123: Aren't the overseas Nigerians paid in dollars and pounds at minimum wage ? Can U compare a Manual Labourer in Nigeria to the ones in USA. 2 Likes |
Re: Tragedy Of An Unthinking Agitation: The Case Of The Niger-delta Militants by Nobody: 9:02am On Sep 12, 2016 |
Look at this militant,you can go back to the creeks na,one day you will die miserably and the world will continued to exist,if that is the only thing you pick from the whole article. yorubasmustprosper: 9 Likes |
Re: Tragedy Of An Unthinking Agitation: The Case Of The Niger-delta Militants by SuperS1Panther: 9:03am On Sep 12, 2016 |
The writer is sick. He must be either a Yoruba man or Hausa /Fulani. They used our money to build Lagos and Abuja, all the oil wells were allocated to Northerners and Yorubas, we are being marginalised, Nigeria is treating us like 2nd class citizen, we will make Nigeria ungovernable, we will avenge the defeat of our son, Saro Wiwa was peaceful and he was killed, militancy and violence is the only language Nigerian Govt understands and other blablablablablas. Please continue with your militancy, let more companies relocate to SW. That is the koko for me jare. Even their son Dokubo could not even invest there, how do you want foreign or local investors to? You ate your future in the past by collecting Deve, kidnapping all kidnappables, blowing everything at sight. Welcome to the future you created with your own hand, with the tacit support of your elders 10 Likes |
Re: Tragedy Of An Unthinking Agitation: The Case Of The Niger-delta Militants by Chiznonso: 9:03am On Sep 12, 2016 |
Niger Delta has 37bn and 182trn of oil and gas respectively. No matter the investors will keep investing, they have no choice. 3 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Tragedy Of An Unthinking Agitation: The Case Of The Niger-delta Militants by Clemsworld(m): 9:04am On Sep 12, 2016 |
Greed in Nigeria is too much. Niger Delta want to enjoy alone. 1 Like |
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