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ThinkRait:
It is a pity that Nigerians don't take time to analyse issues before making comments and drawing conclusion.
The fact that the press said MEND was responsible and MEND itself claimed responsibility doesnt make the story true.
Al Qaeda will claim responsibility for anything that affects the American people and the American economy. If a 'Piper Alpha' happens in Texas today, Al Qaeda will claim responsibility. I see this as propaganda.

Come to think of it. What is the distance (by sea) between the ND states and Lagos?
How many naval bases are there between the waters of Delta and Lagos states?
How much fuel does a speed boat need to travel between Bayelsa and Lagos?

Assuming the boys hatched the plan within Lagos territory, how did the smuggle their weapons through? Is our land security system that porous?
What were the SSS, police and other intelligence agency doing when the plans were being hatched?
Or is it that Nigeria willingly gave out Bakassi peninsular knowing fully well our security system cant withstand a Camerounian onslaught?

Atlas cove belongs to NNPC. Who stands to gain from the destruction of NNPC facility?
What was the nature of the damaged facility? I guess it was a petroleum products import facility.
If fuel scarcity returns to our roads, who will benefit from it? MEND or businessmen?

I dont have the answers to these questions but I feel we should ask questions rather than swallow whatever we hear hook, line and sinker.

Atlas Cove: Navy to sack neighbouring villages
By PHILIP NWOSU, NDUBUISI ORJI, SAM OTTI and CHINELO AGINA
Wednesday, July 15, 2009




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Following the bloody Sunday night attack by suspected members of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), the Nigerian Navy has resolved to deal with the problem from the root by ejecting occupants of the two villages bordering the Atlas Cove.

Daily Sun gathered that the decision to sack the two villages came in the wake of a discovery that the militants had taken refuge in the villages days before they launched the attack on the Atlas Cove.
A key Naval official told Daily Sun on condition of anonymity that the only solution to the end of militancy in the area is the sacking of the villagers from their homes, adding that deploying intelligence to always dumb the area will not solve the problem.

The official revealed that the Navy was aware that militants may attack Lagos weeks before the onslaught by MEND at the key NNPC facility in Lagos, but said the calculation was that the pipelines would be their target.

It was gathered that prior to Sunday night attack, the Navy had commenced a daily patrol on the pipelines especially in the villages around Atlas Cove, but the militants diverted their operation to hit the NNPC oil discharging points for vessels.
Already, the Atlas Cove had been cordoned off by operatives of the Nigerian Navy, attached to the NNS Beecroft, preventing unauthorized persons from getting closer to the destroy areas.
The Commanding Officer of the NNS Beecroft, Commodore Obi Ozorjiofor, lamented the attack by the suspected militant, expressing that the Navy remain undettered by such unpatriotic attack.

Similarly, Naval Spokesman, Commodore David Nabaida, said: “The Navy is not in any panic. We remain strong in pursuit of our constitutional duties. This attack should not be used to judge naval capabilities, because we had also dealt with MEND and other militants in the Niger Delta.”

Commodore Nabaida said the Navy had been able to do well in the policing of Nigeria’s oil facilities, especially the country’s 400 nautical miles area, from Lagos to Akwa Ibom extending to the sea.
He told Daily Sun that the Navy was in no way caught napping by the militants.
Meanwhile, condemnation has continued to trail the bombing which left at least, five persons dead and completely wiped out the jetty.
http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2009/july/15/national-15-07-2009-001.htm

hilli666:
I Hilli666, once a stalwart acolyte of the instituion called Nigeria, must now sadly denoucne all constitutianal ties and renounce all responsibility as a citizen. I do so with the most reverd and deepend sadness in my heart. But I, can not in the blind interest of patriotsm Ignore my moral and ethical reponsibilty to myself, and my family. I am now officially claiming to be an American and or British citizen till futher notice. I am deeplpy sadend and trouble by the current state of affairs in what was once my home coutry called Nigeria.

On second thought, "NAIJA 4 LIFE" no shaking. with or without OBAMA

ezeagu:
Lovely, apart from that what are your thoughts?

debosky:
So must you be stupid if everyone around you is stupid?

debosky:
@ naijaking1

Isn't the problem all down to the 'primodium' of tribe? So corruption is inevitably down to it as well! Tribes!

Some of you will force the issue of global warming and climate change into a tribal box if it is possible.

naijaking1:
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Re: MEND Attacks Lagos
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Quote from: naijaking1 on Today at 06:35:44 PM
The chicken or the egg, who's first? No matter how you cut and slice it, we always come back to the primodium---tribe. The issue of national assets was formulated by people from tribes who sought to gain temporary upper-hand on the Igbos, Ijaws, Ibibios, Edo, Efiks of the east. That's what we're talking about here. The federal land policy, the revenue allocation policies are simply smoke coming from the main fire. Nigeria is too scare to look the fire on the face.

I guess the Federal Legislature building was also designed to gain an upper hand on the East, as well as the Customs Service and the Police as National bodies.

I guess we also chose a National Flag and got independence as a country simply to gain upper hand over the East. In fact, the entire purpose of Nigeria is to gain upper hand over the East!!

You are so stuck in your warped theories you can't see wood for trees.

A pipeline supplying fuel to the South East and South West was designed to gain upper hand on the East as well.

Heck the name Nigeria was chosen so as to overtake the East!! Land Use policy is something invented by the government against the East! After all, it only affects them and benefits the other regions solely!!

Your intelligence is way of the charts - honestly it is.

Ibori's stealing is to give other regions advantage over the east, so was Chimaroke's stealing and Andy Uba's stealing - of course it is!

You're either a big joke or the most confused person I have met in a long time

blacksta:
Wande coal -

please stick to making hit records - dont quit your day job

Oodua group condemns attack

Similarly, the Coalition of Oodua self- determination Group, COSEG, has also described it as an unacceptable act capable of creating unnecessary tension across the country.

This was disclosed yesterday in Lagos by the Coalition of Oodua Self-Determination Groups (COSEG) in a release signed by its Director of Media and Publicity, Comrade Gbenga Soloki, stressing that the development portends danger to the existing collaboration between the people of the South-West and their Niger Delta counterparts.

According to COSEG, “while we understand the rights of the Niger Delta to self-determination, which we have always defended, we believe they should realise that their struggle for self-determination exists within geographical and cultural boundaries, and to that extent, we don’t expect them to take actions that will infringe on the territory and interest of the Yoruba people, talk less of their commercial nerve centre, Lagos”
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/14/atlas-cove-bombing-slap-on-fg-%e2%80%94senate/

Sam Milla:
My release wont stop N/Delta crisis - OKAH

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/14/9942/comment-page-2/#comment-15659

Fhemmmy:
Nigerians are not cowards but just used to poverty and being a slave.

discuss here too http://favourofgod..com/

blacksta:
Dear Friend - I have no beef with any tribe in Nigeria - God forbid. but sometimes this poster called Ijawman does my head In -


I was only refering to the above statement - I failed to find the correlation between the topic , Mend, Igbos and Lagos

i could find a link btw Topic , Mend and Lagos and but Ijawman purposely threw In " Igbo " to generally upset everybody.

ilugunboy:
Yes right!,

BTW, asha80=ijawman?, just curious.

nues aweso:
They blew up the line supplying raw crude-oil to Kaduna refinery and[b] not the one supplying imported refined products to the North.

ilugunboy:
Up MEND! , now it time to blow up the Third Mainland Bridge. Afterall it a FG owned property. Asiwin people!

Onlytruth:
I'm not really interested in Nigeria's presidency. I suspect most Igbos will prefer Biafra or something close enough. We need s system where we can have our governor account to us rather than Abuja. Where the police chief will be accounting to local voters rather than to someone in far away places.
Put differently, Igbo want to control their own destiny. You can fool yourself all you want but South east governors today are performing better than their counterparts elsewhere (irrespective of abuja) manipulations. Imagine what will happen if such Abuja impositions end. We can turn around our fortune overnight. I wonder what people like you will say then. Nigeria's presidential powers is part of the current Nigerian problems.

nues aweso:
Funny you all keep saying there is no tribal dimensions to it.

Ask yourselves how many of the victims are non-Yorubas and how many are Yorubas? 80% are Yorubas

What is the impact of blowing up the Atlas Cove Jetty ?

"The Atlas Cove jetty is the hub of NNPC distribution network tagged system 2E which supplies products through pipeline network to NNPC's depots in Ejigbo, Mosimi in Ogun , Ibadan in Oyo State and Ilorin in Kwara State.The 2E distribution network also connects Ore depot in Ondo State."

So we expect to see the economy of the South west grind to a halt in the coming weeks and you tell me this is not targeted at Yorubas

How does this attack fuel supply to the North, South-south/East? Why didnt they blow up Warri or PH refinery? Why not the Jetty at Onne? _{Tell me another story plz}

tarano:
This is too close for comfort!!! The Militant attack at Atlas Cove is in bad taste with sever implications to the revitalization effort of the lagos economy. Seriously, Guys this attack is bad for Lagos, We do not need something like this, We have a focused Governor that is trying to provide an enabling environment for Foreign and Local Investors to do business, This is not good news, The Lagos state government should act within its power to prevent such attacks from occuring again, With the severe poverty and depravation in Ajegunle and its prime location in lagos by the mangrove creeks and with their tribal affiliations to the Niger Delta, it's going to be a battle of hearts and minds, I beg Una, Mend should please take their fight somewhere else, omo if Mend start recruiting youngsters from AJ naa trouble oh,

ilugunboy:
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Bunkum!, where is the big picture that we can't see, please show us! . Stop trying to to blackmail everybody to follow your cause. The way you guys are saying is like " IS EITHER YOU ARE WITH US IN THIS "STRUGGLE" OR YOU ARE FOR THE STATUS QUO". That's cheap blackmail!.

Everybody has a way of fighting injustice, the fact that I don't agree with the current method of fighting it by the  so called MEND does not in anyway suggest  I prefer the status quo.

kathyekiti:
For all the warmongers out there, Commander Awe is my cousin. Please feel free to contact me so you can tell his three children why it is a good thing that their father is dead!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ibeme:
Sorry love. . . . actions of the few are supported by the majority. . . . therefore you need no veil to hide behind when condemning us in totality. . . . just dont forget to condemn all our Igbo and Yoruba brothers who support the actions of the few as well!