₦airaland Forum

Before I start I have a few questions for you supporters.

1. Where did the Niger Delta Struggle go to in the last 6 years?
2. Why is there so much vandalization of oil facilities off late?
3. Is it true you don't want Tompolo arrested?
4. Is the allegations leveled against 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.
Thank you, permit me to roll in my mind on the issue on the ground.

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 despite her oil.

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 2010.His emergence came as a joyous daybreak to end our age-long marginalization .
There was a beacon light of hope for my region. Immediately, the Niger Delta struggle stumbled and died or gone Comatose.

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.
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 Delta 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. Credibility died, Equity died, Competence died, Due process died, Conscience died, And the Niger Delta struggle died in their son's hand.

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.
But today Amaechi is laughing because they pushed him to stardom.

Even the East/ West road that was awarded by former President Obasanjo and inherited by Yaradua and later Jonathan is still not completed.
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.

What a shame, What an irony 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.
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.

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.
People are living a stone-age life over there, no land to build a house, no pipe borne water, no hospital, no school and no road yet some people will seat in Abuja and Port Harcourt collecting billions of Naira as Champions of the Niger Delta struggle.

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.
Who is fooling who? Are they fighting for the cause of Niger Delta or their pockets?
When you bomb an oil installation, you put your own people at risk health wise.Your waters in the village is contaminated. You reduce the federal allocation to the state You reduce power supply capacity.

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 or foolishness.
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.
Niger Deltans Be Wise!

What Dr Goodluck could not give to them in the last 6 years, they now want Buhari to give them in 1 year.

Lalasticlala plsss read this

they will call you Yoruba very soon.

Money makes our leaders sell out their people.

I don't support the destruction of critical infrastructures as a means of getting back at the government. Maybe as a last resort if all negotiations fail but I want Nigeria restructured according to the extant manifesto of APC.

Having stated my stand already, it looks like this your epistle is a political blackmail against the opposition supporters and before you contemplate otherwise remember that some of NDA supporters are doing so based on the following:

1. To Force APC Government under Buhari to constitute it's own Sovereign National Conference they promised Nigeria.

2. To Force this government to be more focused on diversification instead of solely relying on Crude Oil as the country's sole foreign exchange earner.

3. To bargain a better share of the cash accruing from sale of crude oil and intensive development for the Niger Delta region.

4. To get back at APC and Buhari for being sympathetic to Bokoharam, a terrorist organization that destabilized Jonathan's government and engulfed 20% of our budget that would've been used for capital development.

5. Marginaliztion.

Before you blame them without recourse to political dynamics of Nigeria remember former and serving Governors of Northern Nigeria once apologized to Bokoharam and encouraged their resilience and supported their right to religious liberty.

Yuguda and Goje were apparently responding to Boko Haram's demand for apologies as a precondition for dialogue with government. The question now becomes, why can't Buhari respond in whatever small measure to NDA's demands (at least Amaechi should apologize and the maritime university startup date announced) to elicit confidence building and see how the militants will respond.



Governor Isa Yuguda and Danjuma Goje apologise to Boko Haram

The Bauchi State governor and the former Gombe State governor react to statements by the radical Islamic sect that it would hunt them down

Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State and Senator Danjuma Goje from Gombe State have publicly appologised to radical Islamic sect, Boko Haram, for any rights violations suffered during the military crackdown on its leaders in 2009.

"I apologise to the members of Jama'atu Ahlussunnah lidda'awati wal Jihad for perceived injustices caused them as they have the full rights to be protected by the law," Yuguda said in a statement on Saturday."I hope this will further the healing of the trauma on Jama'atu Ahlussunnah, and open the door to meaningful dialogue that will end hostilities and usher peace for which the religion of Islam is all about."

Goje, the former governor of Gombe, said: "as a true Muslim, who believes in peace and brotherhood, I hereby tender my public apology to the organisation for any wrong done to it in the course of performing my duty as the then governor of Gombe State".

Boko Haram, which also goes by the name Jama'atu Ahlussunnah lidda'awati wal Jihad, is based in Borno State, but has also been active in nearby Bauchi and Gombe. It has claimed responsibility for series of attacks on security operatives and politicians in the region.

Yuguda and Goje were apparently responding to Boko Haram's demand for apologies as a precondition for dialogue with government.

In a recent media report, Abu Zaid, the spokesman for Boko Haram, had said the sect would hunt down the governors of Borno, Bauchi and Gombe. "We would not relent in our efforts of searching for them until they come out publicly and apologize," he allegedly said.

Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State had already offered amnesty any member of the sect who renounces violence. However, Boko Haram has continued to demand for a wider application of Sharia Law in the north.

http://dailytimes.com.ng/article/yuguda-and-goje-apologise-boko-haram

krazykoons:
they will call you Yoruba very soon.

Lol..... I be confirm hausa boi from Gombe!!!! Lets keep sentiment aside and be realistic. We have a long way to go in this country