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It's a good thing idiots like him are no longer in a position of authority. It's because of his kind of ideaology that Nigeria is in the problem we are in today. People like him are just thirsty for power.

He can keep regretting that's his problem. We are moving on wheater he likes it or not. By the way, Nigeria's credit rating has improved and we're now level with countries like Brazil. ---Fitch Rating----

http://www.guardiannewsngr.com/news/article07/310606

Unidentified gunmen have stormed the offices of Italian oil company Agip in Port Harcourt, southern Nigeria.

At least nine people were killed in the assault. It is reported that seven of the dead were policemen and two were civilians working at the complex.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4644324.stm

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These are the kind of ideas and suggestions indigenes should be pestering their Local Governments to move on. This kind of political lobbying is the only way foward to acheiving development in the Niger Delta and establishing the first requirement for investment. SECURITY.

issac boro
You know nigeria now you talk about ken saro wiwa when he tried what did they do to him he was accused of treason and was executed right now i know you are a one of those people that is biased in reasonning.

Saro Wiwa was executed by a dictatorship and the whole of Nigreria suffered greatly for it. Indeed we are still suffering fromit with the all the infrastructural decay we have in the country. I can harzard a guess and say that a democratic government will not go that route.

issac boro
Don't you know that they have gone the dialogue way with out success.
When dialogue leads no where force has to be applied.

Then you can expect more bloodshed, majority of which I'm sure you reliase will be niger deltans. The only way you can corner and get more concessions from the federal government is if peaceful means are applied.

issac boro
Those people you call criminals will be in heaven before you they will be call meatyr and their names will be in histor as people that fought for there rights and they won.

Your version of heaven must be different to mine. These people are criminals and they will die like dogs and be forgotten in less than a month if they continue. The end CANNOT justify the means. This is what prevents us from descending into anarchy.
The militants have won nothing and will win nothing. The only thing they have so far achieved is the massing of military units in and around Bayelsa and general condemnation from the international community. As for history, it will write itself.

issac boro
This is the basics that america was built upon and have you forgetten so fast ukrain when they fought for there rights.

The Ukraine didn't kidnap people, murder Russian personnel, and blow up Russian facilities. You should learn from them and change your ideology.

issac boro
You have being given the oppurtunity and the right environment to chase your dreams so please do not deprive anyone of his own dream.
What are the means to fight an oppressor is but his own means or tools.
We will not turn the other cheek so that they will smack us again.

If you choose to go the route of force then I'm afraid you can expect both cheeks to be smacked repeatedly. This is not a fight you can win by strenght of arms. The actions of the militants is what is depriving you of your dream. The sooner you reliase that the sonner you can start to move closer to achieveing your dream. You cannot expect people to try to understand you when you are commiting murder. RULE OF LAW MUST BE MAINTIANED AND IT WILL BE.

Posted by issac boro
You said that they have no reputable people from the niger delta to man good possitions well that is a fat lie because the best results over the years in jamb and ssce are from niger delta.

I made no such claim. Please go back and read my comment again. As regards to your other comments, I don't think there is anyone in their right mind who would say that niger deltans have not been treated unfairly. My point is, the activities of what seems to be a minority of niger deltans is not helping their cause one bit. Can you imagine if they had someone like Ken Saro Wiwa alive today. He would achieve so much more today than these idiots (militants, comrades, etc) with guns ever will in their life time.

Posted by issac boro
Ask yourself this question is it fair for the goose that lays the golden egg to suffer?
Look at the top management of all the oil companies you will never find somebody from the niger delta as a top exec all you will find are yorubas,ibos and hausas.

I don't know about the past under other governments, but these days I am led to believe that such positions are aquired on merrit. Can you mention anyone from the Niger Delta, whose qualifications surpass those of the people in management right now?

Posted by issac boro
This thing that is happenning now is just the tip of the ice berge wait when all the tribes in the niger delta should unite then you know the entity call nigeria will be no more there will be more chaos then you can think and i fear for the innocient man the that will be caught in the cross fire.

Such a funny statement. You make this comment and yet below you accuse someone of saying that niger deltans should be slaughtered when you are the one spoiling for a fight. It is amazing to see that you seem to not know that it is niger deltans that would suffer a great deal should a war break out.

Posted by issac boro
Are you thinking straight at all that is worst statement to come out of your mouth and i want you to take it back fast.
So you want them to kill everybody because they are fight for there rights you should be slaughtered in your own blood and i hope you rot in hell for ever.

See my comment above

Posted by issac boro
You yourself knows that without the niger delta youyr father would not have being able to educate you and the place you work today they cannot pay you where do you think the funds are comming from ok from the cocoa farms in oyo state or the pyramids of groundnut in the north.
The wealth of nigeria come from the niger delta and am say 100% of it and the other part do not contribut nothing absolute nothing.
Every state should contribute is own quota to the fedral purse not the federal purse allovating to staes from the federal purse this is cheating.
We are not operating true federalism we are operating dispotic state.
Monkey dey work bamboo dey chop.

This is true. It is my hope that in the near future, our political system will change. However people need to learn that violence will never change anything. All it will do is kill more people. There are other ways to acheive this end. As much as Niger Deltans and Ijaws in particular seem to hate the oil companies, they are probably one of the most important factors you can have on your side for this debate. Blowing up their oil facilities and trying to economically sabotage the Nigerian economy will not get any Nigerians or foreign countries on your side. Only pain and blood will result from such actions as has been proved from similar conflicts around the world.

I just thought I would add a couple of links that seem to shed more light on who these people that claim to be the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) really are.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/articles/2002/headline/f121012006.html

http://www.vanguardngr.com/articles/2002/cover/january06/21012006/f221012006.html

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