Clinton594:
Nigeria ahhhhh, why send foot soldiers for what is navy's specialty

Which navy are you talking about? Wetin nigerian navy sabi?

No ooo 200 please not 50 foolish boys

cktheluckyman:
Imagine carrying hausa-fulani soldiers who has never seen a river in their life to go and fight on water!!! smh at the cluelessness of this regime.To think it was the same poor villagers they are persecuting in the search for tompolo that saved lots of them

LOL.

People that are saying the Navy should have been sent do not know the nature of warfare, this is guerrilla warfare albeit mainly on water but also on land. America will not even send the Navy to fight this kind of war talk less of Nigeria, maybe special forces but it's still an infantry man fight not Navy except it's naval special forces. What does rank and file Nigerian navy know about warfare except fighting Mobile policemen.

TheEclectic:


It sounds funny and ridiculous but true. Most naval officers can't swim. The few that can manage to swim are just child's play. They can't even stay submerged in water for one minute. I say this authoritatively because I'm a barrack boy with military background.

Wawu insanity at every corner of the country like cobwebs

vislabraye:
This is becoming scary. Buhari should handle this delicate situation skillfully. We will all suffer it. Everything is not force.
Buhari appears like someone on a revenge mission. The first week he became president, he bombed the creeks in Niger Delta. Meanwhile, he had not lifted a finger against bokoharam. I think people are giving him wrong advice. He should be seen as a friend to every person.
This battle can be avoided. Try negotiating with these guys instead of beating your chest. They are not like bokoharam.

So what are they like? World power?

brownskindude:
I knew the Nigerian army where lying. They can't match those militants power for power or strength for strength. Their drills are far tougher than that of the Nigerian army. I'm currently at Ogunu in Warri and I can tell you no level for the military.

And you are happy about that?

dulux07:

Really , the same thing they said back then about asari dokubo and his team during obasanjo tenure, the same thing was said about bokoharam during GeJ tenure. What can we say abt them now.

There is no terror group our soldiers cant match, its just a matter of time, intelligence and motivation.

Funny thing is when its starts they will begin call ICC

Splinz:
Apparently, this claim by NDA is likely to be true. We all know that a sizable number of our soldiers are not well trained in demanding terrain like the creeks, and sheer skipping of training due to man-know-man. Is this how NA will win this war, by trial and error? Wish them good luck.

are you a nigerian at all, you want militants to win your country,to cripple our economy and later you will be shoUt buhari this buhari that

promisechild:
my brother do you really know what you are saying? dialogue gini? with criminals right? my brother it is a no no agenda for the government to dialogue with these criminals. The painful part here is that the innocent ones in that region will surely bear the bruise of these criminals. No sect can ever hold a government for a ransom.

this struggle goes beyond the militants if you ask me...Niger deltans want resource control. ...The FG needs to dialogue with the Niger delta as a whole and not he militants...

promisechild:
don't be cajoled by the Avengers they are just trying to appeal to our emotions. what is our business if the NA are dying. It is the duty of NA to defend the sovereignty of the country because it resides in them. NDA your days are numbered on earth I know you guys are on nairaland but I bet you guys will not see the end of this movie.

sovereignty or cage

billyG:
This is a Big pfucking Lie!How can 50 soldiers in life vests in a Boat just drown & d NDA did not shoot @ them.

I don't think the nda is after the lives of the military...We all know what they want...

Who is fooling who? these so called NDA knows how much damage they have caused to the Niger delta people and their environments he who feels it knows it. more so because the visionary and well focused governor Obiano was trying to analyse what actually transpired between the I PO B and the security agencies, the so called NDA was trying to canter him by coining what did not actually happened in Niger Delta and tribune on line I hope not Nigerian tribune went haywire to publish it. Well, to a medicine man a deceased village is a good a good village and to a media man bad news is a good breaking news.

You don't send soldiers to the creeks.
What happened to the Nigerian Navy.

Mekwen:
Funny thing is when its starts they will begin call ICC

it will surely involve ICC if innocent persons are killed...let's say a genocide...let the military fish out the militants and kill them if they want to...but if they go about killing innocent persons like the shiite massacre then the ICC would step in..


A referendum and a push for true federalism would end this struggle...what is so hard for the FG to for once think differently...what..

I dnt really know why in everything, dis country is left behind.dis is d work of Nigerian navy specially trained for such mission for God sake.why send military personnel that lacked d technicalities of fighting within that kind of territory.Nigeria is a fail state.

dipznano:
Smh, Soldiers still drown in the 21st century?
How the 4k did they make the military?

Well it's 9ja, won't be surprised if some naval officers can't swim!


Or better still, the avengers should say something reasonable

i have a friend whose brother is a navy officer and he cant swim

My Letter To Niger Delta Avengers And Their Supporters.
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Before I start I have a few questions for you supporters.
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1. Where did the Niger Delta Struggle go to in the last 6 years'
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2. Why is there so much vandalization of oil facilities off late'
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3. Is it true you don't want Tompolo arrested
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4. Is the allegations leveled on Tompolo true' If no, why has he not honoured the invitation and if yes, then the so called development money you are looking for was outrightly swallowed by him.
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Thank you, permit me to roll in my mind on the issue on ground.
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Before the emergence of Goodluck Ebele Jonathan as president, the likes of
Ankio Briggs,
Asari Dokubo,
OpunaboNkot 'Tariah,
Ledum Metee,
Edwin Clark etc were always on Television telling Nigerians and the world how the South-South has been marginalized by the North and the West despiteher oil.
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By divine and metaphysical error, Goodluck Jonathan from the South-South, the presumed Nazareth of Nigeria became the president of Nigeria after President Umaru Yaradua's death in 2009.His emergence came as a joyous daybreak to end our age-long marginalization.
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There was a beacon light of hope for my region. Immediately, the Niger Delta struggle stumbled and died or gone Comatose.
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The Niger Delta activists mentioned above became Jonathan's spokespersons and abandoned the struggle. In 2011, Nigerians, Hausa,Yoruba, Igbo, Christians and Muslims voted massively for Jonathan. Thereafter, administrative thieves were appointed Ministers and head of federal institutions,- Convicted criminals received presidential pardon.- Militants were given contracts running into billions of Naira.- Impunity and corruption became the norm.
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All these and many more replaced the Niger Delta struggle for resource control. The need for constant electricity, portable water, good health facilities, good road network, massive manpower development etc went into oblivion. Even the recent Ogoni UNEP report that would have changed the live of an average Ogoni man was not implemented by their regional brother - president. Recall that NDDC was established by Olusegun Obasanjo a Yoruba man. Ministry of Niger and Amnesty Office was established by Late,President Umaru Musa Yaradua, a Northerner. Regrettably, this two federal agencies including NIMASA and NNPC became conduit pipes for Jonathan's Wife, Nyesom Wike, Deziani Allison, Godswill Apkabio and many cronies of Jonathan to Molest and siphon funds meant for the development of the Niger Delta region.
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Credibility died.
Equity died.
Competence died.
Due process died.
Conscience died.
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And the Niger Delta struggle died in their son's hand.
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Former Governor Rotimi Amaechi, knowing that the South - South may not have the opportunity of Producing the President of Nigeria again cried out and they called him a betrayer. They fought him with federal might and pushed him out of PDP, a replicate of what Joseph's brothers did when they sold him to the Ishmelites.
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But today Amaechi is laughing because they pushed him to stardom.
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Even the East/ West road that was awarded by former President Obasanjo and inherited by Yaradua and later Jonathan is still not completed.
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Bayelsa State today does not have an airport or a strong federal government institution that can generate employment opportunities for Bayelsa youths. Few months to the Presidential election, Ankio Briggs, Asari Dokubo, Edwin Clark, Nyesom Wike, Tompolo Government, Kingsley Kuku, etc awaken the Niger Delta struggle.
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What a shame, What an irony'
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For five years nobody heard them because they were swimming and sleeping on money. When Goodluck Ebele Jonathan eventually contested and lost the 2015 Presidential election to Gen. Muhammadu Buhari of the APC,the House of Assembly of all South-South states became a compensation point for militants ( Former and Active).Everything was done with the police and INEC to ensure that cronies of Jonathan and his wife were declared winners of the governorship and House of Assembly elections in the South-South especially Rivers State and Bayelsa.
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And if Jonathan had won the last election and ruled for another ten years, there won't be any hope for the actualization of the Niger Delta Struggle.
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Go to Oloibiri and other villages in Ijaw land and see the level of environmental degradation yet their son was president of Nigeria for six years.
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People are living a stone-age life over there, no land to build a house, no pipe burn water, no hospital, no school and no road yet some people will seat in Abuja and Portharcourt collecting billions of Naira as Champions of the Niger Delta struggle.
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I read some few days ago that the President has directed the release of the funds meant for the clean up of Ogoni Land. What their own son was reluctant to implement after spending a whole six years in office, but here is a man in less than 1 year set up a committee to look into the delay and now they are ripe to implement.
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Who is fooling who? Are they fighting for the cause of Niger Delta or their pockets?
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When you bomb an oil installation, you put your own people at risk health wise.
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Your waters in the village is contaminated
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You reduce the federal allocation to the state
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You reduce power supply capacity.
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Buhari does not stay in your village, he does not need water to drink from your village, the power supply any where he is will not blink a second even if you decide to bomb your whole village. This is a compendium og foolishness.
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The people who will suffer from the mental selfish exercise were not empowered the last 6 years, those who benefited from the loots have squandered the loots on women, drinks and landed property if not why has Tompolo even after his bank account was frozen and some of his property sealed by the federal government, he still choose to be in hiding.
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Niger Deltans Be Wise!
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What Good luck could not give to them in the last 6 years, they now want Buhari to give them in 1 year, madness indeed.

promisechild:
don't be cajoled by the Avengers they are just trying to appeal to our emotions. what is our business if the NA are dying. It is the duty of NA to defend the sovereignty of the country because it resides in them. NDA your days are numbered on earth I know you guys are on nairaland but I bet you guys will not see the end of this movie.

I wonder when NDA becomes d spokesperson of d Nigeria military. If Nigeria soldiers die, though I commiserate with them, but it is the duty they signed for. NDA shuld stop the destruction or else their community will be destroyed within minutes. Let the SS and SE ask their political leaders to account for the oil producing states special allocation they get every month. your pple embezzled ur funds and u start to blame FG.

What is Navy doing at least they are trained on both water and land

Nairalanders, I said it! This one is not backed up by pictures and see how my people are celebrating the avengers victory! Chei, wonders!

promisechild:
don't be cajoled by the Avengers they are just trying to appeal to our emotions. what is our business if the NA are dying. It is the duty of NA to defend the sovereignty of the country because it resides in them. NDA your days are numbered on earth I know you guys are on nairaland but I bet you guys will not see the end of this movie.

What a joke of a man are thou. The real criminal here is the so called federal government . Ask yourself the question. Are we practicing unitary system of government or federal system? If we are practicing federal system of government like America, why didn't we allow the niger delta to be in control of thier oil just like America allows Texas' the control of thier oil? Why are the north this greedy self

God Bless Niger Delta Avengers

engrchykae:
i have a friend whose brother is a navy officer and he cant swim

Smh... this country is far worse than we think

lie lie government

Jirate:
It not How Many soldiers that have lost their lives that matters but How many Lives have you guys Touched Positively with your nefarious Activities.

those soldiers were peoples father's o...so their lives mattered.....abi u wan go replace them?

brownskindude:
I knew the Nigerian army where lying. They can't match those militants power for power or strength for strength. Their drills are far tougher than that of the Nigerian army. I'm currently at Ogunu in Warri and I can tell you no level for the military.

menh una dey fall our military hand o.

engrchykae:
i have a friend whose brother is a navy officer and he cant swim

Smh... this country is far worse than we think

Bluffly:
What is Navy doing at least they are trained on both water and land

same question I ask myself every blessed day.

DCONE1:
are you a nigerian at all, you want militants to win your country,to cripple our economy and later you will be shoUt buhari this buhari that

we are not Nigerians for your information Nigeria is a scam we want Niger delta republic thank you

vislabraye:
This is becoming scary. Buhari should handle this delicate situation skillfully. We will all suffer it. Everything is not force.
Buhari appears like someone on a revenge mission. The first week he became president, he bombed the creeks in Niger Delta. Meanwhile, he had not lifted a finger against bokoharam. I think people are giving him wrong advice. He should be seen as a friend to every person.
This battle can be avoided. Try negotiating with these guys instead of beating your chest. They are not like bokoharam.

No negotiations please. Negotiations with the yorubas (OPC) produced two presidential candidates (Our and Olufalae), Ojo became president. Negotiations with the Niger Delta Militants Produced, GEJ. Boko Haram frustrated GEJ, to produce PMB. How long shall we continue to negotiate with terrorist groups like OPC, NDM, Boko Haram. Now the IPOB terrorist are on the rampage, the Fulani Jihadist or harder are lurking around. Enough of negotiations, anyone who picks up arms against the nation is a terrorist, anyone who use arm against his neighbor is armed robber or murder. No more negotiations.