Super1Star:
Your past and present Govs are from the West

your past and present Ministers are from the North west

Your past and present legislators are from North East

your ex-President and his uncouth garrulous wife are from North Central.

Your ex- and present militants are from Sambisa Forest

If they are from those areas, the world will agree with you that West and the North underdeveloped Niger Delta.

Meanwhile, the world knows
1. You collect monthly FAAC allocation

2. You collect monthly JAAC allocation.

3. You collect monthly 13% derivation

4. IOCs have CSRs and community projects

5. Amnesty programme for your legalized criminals

6. Min of Niger Delta

7. NDDC - a regional Govt on its own.

Show us what you have achieved with all that 1st.

AfroSisi:
Complaining from Jerusalem to Mecca

AfroSisi:
Complaining from Jerusalem to Mecca

Super1Star:


Show us what you have achieved with all that 1st.

Naija9090:


Afonjas...the problem of Nigeria. Causing trouble, spreading deception and envious of Eastern Region...connives with North to hold them back!

Turakidanjuma:


Why shouldn't they complain of being gang raped by u
you are being fed by their oil when they never ate your cocoa

Nigeria is indeed an unjust contraption

AfroSisi:


Who is gang raping you?


And who is eating your cocoa?


Kindly face your front.

Naija9090:


Afonjas...the problem of Nigeria. Causing trouble, spreading deception and envious of Eastern Region...connives with North to hold them back!

Super1Star:
Your past and present Govs are from the West

your past and present Ministers are from the North west

Your past and present legislators are from North East

your ex-President and his uncouth garrulous wife are from North Central.

Your ex- and present militants are from Sambisa Fores
If they are from those areas, the world will agree with you that West and the North underdeveloped Niger Delta.

Meanwhile, the world knows
1. You collect monthly FAAC allocation

2. You collect monthly JAAC allocation.

3. You collect monthly 13% derivation

4. IOCs have CSRs and community projects

5. Amnesty programme for your legalized criminals

6. Min of Niger Delta

7. NDDC - a regional Govt on its own.

Show us what you have achieved with all that 1st.

Super1Star:
Your past and present Govs are from the West

your past and present Ministers are from the North west

Your past and present legislators are from North East

your ex-President and his uncouth garrulous wife are from North Central.

Your ex- and present militants are from Sambisa Forest

If they are from those areas, the world will agree with you that West and the North underdeveloped Niger Delta.

Meanwhile, the world knows
1. You collect monthly FAAC allocation

2. You collect monthly JAAC allocation.

3. You collect monthly 13% derivation

4. IOCs have CSRs and community projects

5. Amnesty programme for your legalized criminals

6. Min of Niger Delta

7. NDDC - a regional Govt on its own.

Show us what you have achieved with all that 1st.

oduastates:
No historical sources. No dates . Nothing You will never be allowed to use beer parlour lies to rewrite history
These were Awo's positions on true federalism.

Awo on Federalism for Multi-National Country
"I predict that every multi-lingual or multi-national country with a unitary constitution must either eventually have a federal constitution based on the principles which J have enunciated, or disintegrate, or be perennially afflicted with disharmony and instability."


Awo on Human Diversity and Political Autonomy
"You can unite but can never succeed in unifying peoples whom language has set distinctly apart from one another; the more educated a linguistic. group becomes, the stronger it waxes in its bids for political self-determination and autonomy, unless it happens to be the dominant group."
- Thoughts on the Nigerian Constitution, 1966.

Awo On Creation of More States for Minorities
"The creation of the Mid- West State will be the beginning of a journey which may be short or long but which will irresistibly bring Nigeria to the goal of true federalism and more States, and of individual freedom and happiness for all our people."
- Awolowo and Nigerian Federalism, 1988.

Awo on Population As Basis Of Sharing Revenue
"In a country where the accuracy of the census figures is so much in acrimonious dispute, it is gross and aggravating provocation to urge that population should be used as a basis of sharing what belongs to others who are much fewer in number."
-The Strategy and Tactics of the People's Republic of Nigeria, 1970

Awo on State Police
"Under my proposals, Police is a residual subject, because the immediate problem of maintaining law and order can only be properly and more effectively tackled by the State Government."
- The Strategy and Tactics of the Peoples' Republic of Nigeria, 1970.

Awo on the Nigerian Federation
"Nigeria is not a nation. It is a mere geographical expression. The word Nigerian is merely a distinctive appellation to distinguish those who live within the boundaries of Nigeria from those who do not".
- Path To Nigerian Freedom, 1947

Awo On Nigeria As Created By The British
"It is incontestable that the British not only made Nigeria, but also hand it to us whole on their surrender of power. But the Nigeria, which they handed over to us, had in it the forces of its own disintegration. It is up to contemporary Nigerian leaders to neutralize these forces, preserve the Nigerian inheritance, and make all our people free, forward-looking and prosperous. "
- The Peoples' Republic, 1968.

Awo On Future Conflicts
"The seed for a future minority problem in the North has been sown by the Government. It will grow with growing political consciousness on the part of those who settle permanently in the North."
- Path to Nigerian Freedom. 1947

Awo on an Ijaw Presidency of Nigeria
"I look forward to the day - not in the far distant future - when an Ijaw would be President of our
Republic, and a Birom his Vice or vice versa."
- Speech at the UPN's First Campaign (1978): In Voice of Wisdom (1981)

Turakidanjuma:





LIP SERVICE FROM A KNOWN TRIBALIST

Turakidanjuma:





LIP SERVICE FROM A KNOWN TRIBALIST

9jasite:
The years prior to the independence of Nigeria the nation operated on true federalism. The constituent units were the eastern, western and Northern Region respectively. The North produced Groundnut, the West produced Cocoa while the Eastern region produced Palm Oil. The Western region was later divided into Mid-west and Western regions respectively.

The region now known as the Niger Delta region was in the Mid-west and Eastern region respectively. In that era Cocoa and groundnut were of higher value and the north and western region were the two riches regions. The Eastern region and in fact the entire southern tribes were earning lower from palm oil.

With these revenues the North went ahead to produce the richest man in Africa (Dantata) while the West built the first television station, the best universities and the Cocoa house. The revenue was first wholly taken by the region and later they were to contribute 50% of such revenues to the centre. With such arrangement the west attained the status of the richest region in Nigeria while the Eastern was the poorest region at that time.

With the advent of the civil war and its end, the Gowon military junta found itself deficient in civilian administration and hence made the former premier of the West Awolowo as the Finance minister. With such influence, Awolowo was able to convince the Gowon administration to jettision the revenue sharing arrangement which left the oil rich region in poverty.

It should be noted that the Niger delta did not enjoy the slush cocoa funds and groundnut proceeds. Even more the Oil boom in the 1970’s and subsequently were an opportunity for the region to catch up with rest of Nigeria. This never happened.

The actions of the west in connivance with the North also led to discrimination in employment into the oil and gas companies. Not only were the oil firms made to employ western and Northern graduates in preference to graduates from the oil rich region, the Oil giants were also to have their headquarters in Lagos rather than in the territories they explored.

These pattern of actions started by the Sage Awolowo has been continued until of late when a paltry 13% was introduced for the region. The last national conference instituted an increment to that but was not implemented due to morbid fear of the North.

These actions have indeed caused the region to be underdeveloped and lagging in Human development indices and industrial development. The Niger Delta has a lot of catching up to do, however unless the 50% status quo is reinstalled the nation would continue to be seen as an unjust contraption. The actions of the Niger Delta militants can only be seen as an expression of anger over years of injustice.

The oil wealth in the Niger Delta is meant to enable the region catch up with the rest of the nation. We do not need 13%, the NDDC or the Amnesty…..On resource control we stand.





OREVA-OGHENE EJIRO is a Policy Analyst and Columnist

0811-984-7797


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Ekinematics:
On resource control we stand. Op you have said it all.

Johnnyessence:
u can always type your articles as expected. I have been noticing you all this while always cause tribal fight amongg the ethnic groups in Nigeria. Am waiting for you when you will write abou Ipob agitation of Biafra. From your write up will the resource control help them too? You can never type good articles to improve the people of Nigeria but always caused tribal war on nairaland. Even your website is trash. No adsense nothing. You better get something doing. You are a tribalistic. Stop this your tribal[b] arties[/b]. Infact it shows you are not improving at all. No evidence of ypur articles but always caused tribal war among the ethnic groups. You are sighted but not going too far.