₦airaland Forum

hisexcellency34:
The Chairman, Bayelsa State Traditional Rulers Council, and Ibenanaowei of Ekpetiama Kingdom, King Bubaraye Dakolo, Agada IV, on Tuesday said it is an insult for the Federal Government to neglect the official security agencies and hire private security outfits to secure oil installations and apprehend oil thieves.

The monarch who authored a book ‘The Riddle of the Oil Thief’ was reacting to the contract awarded by the Federal Government to Tantita Security Services Limited, the pipeline surveillance security outfit owned by the former militant leader, High Chief Government Ekpemupolo a.k.a. Tompolo.

Speaking on Arise TV, he said hiring the likes of Tompolo to secure oil installations while the Navy and other security agencies are neglected is an aberration which shows how low Nigeria has become.

Dakolo who said oil thieves can end in two weeks if the President is serious about it also said Nigerian security agencies can end oil theft and secure our installations if the president gives them the marching order to do so.

To do this, the security agencies should be trained and well funded and equipped to carry out their task.

He said "For me, it underscores how low the Nigerian state has descended where it seems to have lost faith in our law enforcements to the level where you want private, perhaps not so well trained hands to help to do the job. It is so because our economy is in tatters. There is no job for people so everyone wants to look at how to make a living out of everything and you want to engage them in that manner".

"First and foremost, if the government of Nigeria were able to get the economy of Nigeria working to the point where it was a dollar to a naira, I can tell you that people will not want to go and vandalise oil installations. If the Nigerian economy becomes robust, I can tell you that most people will not want to get interested in what they are being contracted to do today".

"What the Nigerian state ought to do is to equip the Navy, give them more funds, equip law enforcements and give them more trainings to be professional. Bringing in hands that are not trained to come and do a job meant for the Navy is an insult to the Nigerian state and insult to the Navy. I think Nigerian state will benefit more if they pump in more resources to the Navy and give them the marching order to deal with the oil thieves".
"Right now, what we are seeing is an aberration that shouldn’t be seen or told. The private contractors should have been faceless. The best they could have done is to give intelligence to the official law enforcements like the Navy or JTF".

https://worldviewafrica.com/fg-contracting-tompolo-others-to-secure-oil-facilities-shows-how-low-nigeria-has-gone-dakolo/

MS247:
Nonsense


Private security guard are effective in terrain not known to military

TheNiceGuy:
Each State in Southwest has her own Flag, logo, slogan/anthem.

Here are these ones chasing shadow, dancing to the tune of Adeleke while feigning ignorance they're obeying one Court order.

They should misbehave while it lasts because it will be reimplemented by successive OSHA.

Jokers

Obagreatdatoye:
Stop talking nonsense...if ijaw wants to be a
governor, they should go to bayelsa or Delta and stop being a nuisance...

Abjinvest:
Stop projecting the heinous acts on others simply because it is done by your tribe.

Their is systemic marginalization against ijaws in Ondo state. Evidence abounds. Just a simple internet search proves this.

The world is keeping silent while ijaws are being eliminated in their identities and lives.

Judybash93:
It's a crocodile! There are no alligators in Africa except if you go to the zoo

Ever8090:
The Igbos should have requested for a sea port in Anambra instead than disturbing some of us with their presidency ambition that saw us become obedient,. It is painful to know that all my participation in the obedient movement was in vain as it was all about a sea port and not presidency

Ibime:
Ijaw has different dialects. Okrika is different from Kalabari which is different from Ibani. Western Ijaw is also different from Eastern Ijaw. It is just like Portuguese and Spanish. They understand each other but they cannot speak in the other tongue.


For example, for 'How are you', a Kalabari man would ask 'Tobra?' and you would answer 'Ibim' or 'Ibiwirere'  (I am good)

An Okrika man would ask 'Idanloku?' and you would answer 'Ibime'

GodIsBiafran:
There is nothing like Ijaw culture. Any culture Ijaw claim is borrowed from us, Igbos.

mariovito:
b
make doctors for that state withdraw their services from any damn police man make we see who go blink first.

SlayerForever:
You are desperate. All the major cultural events lined up in Bonny and Opobo this Christmas are all Igbo festivals. Every cultural masquerade group is getting ready for their Nwaotam and boat regatta display. This year there's going to be Abam headhunters display like is seen in Ohafia. They are putting things in place to impress their Igbo brothers that will be flooding both islands. But here you are showing us this thing nobody will see this December. Even this people in the video will come and watch Ugele Mkpa this December. Nwanne ndo oooo.

SlayerForever:
You are desperate. All the major cultural events lined up in Bonny and Opobo this Christmas are all Igbo festivals. Every cultural masquerade group is getting ready for their Nwaotam and boat regatta display. This year there's going to be Abam headhunters display like is seen in Ohafia. They are putting things in place to impress their Igbo brothers that will be flooding both islands. But here you are showing us this thing nobody will see this December. Even this people in the video will come and watch Ugele Mkpa this December. Nwanne ndo oooo.

Anonymous15:
Igbo hatred for Ijaw will never allow Igbo to achieve their plans. This one too much ooo!

and there is no other ethnic group in bayelsa except the ijaws.
kolokuma, Epie etc ARE CLANS OR TRIBES under the ijaws.
infact there are 51 clans or tribes which are descendants of ijo and they are stretched across bayelsa, rivers, akwa ibom, ondo, delta, edo.

there are also ijaws in Sierra Leone and Gabon who are migrant fishermen.

ThickSharon123:
please u people should stop this, Igbo people even join the Yoruba to sing their songs in Yoruba land, when u heard Igbo songs in Nembe, doesn't make Nembe to be Igbo.

You people are deluded. There was no Igbo slaves for Ijaw. God forbid, where do you people concort your story from.

There was Igbo slaves but your judiciary and governmental area in the former time was the Aro god.

Stop changing history, you people are mad because Igbo spilled into other areas, and are greater than you people, so you people cannot take it rather you resort to lies from the pit of hell.

If I said, oh Nembe is Ijaw and this girl said so. You'll be like, yes...but there are proofs online of people going there and interacting with the people, there's even one on YouTube were we could hear them clearly speaking Igbo, you have a search engine research it yourself and check out facts.

Rather than filling hurt, because you want Bayelsa state only for you, so any other major tribe that you see there, you try to topple them down. Isn't that witchcraft.

Keep on speaking for the Nembe people, before you people said Opobo wasn't Igbo, now there's proof becuase someone had to go to the land and bring you proof, you guys are quiet.

Why don't you head to the Nembe streets, show us the street name and all as proof, go around the area and hear them talk, or go to the chiefs in the land, and let's have our evidence too, rather than you exchanging batter here that holds nothing.

Lovelyn451:
what language is spoken in nembe?

SlayerForever:
Nembe are Igbo people. It's a pity our Igbo brothers in Bayelsa have had their environment destroyed.

iyke2frankeze:
thank you my man, u know many people are ignorance of police ethic.

Any Police officer tracking phones have to pay the ICT personnel that will provide information on the location of the criminals and you don't expect the police officer to fund the tracking with his small salary. Their only work is to use the information given to them about the location, movement, the phone number of both the criminal and phone numbers of the people that usually interact with him on phone and heat map of their target to locate the person. They once helped in tracking my friends lost phone and were impressed by their performance. It is the government that has failed to equip the Nigerian Police properly. So community instead of providing the N60, 000 will prefer to pay N30, 000,000.00 to the bandits?

Kreamie:
Should we surprised?



Extortion is in their constitution.

He is an illaje from ondo state. Their language is similar to yoruba and itsekiri.

Kwanza:
https://dailypost.ng/2021/11/10/senate-moves-to-include-kogi-bauchi-others-amongst-niger-delta-commission/

athaboi:
This beautiful woman??

ChinenyeN:
Yes, definitely. I know a few people from various places throughout the Lower Niger who can confirm that at least one of their grandparents were Saro. I also wouldn’t be surprised if there were a bit of higher concentration of Saro in the riverine parts of the Lower Niger. Compared to most other communities in Southern Nigeria (aside from Lagos), the Ijaw had well-known controversial relationship with the Saro as far as politics and governance.

We don’t hear anything about it now perhaps because the Saro in the area have been effectively absorbed into the local communities that they resettled in.

ChinenyeN:
There are black Africans who did arrive with Europeans in the 19th century, but they were not Ijaw. As in, “Ijaw”, as an ethnic community, did not come to Nigeria as European indentured servants. Ijaw oral traditions suggest that they were just as established in Nigeria as other groups by the time Europeans arrived, and this can be corroborated with the oral traditions of other groups.

If I had to hazard a guess, it is most likely the case that this story of “arriving with Europeans” refers to the “Saro” people (Sierra Leoneans). They were actually returnees (formerly enslaved), and they came from different ethnic communities in Nigeria.

Many southern Nigeria communities have one story or another that refers to this returnee migration. I don’t know how it came to be associated with Ijaw, especially since there was known tension between Ijaw and some Saro returnees.

Long story short, it seems that people now use returnee migration to spite Ijaw people for whatever reason. At least, this is my interpretation. Perhaps someone who knows better might be able to clarify things or correct me where I may be mistaken.

Supersami:
While i am still an unemployed graduate looking for job. Bayelsa my state.

Freemanbobble:
Nigerians and their mentality

Instead of them to unite
But they will be fighting for territorial supremacy

That is how ijaw is struggling over gelegele in Edo state

seunmsg:
The trade unionist are just clowns. Two of their top ministers are in Nigeria begging almost anybody that is ready to listen to them and these union clowns are talking about banning made in Nigeria goods. They better not allow us rescind the decision to create a temporary corridor for Ghanaian goods.

Nigeria has not banned importation of goods from any country, so, why ban our products? When we say Nigeria is the giant of Africa, some of these tiny countries come here to argue with us. We closed our land borders for just some few weeks now and they are all crying. Even Ghana that has no land border with Nigeria is crying. Who is now their Daddy?