obong:

chxta, clearly you're a bigot and a fool.

so 2 shell workers represent all. how do you know these guys even work there. for all your know its seun or you posing as these psoters.

how long have the leaderrs of these regiosn controlled the resources that we are talking about. you wish to blame the condition of the delta on these few leaders that propped up recently after democracy. you think in 6or 7 years they can fix years if oppression and neglect.

all those speaking about the underdevelopment of the delta, tell me, how long have the local leaders had a hand in their development. be honest.

bastards like chxta should be lined up and shot, or better yet, quartered.

The facts remain (and I am yet to be proved wrong in any forum that I have raised these points despite all the hate and threats directed at me)

and please stop promotting that stupid blog of yours

Radiant:

chxta, thanks for the post on Victor's death.

Big B1:

If number one man doesn't show good examples for the governors to follow, there is 85% possibility that the governors will not be effective.

It should be a requirement for all the current political candidates to take a leadership class for 3 months from a credited university in United States. They will be responsible for the school fees.

Most of our problems exist today because of lack of understanding the role of an effective leader.

buchio7:

@sijien
true talk my brother bt d some people on these threads will turn a blind eye to these points u have made.

I worked as an acquisition officer with a telecoms company within the niger-delta region for 3 years and can confirm the observations u made here. the level of development here is out of sheer greed by d leaders of dese areas and d level dey will go to to ensure that companys coming into there vicinity pay them homage eventually leads to such companys abandoning such projects which would have impacted positively on dere situation.

i knw a community called ogbnia in bayelsa who dere l.g.a. chairman put me through hell just because we wanted to put a site within there community. He demanded for 1 million naira even before he could sign d agreement. another example is kaiama but let me nt start monologuing. The crux of d mata be sey dese people n them leaders na wah!!!

chineduleo:

My friends,i must say that we are going about this issue the wrong way.It still shows nigerians don't know what it is to be nigerians.What we are talking about here are nigerians who want to better their lots.I have spent a year or so of my life in bayelsa state and i must confess these people they suffer.Normally,our government should be responsible for every Nigerian young or old.That gives the people the sense of pride to be citizens.Look at, you are kidnapping your own people and even killing them to make a statement.The state in return is sending the state machinery to kill Nigerians.Come on i have always thought Nigerians are smart.There are ways of achieving struggles.In recent past,Nelson Mandela,Martin luther King, Indra Ghandi and so many others.They are reknown for their struggles for justice and equality by means of non violence and they are better for it.I know for sure that they are great intellectuals from the Niger Delta region and my appeal to them is or rather a question "What kind of children are they raising" What legacy are they leaving?Violence only begets more violence.The best means has always being the civil rights means.There are very potent means of achieving it.For me i don't know a country that will hard earned foreign exchange leave her shores only for payment to come from the so called headquarters.Just check it,my friend so many things have gone wrong.The future of the Niger Delta and indeed Nigeria has been mortgaged by her own people.Especially by the so called local contacts of these multi-national companies.


LET SIT AND PONDER A BIT-NO MAN IS BIGGER THAN THE STATE!!!!

waffistyle:

Look i am from the NIGER DELTA, i live in Warri, i do business in Port-Harcoat, i do travel to Benin regularly too, i schooled in ABU Zaria, i also do business in Abuja, and know Kaduna fairly well, now in all my travels i ve never passed a road as bad as Warri- Port-harcoat road, a road linking two oil towns that feed the nation, in all my travels i ve also not passed a road as smooth as Kaduna-Abuja road, lets not talk much on the bad state of Benin-Warri road or Benin-Lagos road, look when you push even a goat to the wall, he will turn to face you, the situation of the Niger Deltans "is this situation pass die", in the whole of the Niger Delta region you can hand pick federal institions, or presence, even this NNPC Mega filling Stations are no where to be found here in ND, I personally have not seen one,
the solution is simply RESOURCE CONTROL, TRUE FEDERALISM, pERIOD!!!!!!!!!
I ve to go now, i don close from work, till tommorrow every one

birdman:

Sijien thank youuuu

SPDC does not release the amout of bribe money they lose to the locals every year(an estimated loss of several million dollars), because when all the budget for W.Africa is done, they are still well ahead. No need to rock the boat. Niger delta problems, as of now, has very little to do with any form of development or actualisation by the indigenes. The corruption and thievery of the leaders and people in this areas is mind boggling.

Oyinbo no dey talk, as long as he can make his money and go on. For example SPDC hired boys in the delta area in an effort to include 'local content'. Then they noticed that their equipment was being stolen regularly, by none other than the people they had hired. Of course SPDC initially fired them, until the tribal leaders raised hell. Shell decided on a compromise: pay the boys not to come to work !! At least that way, no more stolen equipment.

Oh, and by the way, if you are not from the tribal area, and you are transferred to the area by SPDC, you know the kind of wahala you are going to go through. There are stories of some Nigerians working in the area who have to pay 25% of their salary to the tribal leaders. Why? Because no local content was found to fill the job, and as far as they are concerned, you are renting the job until they can find one of their own.

I better stop now

Paul mentioned that people don't want effort. That's true.

Tried activating a Windows XP licence recently? Microsoft Office licence too? Windows Genuine Advantage (sic) giving you any hassle? Had to reinstall Windows after a serious virus infection? Or do you set up a decent anti-virus, anti-spy/adware and firewall program?

I'm still a Windows user more often than not, but it's becoming a major pain in the ass to use their product.