studentofTruth:
Professor Utomi come and hear your masters who made you rich by stealing from your father.

Theirs is theirs and your father's ppty is theirs too. They give you crumbs from what belongs to your father, and you feel blessed while your people suffer.

People with the so-called international reach who should be fighting for justice and looking after their people are looking for their own stomach.

Leaders in oil-producing states should never let this slide. This is enough reason to restructure the country. The time is now!

We have a FG that is a monster built through unity among its political elites with the arrangement of sharing the national cake among the political elites while the rest are to endure endless poverty. This is the enemy. The Southern elites are OK so long as they are getting their share, to hell with their region, they don't care if there's abject poverty and living conditions is hell for the masses. They prefer to be the Billionaires surrounded by extreme poverty and they can be worshipped by the poor and they can show off and their families live like Kings. So these people will never work to change the status quo or fix the system. Same thing is applicable throughout Nigeria. Boko Haram is not just as a result of religous extremism, poverty is a major factor. They want a shift of power where the national cake is being enjoyed by the Northern elites only.

And BTW, Restructuring CANNOT work. I don't know why most people can't see this FACT. Restructuring = Regionalism, and we have done that before in the past. We had amalgamation, which led to regionalism and regionalism led to federalism. If Regionalism was perfect, why would the politicking and political game of thrones they were playing at that time lead them to sign off on Federalism? Why didn't they form independence as the United Regions of Nigeria? Which would have been the case if the political landscape and power struggle favored Regionalism and independent regions with a central figurehead. But politics and powers struggle pushed them to Federalism, pushed them to form the Federal Republic of Nigeria, which means Regionalism cannot work. If we repeat it, then the same power struggle and game of thrones that pushed the political elites of that era to scheme for Federalism will repeat itself too. Self Determination is the only solution. To be clamoring and pushing for Restructuring simply means either A) We don't know our history, or B) We didn't learn from our history, or C) All of the above.

Just like FG also buys crude oil and illegally refined products from Niger Delta people. No one is a fool in this country anymore...

Eating your cake and still have it. The Oil cannot be mined by private individuals but the Zamfara gold can be. The North has shown so much double standards and injustice to the South for so long. When the bubble burst
the next generations of Northerners will read the tales with much regrets.


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backnbeta:
You buy gold from illegal miners to discourage them from selling to bandits...in other words, you know the illegal miners but you chose not to arrest them! Yet, they run to arrest people for illegal oil bunkering in the South!
Do these people think at all before speaking?

Now I believe that most northerners are truly cows... imagine, you buy gold from illegal miners...

blacknp:
You are bereft of common sense, you need psychological help.

Where is your common sense in the expression in these pictures

Pic1- Zamafara
Pic 2 - Niger delta

You need to be chained down, as you have gone bounden needing a clinical help.

Imagine these bunch of stupid parasites!

Nig is long overdue for DISINTEGRATION!

Olofin2:



Now I believe that most northerners are truly cows... imagine, you buy gold from illegal miners...

When you have run of lies to tell to cover up for the previous lies you have been telling, then there's a tendency you will just say one rubbish that will blow up everything

Same way they will say they are paying bandits to bring peace, same way they will say they are rehabilitating Boko Haram, but peaceful protesters will be shot dead, and I am yet to hear that one IPOB member (just ONE, I'm not asking for two) has been reformed by the FG. The news alleged that many of those massacred and dumped in the Ezu River were MASSOB members. Why didn't the FG reform them, why didn't they spend billions to rehabilitate them and reintegrate them into society like they are doing with Boko Haram members? So many whys and what ifs.

Kestolove:
D gold in zamfara belong to zamfara but everything in south east ND south south belong to d north and west, if u don't like it..leave

Which West are you referring to? Always get your facts right before spilling rubbish. What does South-East have that South-West lacks? In commercial oil deposit in Nigeria, Cross River, Rivers, Delta, Bayelsa, Ondo which is South West state before you mentioned Imo, Abia and Lagos

By implications, the state government buy the gold from illegal miners? Shouldn't those illegal miners be arrested by the government and not patronized?

This country, robbing peter to pay paul. Also allow the South South leaders to buy and sell crude from illegal miners too

Kestolove:
D gold in zamfara belong to zamfara but everything in south east ND south south belong to d north and west, if u don't like it..leave

Janjaweeed

If they want to project equity they should organise mining to the same standards and framework as the oil and gas industry, through open bidding and with international conglomerates involved.

As long as it continues to be shady and done shoddily there will always be demands for equity and justice.

The Federal Goverment either raises the threshold of the mineral industry or lowers the threshold of the oil and gas industry. If not south state governors may as well involve themselves in bunkering activities claiming simularly to be 'buying off crude to prevent proceeds from thr hands of militants'.

We really need to restructure this country. The level of injustice is really piling on the wood for a big bonfire to come. I hope this country will be able to recover from the next public rumpus.

williams2kg:
You think you are wise.

Don't mind the idiot,they were indirectly encouraging the Miners so as to illegally reap the benefits now that it has back fired he talking rubbish forgetting that he's just being clever by half,very dangerous set of cunning n deceptive people.

So who are the illegal miners? Fuc!king liars.

Oga Commissioner

I normally don't comment on matter like this but i will make an exception

You buy the Gold from ILLEGAL MINERS

the keyword is ILLEGAL MINERS.

Do you know what happens to ILLEGAL REFINERS OF CRUDE OIL IN THE SOUTH?

They are harassed and killed by the ARMY

You are legitimizing the activities of the illegal miners buying buying the product they are mining illegally

Lies,lies,lies.

Lolzzz. Can u imagine these mofos! You buy from ILLEGAL MINERS. Chai. So Zamfara State govt has now legitimize illegal mining?

Southerner governors are not wise. They're fulani lapdogs...

Ever8090:
They government buys gold from illegal miners in Zamfara state/ the government kills illegal oil workers from Niger Delta...

The government from Zamfara state can not secure their gold/ the government hires Niger Delta youths to secure oil pipelines...

Resource control will address the situation..

They even make it obvious and don't give a damn about what other regions think.

williams2kg:
You think you are wise.

don't mind them

I said it! The more they try to cover up the more they expose themselves.
Where are all those wannabees who were arguing with me on this topic the other day?
Here and now your commissioner have consciously agreed they have illegal miners, and the state is doing business with these criminals, meaning by deductive reasoning Zamfara state is knowingly or unknowingly sponsoring these artisanal criminals , case closed!
Let no one ever come to tell us anything about operational licence again.

so u buy it from illegal miners but support clamping down on those in Niger delta that operates illegal Refinery

Seerade029:


West stands alone.
stop lumping us together with another region

Dumping not lumping my brother... northern jihad's using our brain since 1886

And they think that is wisdom?

Notatribalist:
only used to buy the gold from the illegal miners..

I DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS..GOVERNMENT BUYS FROM ILLEGAL MINNERS?HOW IT THAT POSSIBLE MY PEOPLE?

But the same government will not buy oil from local oil bunkers in the Niger Delta, rather, they are tagged criminals. One day go be one day for this country, and all these injustices will end even if it means by force.

But the oil in Niger delta belongs to Nigeria?

Na WA o

[quote author=thatsleepboy1 post=96195473]He said, “The state government doesn’t own any portion of the goldfields throughout the state and is not involved in mining activities.”
The commissioner maintained that the state government only used to buy the gold from the illegal miners in order to prevent the commodity from being smuggled out of the country or sold out to bandits.
“What the state government does is to buy the gold so that it doesn’t fall into wrong hands who in return sell it outside the country and purchase weapons for the bandits.”



Just imagine buying gold from the illegal miners and they know them. We've gone past these things abeg. Why don't they arrest the illegal miners. They've just scored an OWN GOAL.
then FG should start buying crude from illegal drillers.