₦airaland Forum

TonyeBarcanista:
You are ignorant Sir!

The MOSSOP has NEVER demanded for independence. Their demand has always been fiscal AUTONOMY! The 2012 Declaration wasn't for Independent Ogoni State but Autonomous Ogoni region.

No time die any Ndoki or Etche demand to join the SE. Beside, even the Ndoki's in Abia state trace their Origin to Ijaw. The Ndokis in Rivers are Ijaws... That's an established fact(whether you like it or NOT). The Etches have NEVER demanded separation and non of these groups are pro-Biafrans.



Quote me anywhere

Even though the Nigerian government and the media seemed to downplay it, the August 2 declaration of autonomy by the people of Ogoniland just screamed out at the whole country. The images of the crowds of men, women, and children celebrating the insignias of independence rekindled memories of the people’s past struggle for local self-government.

Mr. Goodluck Diigbo, who led the August 2 declaration, said it was a proclamation of local autonomy within Nigeria and in line with the Ogoni Bill of Rights. In August 1990, the Ogoni Bill of Rights was signed by Ogoni elders and presented to the then military government. It called for “political control of Ogoni affairs by Ogoni people, control and use of Ogoni economic resources for Ogoni development, adequate and direct representation as of right for Ogoni people in all Nigerian national institutions, and the right to protect the Ogoni environment and ecology from further degradation.”

The Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People was formed that year to engage in a non-violent pursuit of the special rights of the people within Nigeria. MOSOP was led by playwright, environmentalist and author, Mr. Ken Saro-Wiwa, who was slain on November 10, 1995 by the military dictator Sani Abacha in an outrageous judicial decision that was condemned worldwide as “judicial murder.”
Indigenous Rights

Diigbo, who is described as a factional president of MOSOP, in his statement declaring “Ogoni autonomy”, cited, among other things, the degradation of Ogoni environment and failure of the Federal Government to implement the United Nations Environment Programme report on Ogoni as motivation for the move.

He explained in a press statement published in MOSOP Media, “The urgency behind the declaration is that self-government for Ogoni was overdue in view of many important issues bordering on indigenous rights of the Ogoni people being tampered with now. The UNEP Ogoni Report is one out of many.”

According to Diigbo, “The Ogoni declaration of self-government now guarantees the Ogoni people the right to participate in decision-making in all matters which would affect their rights, through representatives chosen by Ogonis in accordance with own procedures, as well as to maintain and develop all our own indigenous decision-making institutions, which we started to set up since 2011.
“It is my hope that this self-government will help to provide just and fair redress to decades of deprivation of our indigenous rights.”

Diigbo was addressing jubilant crowds at Bane, hometown of Saro-Wiwa, on August 4, two days after the independence declaration.
“Importantly, Ogoni can no longer accept dictation, any institution, government and corporation, interested in investment in Ogoni will enjoy transparent partnership, because we will end corruption and irresponsive governance in Ogoni. This means partnership will be based on free, prior and informed consent before any of our partners adopt and implement any project, and before the national government adopt any legislative or administrative measures that may affect Ogoni people,” Diigbo maintained.
‘Treason’

However, Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, where Ogoniland is currently located, accused Diigbo of engaging in treasonable felony.
Amaechi said, “On Ogoni autonomy, I wish them well. Ogoni autonomy is not achievable. The man (Diigbo) who declared Ogoni autonomy will run into the bush tomorrow morning. What Diigbo is doing is treasonable felony. You do not declare autonomy on the pages of newspapers and magazines or on radio and television.”
But Diigbo issued another statement two days later, clarifying that he meant autonomy within the Nigerian state, quoting United Nations Conventions on the Rights of Ethnic Nationalities.
Amaechi questioned Diigbo’s claims of acting on behalf of the generality of Ogoni people.

HOW MANY OF US AS NDOKI PEOPLE THINKS THEY HAVE IJAW ANCESTORS AS SOME IJAWS ALWAYS CLAIM...

WE NEED AN ANSWER TO THESE BCAUSE WE ARE HITTING IT SOON!

Some dazed fools like Andrew Ebimone, an Ijaw guy, jumped to this page yesterday and clams that his father’s ijaw ancestor’s origins were swallowed by hyenas which are not and will never be Ndoki Ancestors he’s talking about!
https://www.facebook.com/ndokiopobo/photos/a.1457806071158000.1073741828.1455555991383008/1481227972149143/?type=1&theater

“Person who believe they have something connect to Ndoki people is at liberty to express it in a decent manner, we can even debate on it and not to insult anyone because we are not going to endue certain degree of shit from any mentally handicap people!”

Imagine someone attaching themselves to Ndoki yet not even in a
good manner, for a “nervous being like ebimone” conversing that Ndoki have ijaw ancestors but abandoned it to be swallowed by hyena..?

MAY THAT IDIOT BE PUNISHED!

Many of us are still aware of where Ndoki migrated from in search of sea with some other groups and not only us.

While Ndoki stretch directly to where we are today, discovered those Islands and have them for centuries, even some of us who feels they were getting congest in the island still returns back to upland.

Ijaw have their island known as Nembe.

NOW ANY NDOKI PERSON WHO THINKS WE HAVE IJAW ANCESTORS SHOULD PUT IT DOWN BECAUSE WE ARE HITTING ON IT SOON!!!

Lagos — Complaints of marginalisation have resurrected an age-old agitation by the people of Oyigbo local government in Rivers State for a merger with their kith and kin in Abia State.

There is a grounds- well of discontent and agitation in Oyigbo local government area of Rivers State. The people are seriously complaining of marginalisation in the affairs of the state and now want to go back to Abia State from where they were carved out in 1976. Oyigbo local government was merged with Rivers State following federal government's acceptance of the report of the Justice Mamman Nasir boundary adjustment commission. Besides, they insist that they are Igbo and would be better catered for in a predominant Igbo territory. The people, under the aegis of Asa-Ndoki-Obigbo League, ANOL, have petitioned President Olusegun Obasanjo, alleging denial of social amenities such as electricity, pipe-borne water, motorable roads and hospital, among others. "Since we have been denied everything due to us, we must go back to our kith and kin in Abia State", they wrote in a petition dated February 18, 2000 and signed by Stanley Akaya and Johnson Ezenma, president and secretary-general respectively. In the petition, ANOL gave 17 reasons why the people want to go back to Abia State.

Macelliot:
When Yar'adua wanted to choose Peter Odili(ikwerre man) from Rivers state as his deputy, Edwin clark immediately release a press statement saying, "The vice-presidency slot given to the S-south minorities won't go to an Igbo man(refering to Peter Odili from Rivers).

basilo101:
the worst part is that the oil will soon finish and there will be land to farm or water to fish

basilo101:
U really feel very important choi

vladimiros:
if the delta state government paves the way for Anioma state the Fulanis and Yorubas would block the motion..

simple..

vladimiros:
[size=14pt]Fulanis have been clamoring for grazing lands since the 1970s, yet nothing..

Yorubas, well yorubas have been clamouring for whatever suites them, yet nothing

we SS fought for Derivation we got 13%, a Development Commision and a Government Ministry and you say " they did not hear us"

haba!![/size]

vladimiros:
Anioma state creation is a pipedream..

lets be honest to ourselves here, if the Anioma state talk goes to senate it would be squashed, and we would get alienated..

right now lets do with what we have and not fight for every land..

vladimiros:
[size=14pt]do you even knopw the job of NDDC and how much is their budget?

do you know the job of Ministry of Niger Delta and how much is their budget

if you know what the NDDC does, you would know that the 13% is small...

continue..[/size]

vladimiros:
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what kind of rubbish talk is this again..

first you make up a lie of SS bringing SS down, you now go on and mention Asari and Tompolo..bunch of Privateers..

when Obong Victor Attah was campaigning for creation of NDDC, Tompolo was bursting pipelines.....

we SS likes our peaceful freedom fighters..[/size]

vladimiros:
[size=13pt]Look, this is Africa and this is Nigeria...

Things wont change overnight...

lets use my state Akwa ibom for example..

back in 1998, the capital Uyo was a glorified shithole..but thanks to the efforts of our South South brothers, we got our derivation which was not what we wanted, but we also got a commission to build infrastructure that commision names is NDDC..

now it wont remain at 13% forever, even the Fulanis and the Niger Delta slaves like Rotimi Ameachi know this, we would clamour for more, as long as Buhari ignores the confab report we would cry for more..

so now we are stuck with 13% derivation and an EXTRA Investment Fund into our people and development in the name of NDDC[/size]

koma1:
mumu where is the evidence that the voices belong to an hausa and yoruba man. anybody can record anything and spread it online just to cause problem. I suspect pro biafra supporters