ITSEKIRI ARISE!!!!!!

Dear Comrades, it is exactly 24 Hours before we make history as the first indigenous people to go on strike to press home their demand to any International Oil Company (IOC).
We all need to be counted.

It is an acceptable fact that if we continue as we are without doing anything about it, we may become "of all men most miserable".
Today slaves ride on Horse, while Princes and Princess walk on barefoot. We have been too civilise about our plight.
We have in Chevron a Policy Government and Public Affairs (PGPA) department that specialises on Churning out lies to deceive the ignorant.

A department that is supposed to liaise between Chevron and her host communities have become our greatest problem.
Chevron does recruitment and PGPA will claim ignorance even when they know it is true. When you press further, they will tell you they will investigate and get back to you.
How can a company or her contractors carry out recruitment without the knowledge of the relevant department that is saddled with the responsibility of handling community related issues on the job/project?

We have our indigenes who have put over twenty years in service as contract staffs and whenever Chevron carries out "regularisation" of contract staffs, they are never found good enough.

Chevron cannot show us any Itsekiri contract staff converted to staff in the last 10 years whereas other people are being converted.

Today, on the eve of our Revolution, We remember Prince Iteye whose name the Abiteye Oil field derive her name.
I remember that Okan is an Itsekiri word likewise Meji, and Dibi.
I also remember that Olero is an Itskeiri deity from which the Olero field derive her name.

Tomorrow our forefathers - Prince Iteye, Princess Iye, Chief Nana Olomu, Chief Dore Numa, Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh, Pa Alfred Rewane, etc. will count on us to preserve the future of the Kingdom they bequeathed to us.
Except our forefathers where not buried in Iwere land that is the only reason we will fail.

I challenge all Itsekiri Staffs in Chevron Nigeria limited to act for the sake of our Children, and our Children's Children.
Be rest assured that Chevron will be met with the force of nature if they single out any of you for victimization.
I can tell you that Chevron has been "running from pillar to post" to see if they can stop this revolution, but it is obviously too late.
Tomorrow June 28, 2017, the future of our Children will be secured not just in Chevron, but in all IOCs operating on our soil.
The only condition for a truce is the immediate regularisation of the employment of VTP5/OTP2 and VTP6 Trainees, and with strong assurances through written commitment that all other demands will be met in no distance time.

Aluta Continua!
Victora Acerta!!

I feel your grieve