Even as government continue working on its amnesty offer to militants and the escalating crisis in the Niger Delta continue to take its toll on the economy, militants continue to sabotage the oil installations.
By Oluokun Ayorinde/ Abuja
In the Niger Delta, it has been stories of deaths, bombings, massive displacements of the populace, accusations and counter accusations for some weeks now, as men of Joint Task Force, JTF, continue the battle to dislodge militants who have made the creeks of the region their den in the past few years. But in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, the concern is more about the effects the continuing war-like situation in the oil producing region is having on the Nigerian economy, as revealed by no less a personality than President Umaru Yar’Adua himself some weeks ago. “Developments in the nation’s Niger Delta region over the past few weeks have necessitated the Federal Government’s decisive action against armed criminal elements. The criminals have hijacked genuine agitations in the region and constituted themselves into very real threats to Nigeria’s national security and economic survival”, the President said while receiving the report of the Presidential Panel on Amnesty and Disarmament of Militants.
President Yar’Adua had in the face of the military onslaught and the accompanying refugee situation indicated his intention to grant amnesty to any of the militants who voluntarily surrenders his arms and ammunitions and promised to give up armed struggle against the Nigerian state which has so far manifested in form of attack on crucial oil facilities, kidnappings and illegal bunkering. However, the amnesty offered so far, seems not to have succeeded in getting the militants to stop inflicting more bruises on the already ailing Nigerian economy. Indeed, MEND, the main militant group in the region had in reaction to operations by the JTF earlier this month declared what it said is an “all-out oil war”, aimed at completely halting the country’s oil production as a way of inflicting further damage on the economy. The group had in the past few weeks demonstrated that it was not blowing just hot air with the threat with intermittent attacks on crude oil production and transportation infrastructure.
In the early hours of Sunday, 21 June, MEND in an email to media houses, announced that it had inflicted more damage to the Nigerian economy with the sabotage of three facilities belonging to Royal Dutch Shell Oil company, the biggest multinational company operating in the upstream sector of the country’s oil industry: “Hurricane Piper Alpha lashed out at the Shell Off-shore Ofirma oil fields today, Sunday, June 21, at about 0400 Hrs blowing up jacket A in the process,” the group said in the third email it sent in the early hours of that day. MEND had earlier the same day sent two other mails to the media announcing attacks in other places. These include attacks on Shell’s AFREMO off-shore oil fields which is 14 nautical miles from the Forcados export terminal and another major pipeline of the company located at Adamakiri. Two days after, the group destroyed another major pipeline supplying crude oil to Agip’s Ogoda Manifold Brass exports terminal. MEND said the pipeline “was blown up at the Nembe creek in Bayelsa State this morning Friday, 19, June 2009 at about 0300hrs”.The attack on the terminal resulted in production shut in of about 33,000 barrels of oil and two million cubic metres of gas per day, according to an Italian firm. The day before the attack, the militant group had also rendered useless another major crude oil pipeline belonging to Royal Dutch Shell in what it said was “in furtherance of … our campaign to cripple the entire oil and gas export of the Federal Republic of Nigeria”. The Anglo-Dutch oil giant confirmed the attack late that day. The pipeline feeds Shell’s Forcados exports terminal, which had earlier been damaged by militants. “Shell can confirm that the Trans Ramos pipeline at Aghoro -2 community in Bayelsa state was attacked last night. Some oil production has been shut in to avoid potential environmental impact,” the company’s spokesman Precious Okolobo who added that relevant government agencies have been intimated of the development said.
The company had also extended the force majeure it declared on 7 March, 2009, as a result of the damage to its Forcados Trunkline at Chanomi Creek in Delta State by two months due to what Okolobo called “security situation” in the Niger Delta, which necessitated a revision of the Trans-Escravos pipeline repair schedule, owing to security concerns. It was gathered that similar force majeures declared by the company on exports of Bonny Light crude oil as well as the gas supply from the damaged Soku gas plant to the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas, NLNG Limited are still in force. Some reports indicated that about 185,000 barrels oil production per day of crude had been shut in as a result of the attack on Shell.
Chevron, another major oil multinational operating in Nigeria was the first company to be affected in the latest round of campaign by the militant group. The American company had shut down its operations around Delta State after MEND’s first pipeline attack 24 May which resulted in shut in of about 100,000 barrels per day (bpd) of its oil output. Chevron’s Utunana Pumping station, Makaraba-Utunana-Abiteye pipeline, Makaraba Jacket 5 facility and the Abiteye flow station which feeds oil to the Escravos export terminal in Delta State have also come under attack. MEND said it destroyed and then set fire to the Chevron facilities as a revenge for military raids on militants’ camps in the region.
The spate of attacks will no doubt be a source of to Nigeria ’s economic managers who have had to contend with reduced revenue earnings as the crisis in the Niger Delta worsened. Indeed, vandalisation of oil pipelines and attacks on other facilities, including export terminals, have forced down the country’s production capacity from 2.4 million barrels to 1.8 million barrels. The country’s revenue had consequently been reduced from $336 million daily to $252million. The haemorrhage being inflicted on the Nigerian economy by the militants has continued as Mansur Muhtar, the Minister of Finance revealed last Monday that Nigeria recorded a 32 percent shortfall in its revenue target for the first quarter of 2009 as a result of declining oil production and fall in the price of oil in the global market. The minister put total revenue realised in the period at about N384 billion naira ($2.62 billion), compared with budget expectations of N566 billion, while oil revenues were 22 percent below expectations.
The Central Bank of Nigeria also said in a quarterly economic report also issued last Monday that oil output including condensates and natural gas liquids was estimated at 1.68 million bpd in the first quarter, down from 1.87 million bpd in the preceding quarter. It said crude oil exports were estimated at 1.23 million bpd down from 1.42 million in the preceding three-month period. The shortfall is already having its effects on the implementation of the 2009 budget. Muhtar put the percentage of the implementation of the budget at just over 20 per cent in the first quarter of the year in his press release last week. The militants had since then revved up their activities in Niger Delta, reducing Nigeria ’s oil production from the 2.6 million bpd in 2006 to the current level of between 1.6 to 1.8million bpd. Nigeria which was for many years Africa’s leading oil producer has also been overtaken by Angola since the troubles in the Niger Delta started. In the same vein, the persistent sabotage of gas pipelines have been a source of headache and a major hindrance to attempts by government to give Nigerians reliable power supply. The damage done to the Escaravos/ Warri Gas pipeline which supplies gas from Escravos fields of Chevron Nigeria Limited to Nigeria Gas Company, NGC some weeks ago have been cited as a major cause of worsening power outages being experienced for sometime now across the country.
In the same vein, the hope of a reliable power supply or indeed, the promised 6000 megawatts by the end of this year by President Umaru Yar’Adua may remained a mirage unless peace is urgently restored to the Niger Delta. Rilwan Lukman, the Chairman of Power Sector Reform Committee set up by President Umar Yar’Adua to fashion out a way of giving Nigeria reliable electricity supply had noted while submitting its report that there must be peace in the Niger Delta for gas which is necessary for powering power plants being built across the country to be exploited and utilised. Thus, if the militants activities are not curbed, Nigeria ’s hope of ever getting reliable power supply system is nil. The pipeline had suffered similar attacks last year and was repaired at the cost of about $60 million just a couple of months before the latest damage by the militants. The breach of the gas pipeline has not only resulted in reduced gas supply for generation of electricity, NGC has also as a result suspended gas supplies to some industries which use the commodity to power their plants in some parts of the country.
An official of SPDC told journalists in Abuja last year that attacks on his company’s Western Niger Delta oil production facilities, including the offshore EA Field, resulted in the shut in of about 477,000 bpd for most of 2006 and 2007. The SPDC official said the loss to the country from the production shut in for the period was about $14. 4billion. Some recent shut –ins in the industry include SPDC lost of 200,000bpd of Bonny Light since February 2009 and another shut-in of 150,000bpd from Shell’s Forcados terminal since the beginning of March 2009. The company’s EA platform in Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, which produces 115,000bpd, has remained shut-in since February 2006 due to militant attacks, while about 60,000bpd is lost at Bonga deepwater field since the attack on the oil facility by suspected militants in June 2008. ENI of Italy is also losing 60,000bpd since June 2008 with pockets of shut-ins by other companies totalling about 120,000bpd.
Mohammed Barkindo, the Group Managing Director of NNPC, told the Senate committee on Petroleum (upstream) and some stakeholders in the oil and gas industry recently that the country recorded reduction in oil revenue from an average of $2.2 billion monthly recorded in 2008 to about $1 billion in January 2009 with insecurity in Niger Delta as one of the major reasons. There were reports that a Federal Government team which was led by Minister of Interior, Brig-Gen. Godwin Abbe (retd), and the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Mike Okiro, met with representatives of militant leaders in the troubled region last Tuesday. Representatives of some popular militant leaders in the region like Ateke Tom, Soboma George, Boyloaf and Farrah Dagogo reportedly attended the summit where they reportedly demanded for N100 billion in compensation to disarm. MEND, the most organised group in the region has so far also spurned the amnesty offer, as it is insisting on the release of its leader, Henry Okah as the take off point for negotiations with the Yar’Adua government. “The government has simply refused to address the root issues even in its so-called amnesty offer, and it is about time we confront 50 years of beating about the bush head on,” Jomo Gbomo MEND spokesman said in a recent press release.
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29 June 2009 16:48THIS AGF IS THE PROBLEM. THE AGF HAS ALWAYS PUT OBSTACLES ON THE WAY. HIS MAIN AND ONLY INTEREST IS TO PROTECT HIS FRIENDS AND BACKERS, THE CORRUPT AND INDICTED EX GOVERNORS. THE AGF WILL USE ALL AVAILABLE SHENANIGAN TO PROTECT THESE CORRUPT EX GOVERNORS TO EVADE JUSTICE. THE AGF FORGETS THAT JUSTICE, GRINDS SLOWLY BUT SURELY. HE SHOULD ALSO KNOW THAT NIGERIANS ARE VERY PATIENT PEOPLE. THE AGF SHOULD ALSO KNOW THAT EVERY DAY IS FOR THE THIEF BUT ONE DAY IS FOR THE OWNER. THE AGF SHOULD ALSO KNOW THAT NIGERIANS WILL HAVE THE LAST LAUGH AND IT WILL BE A VERY SWEET LAUGH.
NIGER DELTA
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AMNESTY IS NOT AMNESTIA. WHAT IS REQUIRED IN THE NIGER DELTA IS IMMEDIATE MASSIVE ECCONMIC DEVELOPEMENT OF THE AREA AND EMMIDIATE AND MASSIVE ECCONOMIC EMPOWERMENT OF THE PEOPLE OF THE NIGER DELTA. USE THE EXCESS CRUDE MONEY, USE PART OF THE EXTERNAL RESERVE, INTRODUCE WINDFAL TAX ON THE COMPANIES THAT CAUSED THE PROBLEM AND USE THE MONEY TO PROGRESS AND DEVELOPE THE NIGER DELTA. WE NEED AN IMMEDIATE MARTIAL PLAN IN THE NIGER DELTA. PURSUE THIS MARTIAL PLAN, WITH THE SAME ZEAL, VIGOR AND ENTHUSIAZM, AS WAS USED IN BUILDING ABUJA AND ENVIRONS. NO MORE SLOGANS, NO MORE TALKS, NO MORE TITLE TATLE, NO MORE INFANTILE APPROACH TO THE PROBLEMS OF THE NIGER DELTA. NO MORE POSTPONNING OF ACTIONS, NO MORE PROMOSES. IF THEY ARE CRIMINALS JAIL THEM, NAME AND SHAME THEM. NAME THEIR SUPPORTERS AND COLLABORATORS. WE WANT ACTION! ACTION!! ACTION!!! AND WE WANT IT NOW! NOW! NOW!!! NOW!!!. MISS THIS OPPORTUNUTY TO RIGHT THE PAST WRONGS AND MISS IT FOR EVER. MAKE HISTORY MR PRESIDENT.
Niger Delta
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Mr. President now that you have shown good faith, you must take the next bold step. Mr. President you must now put tuor money where your mouth is.
We want ACTION, ACTION ACTION from now on. Mr. President you have taken a very bold step and you must continue as relaxing is not an option NOW.
The problem in the Niger Delta was caused by the followings,
1. The International Multi National companies in the Niger Delta. These companies operate as cow boys and with reckless abandon, They have destroyed the environment, the waters, the lands of the Niger Delta. They polluted the waters, lands and the environment and as a result, the people can not farm on their lands or fish in their waters, which is their main occupations. The people are dieing dailly of diseases, caused by the polution to the environment. These multi nationals build cheap infrastrutures like pipe lines etc., without regards to internationally accepted norms and good practices. There will never do such things in other parts of the world, where they are operating, otherwise they will pay very dearly for such horrible practices. The multi Nationals have made a lot of money from these sharp practices, at the expence of the lives of the people of the Niger Delta.
2. The next offenders are federal and state governments of all shades, both past and present, who have made lot of money by ignoring and encouraging with nods, the multi National companies to get away with murder. .
3. The third group are the so called selfish leaders, or do i say dealears of the Niger Delta, who have also made a lot of money from the sufferings of the people of The Niger Delta, Some of the them and their collaborators, sponsor the criminals, to forment and cause a lot of sufferings to the people of the Niger Delta.
4. The President must without futher delay, publish the names of those, who have been sponsoring these criminals in the Niger Delta. The President must name and shame them.
Now that you have given amnesty, to the genuine agitators, we should now have a truth and reconcilliation commitee, so that we can learn a lesson from all these.
WHAT THE PRESIDENT SHOULD DO NOW!!
The federal government should introduce, a wind fall tax on the huge profits, the multi nationals made over the period and use ALL the money for the IMMEDIATE developement of the Niger Delta and the ecconomic empowerment of the people of the Niger Delta. This is what is done, even in developed countries. In Great Britain, when the Labour came into power, they introdued the wind fall tax, inorder to claw back some of the huge profits, the companies made, when the Conservative party in government, sold very cheaply all government companies during the Privatization process. ALL the money realised was used to creat new jobs and train the unemployed. This move was very popular with the British public. You should bear in mind that, most of the companies, that made the huge profits in The Niger Delta, are British and American companies. This move will be popular in Nigeria and these British and American companies will not fault it. All you have to do is, to refer them to what happened in the United kingdom.
ALL the money realised from the excess crude, which was got any way, from the Niger Delta, should be used for the immediate ecconomic development and empowerment of the people of the Niger Delta.
The federal government should draw down now, 30% of its external revenue for the immediate ecconomic developement of the Niger Delta and ecconomic empowerment of the people of the Niger Delta. The ferderal government should not give the usual excuse, that this draw down will affect the value of the naira, as this is a price that, we should pay for the peace and stability of the Niger Delta and Nigeria. ALL THESE MUST BE DONE NOW!! Mr. President do all these and you have solved the problems in The Niger Delta permanently. If you do ALL of these history and prosterity will remember you very kindly.
NIGER DELTA WAY FORWARD
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Mr. President now that you have shown good faith, you must take the next bold step. Mr. President you must now put tuor money where your mouth is.
We want ACTION, ACTION ACTION from now on. Mr. President you have taken a very bold step and you must continue as relaxing is not an option NOW.
The problem in the Niger Delta was caused by the followings,
1. The International Multi National companies in the Niger Delta. These companies operate as cow boys and with reckless abandon, They have destroyed the environment, the waters, the lands of the Niger Delta. They polluted the waters, lands and the environment and as a result, the people can not farm on their lands or fish in their waters, which is their main occupations. The people are dieing dailly of diseases, caused by the polution to the environment. These multi nationals build cheap infrastrutures like pipe lines etc., without regards to internationally accepted norms and good practices. There will never do such things in other parts of the world, where they are operating, otherwise they will pay very dearly for such horrible practices. The multi Nationals have made a lot of money from these sharp practices, at the expence of the lives of the people of the Niger Delta.
2. The next offenders are federal and state governments of all shades, both past and present, who have made lot of money by ignoring and encouraging with nods, the multi National companies to get away with murder. .
3. The third group are the so called selfish leaders, or do i say dealears of the Niger Delta, who have also made a lot of money from the sufferings of the people of The Niger Delta, Some of the them and their collaborators, sponsor the criminals, to forment and cause a lot of sufferings to the people of the Niger Delta.
4. The President must without futher delay, publish the names of those, who have been sponsoring these criminals in the Niger Delta. The President must name and shame them.
Now that you have given amnesty, to the genuine agitators, we should now have a truth and reconcilliation commitee, so that we can learn a lesson from all these.
WHAT THE PRESIDENT SHOULD DO NOW!!
The federal government should introduce, a wind fall tax on the huge profits, the multi nationals made over the period and use ALL the money for the IMMEDIATE developement of the Niger Delta and the ecconomic empowerment of the people of the Niger Delta. This is what is done, even in developed countries. In Great Britain, when the Labour came into power, they introdued the wind fall tax, inorder to claw back some of the huge profits, the companies made, when the Conservative party in government, sold very cheaply all government companies during the Privatization process. ALL the money realised was used to creat new jobs and train the unemployed. This move was very popular with the British public. You should bear in mind that, most of the companies, that made the huge profits in The Niger Delta, are British and American companies. This move will be popular in Nigeria and these British and American companies will not fault it. All you have to do is, to refer them to what happened in the United kingdom.
ALL the money realised from the excess crude, which was got any way, from the Niger Delta, should be used for the immediate ecconomic development and empowerment of the people of the Niger Delta.
The federal government should draw down now, 30% of its external revenue for the immediate ecconomic developement of the Niger Delta and ecconomic empowerment of the people of the Niger Delta. The ferderal government should not give the usual excuse, that this draw down will affect the value of the naira, as this is a price that, we should pay for the peace and stability of the Niger Delta and Nigeria. ALL THESE MUST BE DONE NOW!! Mr. President do all these and you have solved the problems in The Niger Delta permanently. If you do ALL of these history and prosterity will remember you very kindly.
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Patrick Agbobu
30 June 2009 13:29MR PRESIDENT I HOPE THAT THERE IS NO HIDDEN AGENDA, WITH THIS AMNESTY OF A THING. IT APPEARS THAT THE WAY YOU ARE PURSUING AND PROGRESSING IT, IS BECOMMING WORRYING AND I HOPE YOU ARE NOT UNDER EXTREME PRESSURE, FORM THE CORRUPT AND INDICTED EX GOVERNORS, AS MOST OF THEM ARE THE BACKERS AND COLLABORATORS OF THE CRIMINAL ELEMENTS IN THE NIGER DELTA. THEY ARE MAKING BLOOD MONEY IN ADDITION TO THE ONE THEY LOOTED AND STOLE FROM THE TREASURY. THESE CORRUPT AND INDICTED EX GOVERNORS AND THEIR COLLABORATORS STAND TO BENEFIT MASSIVELY FROM THIS BLANKET AMNESTY OF A THING. YOU SHOULD ALSO REMEMBER THE UNIFORMED PERSONS YOU SENT TO THE NIGER DELTA AS THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF NIGERIA, TO MENTAIN THE PEACE AND SOME OF THEM WERE SLAUGHTERED IN COLD BLOOD BY THE CRIMINALS.
THESE CORRUPT AND INDICTED EX GOVERNORS, ARE THE SAME PERSONS, WHO CLAIMED THAT THEY BANK ROLED YOUR ELECTION AND THEY ARE NOW SAYING THAT THEY WILL ALSO, BANK ROLE YOU 2011 ELECTION. MR PRESIDENT YOU MUST CLEAR THE AIR. NIGER DELTA DOES NOT WANT AMNESTY, AS AMNESTY IS FOR THOSE THAT COMMITED CRIMES, WE IN THE NIGER DELTA DID NOT COMMIT ANY CRIME BY HAVING CRUDE OIL AND GAS. I AM SICK AND TIRED OF PEOPLE PATRONISING US AND THIS MUST STOP.
AMNESTY IS NOT AMNESTIA. WHAT IS REQUIRED IN THE NIGER DELTA IS IMMEDIATE MASSIVE ECCONMIC DEVELOPEMENT OF THE AREA AND IMMEDIATE AND MASSIVE ECCONOMIC EMPOWERMENT OF THE PEOPLE OF THE NIGER DELTA. USE THE EXCESS CRUDE MONEY, USE PART OF THE EXTERNAL RESERVE, INTRODUCE WINDFAL TAX ON THE COMPANIES THAT CAUSED THE PROBLEM AND USE THE MONEY TO PROGRESS AND DEVELOPE THE NIGER DELTA. WE NEED AN IMMEDIATE MARTIAL PLAN IN THE NIGER DELTA. PURSUE THIS MARTIAL PLAN, WITH THE SAME ZEAL, VIGOR AND ENTHUSIAZM, AS WAS USED IN BUILDING ABUJA AND ENVIRONS. NO MORE SLOGANS, NO MORE TALKS, NO MORE TITLE TATLE, NO MORE INFANTILE APPROACH TO THE PROBLEMS OF THE NIGER DELTA. NO MORE POSTPONNING OF ACTIONS, NO MORE PROMOSES. IF THEY ARE CRIMINALS JAIL THEM, NAME AND SHAME THEM. NAME THEIR SUPPORTERS AND COLLABORATORS. WE WANT ACTION! ACTION!! ACTION!!! AND WE WANT IT NOW! NOW! NOW!!! NOW!!!. MISS THIS OPPORTUNUTY TO RIGHT THE PAST WRONGS AND MISS IT FOR EVER. MAKE HISTORY MR PRESIDENT. ABUJA WAS CREATED IN LESS THAN TEN YEARS, WITH MONEY MADE FROM THE NIGER DELTA, WHY NOT THE NIGER DELTA WHERE ALL THE MONEY OF NIGERIA WAS MADE, THIS INCLUDES EXCESS CURDE AND THE HUGE EXTERNAL RESERVE.
STRAT THE IMMEDIATE MASSIVE DEVELOPEMENT OF THE NIGER DELTA NOW!!!!!!
Patrick Agbobu
30 June 2009 22:02Amnesty International has described the crisis in the Niger Delta as a “human rights tragedy,” saying that the people of the area have seen their human rights abused by oil companies which their government cannot hold to account. The group, in a report released on Tuesday, said the situation in the Niger Delta, home to 31 million people, has fuelled anger and conflict. “People living in the Niger Delta have to drink, cook with, and wash in polluted water; they eat fish contaminated with oil and other toxins - if they are lucky enough to still be able to find fish,” said the report. The report stated that the situation in the Niger Delta provides a stark example of the lack of accountability of a government to its people, and of multinational companies’ almost total lack of accountability when it comes to the impact of their operations on human rights. The report titled, “Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta”, was presented by its Head of Business and Human Rights, Audrey Gaughran. It examined oil spills, gas flaring, waste dumping and other environmental impacts of the oil industry, stressing that evidence gathered on pollution and environment damage relates to the operations of Shell, the main oil company operating on land in the Niger Delta. The agency said that the human rights impact of pollution in the Niger Delta is greatly under-reported, adding that the majority of people in the area depend on the natural environment for their food and livelihood, particularly through agriculture and fisheries. Amnesty blames both the government and multi-national oil giants for the rights abuses in sub-Saharan Africa’s most populous country.
Patrick Agbobu
3 July 2009 23:45MR. PRESIDENT YOU ARE NOT LISTENING. YOU SHOULD USE NIGER DELTA MONEY TO DEVELOPE THE NIGER DELTA IMMEDIATELY. ABUJA AND ENVIRONS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPED WITH THE MONEY FROM THE NIGER DELTA. THE SAME INTEREST AND SPEED THAT WAS USED TO DEVELOPE ABUJA SHOULD BE USED TO DEVELOPE THE NIGER DELTA. THIS WILL BE A WIN WIN FOR NIGERIA. THE CRISES WILL STOP, INVESTMENTS WILL RUSH IN, THE YOUTHS WILL BE GAINFULLY EMPLOYED, NIGERIA WILL MAXIMISE HER CRUDE OIL AND GAS PRODUCTIONS,TOURISM WILL FLORISH, NIGERIAN INTELLECTUALS AND BUSINESS PEOPLE ABROAD WILL COME BACK TO NIGERIA AND CREATE A LOT OF JOBS. AS LITTLE AS 100,000.00 (ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND) POUNDS COULD ESTABLISH A SMALL COTTAGE INDUSTRY OF A SMALL FARM AND ABOUT SIX WELL PAID JOBS CAN BE CREATED. BY SIMPLE CALCULATION, ABOUT ONE MILLION NIGERIANS ABROAD CAN RAISE THIS TYPE OF MONEY. THAT IS ABOUT SIX MILLION NEW JOBS. MR. PRESIDENT LISTEN! LISTEN!! LISTEN!!! LISTEN!!!. TIME IS NOT ON OUR SIDE AND YOUR SIDE MAKE HASTE NOW!!!!!
Patrick Agbobu
6 July 2009 22:2545 MILLION NAIRA OVERSEAS TRIP FOR WHAT? THIS IS A SCAM THAT IS HAPPENNING UNDER OUR NOSE. THIS AGF MICHAEL AONDOAKAA IS THE WORST THING THAT HAPPENED TO THIS ADMINISTRATION. I DO NOT SEE THE REASON, WHY THE PRESIDENT IS STILL KEEPING HIM IN HIS CABINET. IT THERE ANYTHING THE PRESIDENT KNOWS, WHICH THE PRESIDENT IS NOT SHARING WITH US? THIS TRIP IS A DELIBERATE WASTE OF PUBLIC FUNDS. WE ALL KNOW WHO THE CULPRITS ARE. THEY ARE IN THE CORRIDOR OF POWER IN THIS ADMINISTRATION AND IN PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION. THEY ARE IN THE PRESENT NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AND PAST ONES. THEIR NAMES ARE IN PUBLIC DOCUMENTS, DISPLAYED BY THE COURTS IN THE USA AND SWIZERLAND. THIS AGF IS PATRONISING NIGERIANS AND HE IS GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER. THIS AGF HAS BEEN DOGGED, IN PROTECTING HIS FRIENDS AND BACKERS, THE CORRUPT AND INDICTED EXGOVERNORS. THE IBORI AND ASSOCIATES, MONEY LAUNDARY AND FRAUD CASE WITH THE LONDON METROPOLITAN POLICE, IS ONE OF THEM. THE AGF PLACED A LOT OF ABSTACLES, ON THE WAY OF THE METROPOLITAN POLICE, SO THAT THEY CAN NOT GET IBORI AND ASSOCIATES. NOW HE IS SEEKING COOPERATION WITH THE SAME INTERNATIONAL POLICE. SHAME ON YOU AGF MICHAEL AONDOAKAA. THESE SAME CORRUPT AND INDICTED EXGOVERNORS RECCOMENDED THE AGF FOR THE POST. IT WAS REGARDED AS ONE OF THE PAY BACKS, FROM THE PRESIDENT, AS THESE CORRUPT AND INDICTED EXGOVERNORS CLAIMED THAT THEY BANK ROLED THE PRESIDENT’S ELECTION. THERE IS A POPULAR SAYING, WHICH SAYS THAT, SHOW ME YOUR FRIENDS AND I WILL TELL YOU WHAT YOU ARE. MR PRESIDENT IF THESE CORRUPT AND INDICTED EXGOVERNORS ARE YOUR FRIENDS, THEN IT MEANS A LOT. MR. PRESIDENT HAS NOT COME OENLY TO DENY THE CLAIMS OF THESE CORRUPT AND INDICTED EXGOVERNORS. MR. PRESIDENT SILIENCE IN LAW MEANS ACCEPTANCE. MR. PRESIDENT YOU MUST NOW SPEAK UP AND TELL US YOUR RELATIONSHIPS WITH THESE CORRUPT AND INDICTED EXGOVERNORS. MOST OF THEM ARE ALSO BEHIDE THE CRIMINAL ELEMENTS IN THE NIGER DELTA, SLAUGHTERING OUR MILITARY PERSONS IN COLD BLOOD. MR. PRESIDENT YOU SHOULD REMEMBER THAT, YOU SENT THESE MILITARY PERSONS TO THE NIGER DELTA TO MENTAIN LAW AND ORDER, AS THEIR COMMANDER IN CHIEF. YOU PROMISED TO NAME AND SHAME, THE BACKERS OF THE CRIMINALS IN THE NIGER DELTA, BUT YOU HAVE NOT DONE SO. IS THERE A HIDDEN AGENDA? WE MUST LOATH ANY BACKER OF THESE CRIMINALS AND ANY GOVERNMENT, THAT KNOWS THE BACKERS OF THESE CRIMINALS AND REFUSES TO NAME AND SHAME THEM, SHOULD FAIL AND DESERVES TO FAIL. NOW THEY HAVE SOLD THE IDEA OF AMNESTY TO YOU THROUGH THEIR AGENT THE AGF MICHAEL AONDOAKAA, BECAUSE HIS FRINDS AND BACKERS WILL BE THE MAIN BENEFICIARIES OF THIS SO CALLED AMNESTY. MR. PRESIDENT YAR’ADUA I HOPE YOU KNOW WHJAT YOU ARE DOING. THESE CORRUPT AND INDICTED EX GOVERNORS AND THEIR FRIENDS ARE THE WORST HUMAN BEINGS NIGERIA HAS EVER HAD. YOU SHOULD AVIOD THEM LIKE A VERY SERIOUS PLAGUE OR THEY WILL DRAG YOU DOWN WITH THEM. MR. PRESIDENT THESE CORRUPT AND INDICTED EX GOVERNORS ARE ALREADY A DISGRACE TO THEMSELVES, THEIR FAMILIES AND THEIR RACE. MR. PRESIDENT YOU HAVE A GOOD FAMILY NAME TO PROTECT AND YOU HAVE A GOOD RECORD AS GOVERNOR OF KASTINA STATE TO PROTECT. MR. PRESIDENT PLEASE THINK OF THE VERY GOOD AN IMPECABLE LEGACY YOUR FATHER AND YOUR ELDER BROTHER LEFT. THESE CORRUPT AND INDICTED EX GOVERNORS ARE CANCAR WORMS OF INIQUITY AND THEY MUST NEVER BE APPROACHED WITH ONE THOUSAND MILES LENGHT OF POLE. THEY ARE EVIL, THEY ARE SATAN. THEY ARE VERY, VERY, BAD PEOPLE
Patrick Agbobu
7 July 2009 00:18BELOW IS WHAT THE BBC IS REPORTING. I HOPE PRESIDENT YAR’DUA AND THE GROUP OF SELFISH ADVICERS KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING. SOME OF THE CORRUPT AND IDICTED EX GOVERNORS HE CALLS HIS FRIENDS ARE BEHIND THESE CRIMINAL ELEMENTS. THESE CORRUPT AND INDICTED EX GOVERNORS RECRUITED, TRIANED, ARMED AND ENCOURAGE THESE CRIMINALS. WHY CAN’T PRESIDENT YAR’ADUA GET IT. HE NEEDS TO STEP BACK, RETHINK AND RESTRATAGISE, HIS POLICY AND APPROACH TO THE NIGER DELTA. THE DAY THE RUSSIAN MAFIA IS INVOLVED IN THE NIGER DELTA, THEN IT IS ‘CAPUT’ FINISH FOR THE NIGER DELTA AND NIGERIA. PRESIDENT YAR’ADUA YOU MUST MOVE VERY VERY FAST OR THERE IS BIG AND SERIOUS TROUBLE I SEE!!
YOU MUST LISTEN TO AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE NIGER DELTA IS A VERY SERIOUS CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY. DO NOT ALLOW INTERNATIONAL BODIES TO GO AFTER OUR LEADERS AND PROSECUTE THEM FOR CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY. REMEMBER DAFOR AND TAYLOR. IF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY DECIDE TO PRESS AND PROSECUTE FOR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, THERE IS NO WHERE TO HIDE. YOU MUST ACT NOW.
REPORT BY BBC
Militants in Nigeria are holding six members of the crew of an oil tanker, including its Russian captain.
A statement from the managers of the ship, the Sichem Peace, said armed men boarded the vessel near Escravos and forced the men to come ashore.
The ship was released and the remaining 13 crew moved it further offshore.
A statement from the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (Mend) said it was holding the men - three Russians, two Filipinos and an Indian.
Root issues
It said it had kidnapped the crew because they had disregarded its earlier warning to keep away from the Niger Delta.
“Their arrest is meant to serve as a warning to others that there are root issues that have to be resolved with the Nigerian government before normalcy can resume,” the group said.
This is the latest in a series of violent incidents in the Niger Delta, which has sharply cut Nigeria’s oil production.
The Sichem Peace, which was seized about 20 nautical miles (37 km) from Escravos, was built in 2005 and sails under the flag of Singapore.
Its managers, EMS Ship Management, said it was “working with the relevant authorities and professional advisors, and doing everything possible to secure the timely and safe release of the crew members.”
It added that the safety of the crew was its “absolute priority”.
The ship, it said, was now 100 miles offshore, and under the control of the remaining crew.
Escravos is one of Nigeria’s main oil complexes, including a gas-to-liquids project and export terminal.
Amnesty offer
Earlier, Mend said it had blown up a major oil pipeline belonging to US firm Chevron, and an oil well head operated by Royal Dutch Shell.
The statement has not been verified and there has been no response from Chevron.
Last month Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua offered a 60-day amnesty to the militants of the Niger Delta, if they gave up their struggle.
But Mend says it will not disarm until the government releases one of its leaders, Henry Okah.
Mend says it wants the people of the Niger Delta to derive greater benefits from the region’s oil.
But many criminal gangs have taken advantage of the lawlessness in the area.
THEY ARE PREPARING THEMSELVES TO DO ANOTHER HALLIBURTON TRIP AND WASTE AS USUAL PUBLIC FUNDS. THEY WANT GHANA MUST GO BAGS TO EXCHANGE HANDS. I AM NOT HOLDING BRIEF FOR TOTAL OR ANY OIL COMPANY AS THEY ARE EQUALLY AS GUILTY. HOW CAN THEY BE ALLOWED TO REGULATE AND SUPERVICE THEMSELVES. THEY ARE ALLOWED BY THE NNPC AND THE GOVERNMENT TO MARK THEIR PAPERS. WHAT DO YOU EXPECT.
45 MILLION NAIRA OVERSEAS TRIP FOR WHAT? THIS IS A SCAM THAT IS HAPPENNING UNDER OUR NOSE. THIS AGF MICHAEL AONDOAKAA IS THE WORST THING THAT HAPPENED TO THIS ADMINISTRATION. I DO NOT SEE THE REASON, WHY THE PRESIDENT IS STILL KEEPING HIM IN HIS CABINET. IT THERE ANYTHING THE PRESIDENT KNOWS, WHICH THE PRESIDENT IS NOT SHARING WITH US? THIS TRIP IS A DELIBERATE WASTE OF PUBLIC FUNDS. WE ALL KNOW WHO THE CULPRITS ARE. THEY ARE IN THE CORRIDOR OF POWER IN THIS ADMINISTRATION AND IN PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION. THEY ARE IN THE PRESENT NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AND PAST ONES. THEIR NAMES ARE IN PUBLIC DOCUMENTS, DISPLAYED BY THE COURTS IN THE USA AND SWIZERLAND. THIS AGF IS PATRONISING NIGERIANS AND HE IS GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER. THIS AGF HAS BEEN DOGGED, IN PROTECTING HIS FRIENDS AND BACKERS, THE CORRUPT AND INDICTED EXGOVERNORS. THE IBORI AND ASSOCIATES, MONEY LAUNDARY AND FRAUD CASE WITH THE LONDON METROPOLITAN POLICE, IS ONE OF THEM. THE AGF PLACED A LOT OF ABSTACLES, ON THE WAY OF THE METROPOLITAN POLICE, SO THAT THEY CAN NOT GET IBORI AND ASSOCIATES. NOW HE IS SEEKING COOPERATION WITH THE SAME INTERNATIONAL POLICE. SHAME ON YOU AGF MICHAEL AONDOAKAA. THESE SAME CORRUPT AND INDICTED EXGOVERNORS RECCOMENDED THE AGF FOR THE POST. IT WAS REGARDED AS ONE OF THE PAY BACKS, FROM THE PRESIDENT, AS THESE CORRUPT AND INDICTED EXGOVERNORS CLAIMED THAT THEY BANK ROLED THE PRESIDENT’S ELECTION. THERE IS A POPULAR SAYING, WHICH SAYS THAT, SHOW ME YOUR FRIENDS AND I WILL TELL YOU WHAT YOU ARE. MR PRESIDENT IF THESE CORRUPT AND INDICTED EXGOVERNORS ARE YOUR FRIENDS, THEN IT MEANS A LOT. MR. PRESIDENT HAS NOT COME OENLY TO DENY THE CLAIMS OF THESE CORRUPT AND INDICTED EXGOVERNORS. MR. PRESIDENT SILIENCE IN LAW MEANS ACCEPTANCE. MR. PRESIDENT YOU MUST NOW SPEAK UP AND TELL US YOUR RELATIONSHIPS WITH THESE CORRUPT AND INDICTED EXGOVERNORS. MOST OF THEM ARE ALSO BEHIDE THE CRIMINAL ELEMENTS IN THE NIGER DELTA, SLAUGHTERING OUR MILITARY PERSONS IN COLD BLOOD. MR. PRESIDENT YOU SHOULD REMEMBER THAT, YOU SENT THESE MILITARY PERSONS TO THE NIGER DELTA TO MENTAIN LAW AND ORDER, AS THEIR COMMANDER IN CHIEF. YOU PROMISED TO NAME AND SHAME, THE BACKERS OF THE CRIMINALS IN THE NIGER DELTA, BUT YOU HAVE NOT DONE SO. IS THERE A HIDDEN AGENDA? WE MUST LOATH ANY BACKER OF THESE CRIMINALS AND ANY GOVERNMENT, THAT KNOWS THE BACKERS OF THESE CRIMINALS AND REFUSES TO NAME AND SHAME THEM, SHOULD FAIL AND DESERVES TO FAIL. NOW THEY HAVE SOLD THE IDEA OF AMNESTY TO YOU THROUGH THEIR AGENT THE AGF MICHAEL AONDOAKAA, BECAUSE HIS FRINDS AND BACKERS WILL BE THE MAIN BENEFICIARIES OF THIS SO CALLED AMNESTY. MR. PRESIDENT YAR’ADUA I HOPE YOU KNOW WHJAT YOU ARE DOING. THESE CORRUPT AND INDICTED EX GOVERNORS AND THEIR FRIENDS ARE THE WORST HUMAN BEINGS NIGERIA HAS EVER HAD. YOU SHOULD AVIOD THEM LIKE A VERY SERIOUS PLAGUE OR THEY WILL DRAG YOU DOWN WITH THEM. MR. PRESIDENT THESE CORRUPT AND INDICTED EX GOVERNORS ARE ALREADY A DISGRACE TO THEMSELVES, THEIR FAMILIES AND THEIR RACE. MR. PRESIDENT YOU HAVE A GOOD FAMILY NAME TO PROTECT AND YOU HAVE A GOOD RECORD AS GOVERNOR OF KASTINA STATE TO PROTECT. MR. PRESIDENT PLEASE THINK OF THE VERY GOOD AN IMPECABLE LEGACY YOUR FATHER AND YOUR ELDER BROTHER LEFT. THESE CORRUPT AND INDICTED EX GOVERNORS ARE CANCAR WORMS OF INIQUITY AND THEY MUST NEVER BE APPROACHED WITH ONE THOUSAND MILES LENGHT OF POLE. THEY ARE EVIL, THEY ARE SATAN. THEY ARE VERY, VERY, BAD PEOPLE
Patrick Agbobu says:
July 6, 2009 at 11:08 pmTHE REPORT OF AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL ON NIGER DELTA, IS THE TURTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH. ANY PERSON WHO FAULTS THIS IMPECCABLE REPORT IS NOT ONLY ECCONOMICAL WITH THE TRUTH BUT IS IN ANOTHER PLANET AND IN CLOUD-CUCKOO-LAND. THE NIGERIAN AUTHORITY KNOWS THAT AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL IS AN IMPARTIAL BODY AND THEY PERFORM THEIR DUTY WITHOUT BLEMISH. IF IT WAS POSSILE FOR NIGERIA TO INFLUENCE THEM WITH THE USAUL GHANA MUST GO BAG, TYEY COULD HAVE DONE SO. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL IS A HIGHLY RESPECTED INTERNATIONAL IMPARTIAL ORGANIZATION. NIGERIA AND THE OIL COMPANIES MUST BE ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES. NIGERIA SHOULD INTRODUCE A WINDFAL TAX ON THESE OIL COMPANIES TO CLAW BACK THE HUGE PROFITS THEY HAVE MADE OVER THE PERIOD. NIGERIA MUST ASK THE OIL COMPANIES TO CLEAN THE MESS THEY CREATED AND PENALISE THEM PUNITIVELY FOR THE MESS. THE MONEY FROM THE WINDFALL TAX, EXCESS CRUDE AND 30% OF OUR EXTERNAL RESERVE SHOULD BE USED IMMEDIATELY FOR THE DEVELOPEMENT OF NIGER DELTA
MR. PRESIDENT YOU ARE NOT LISTENING. YOU SHOULD USE NIGER DELTA MONEY TO DEVELOPE THE NIGER DELTA IMMEDIATELY. ABUJA AND ENVIRONS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPED WITH THE MONEY FROM THE NIGER DELTA. THE SAME INTEREST AND SPEED THAT WAS USED TO DEVELOPE ABUJA SHOULD BE USED TO DEVELOPE THE NIGER DELTA. THIS WILL BE A WIN WIN FOR NIGERIA. THE CRISES WILL STOP, INVESTMENTS WILL RUSH IN, THE YOUTHS WILL BE GAINFULLY EMPLOYED, NIGERIA WILL MAXIMISE HER CRUDE OIL AND GAS PRODUCTIONS,TOURISM WILL FLORISH, NIGERIAN INTELLECTUALS AND BUSINESS PEOPLE ABROAD WILL COME BACK TO NIGERIA AND CREATE A LOT OF JOBS. AS LITTLE AS 100,000.00 (ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND) POUNDS COULD ESTABLISH A SMALL COTTAGE INDUSTRY OF A SMALL FARM AND ABOUT SIX WELL PAID JOBS CAN BE CREATED. BY SIMPLE CALCULATION, ABOUT ONE MILLION NIGERIANS ABROAD CAN RAISE THIS TYPE OF MONEY. THAT IS ABOUT SIX MILLION NEW JOBS. MR. PRESIDENT LISTEN! LISTEN!! LISTEN!!! LISTEN!!!. TIME IS NOT ON OUR SIDE AND YOUR SIDE MAKE HASTE NOW!!!!!
Patrick Agbobu
10 July 2009 11:46So what? Henry is a comon criminal, he is not a freedom fighter. He is a thug, a kidnapper, an oil bunkerer and agent to the corrupt and indicted governors and persons. This so called amnesty of a thing a just unnuccesary diversion and a boloney. The real issue has to be addressed and has not been addressed. It is empirical and as stated by, John Wilkes over 350 years ago and I quote ‘Injustice is a wrong and a wrong must be righted’ and if one human being or a group human beings, through injustice and abuse of naked power, tries to tyrannise it over another or a group of people, it is a power usurped for The Almighty God and resistance is a prime duty. These statements are true then and they are very true now. What is happening in the Niger Delta is criminal and dishonest and ALL Presidents military or civilians, ALL Governors Military or civilian, with the exception of Diete Spiffe and most so called leaders of the Niger Delta are parties to this crime and dishonesty. Abuja was developed in a jiffy, with the money made from the crude oil of the Niger Delta. Why can’t The Niger Delta be developed in a jiffy, with the money made from the cude oil of the Niger Delta. It is matthematical aziom, QED, QEF, a political reality, makes ecconomic sense, it is religiously Godly, it is fair, just and equitable that if The Niger Delta is massively ecconomically developed, the people of the Niger Delta are massively ecconomically empowered with the provision of well paid jobs to the able bodied youths, youth restiveness and mayhem will be reduced by 98%. The Federal Government has 55 billion dollars in their external reserve, The federal government has, a lot of billions of dollars stached away in their crude oil accounts in secert bank accounts. They should use this money to massively develope the Niger Delta immediately. The state governments should also be involved in these martial plan, to massively develope the Niger Delta. All the ex governors who were, almost impecunious before the were selected as governors, now have billions of dollars in foriegn accounts, which they looted, got from ransome money and made through illegal oil bunkerring and stealing with their collaborators, should be made or asked to bring back this money to help in the developement of the Niger Delta. The federal Government know where all these monies are hidden abroad. If they say they do not know, then we know those that can help them locate this stolen money. After the moneis have been returned, then the government can talk of amnesty. The truth is that at the end of the day these corrupt ex governors will loss all the money, just think of the Shar of Iran, Marcos of the Philiphines, the Zars of Russia, Mobutu, Hailselesi, the Italian and American mafia, just to mention a few, they all lost their money they kept in foriegn and secret accounts. Mr. President what is good for Abuja is equally good for the Niger Delta. You should listen very well to Amnesty International and their report on Niger Delta. You shouls stop masking the problem by talking of Amnesty to criminals, by extension the corrupt and indicted ex governors from the Niger Delta. These are the people who claimed and you have not denied it up till now, that they bank roled your election and that, they will bank role your reelection of 2011. You can grant amnesty to as many Henrys, Iboris, Odillis, Sekibos, etc and their friends and collaborators, if you do not address the underlining problems in the Niger Delta, all your so called amnesty will come to nothing ZERO and will only be seen as a political shenanigan. You have been pushed into a very tight conner by the AGF to talk of Amnesty, that will only benefit his friends and backers, the corrupt and indicted ex governors, their collaborators and the criminals. I gathered that the list recovered, in camp 5 by the security people, contain their names. Is this the reason why you are reluctant to publish the lists? Any leader who plays hide and seek and who it not up front with the truth and who is ecconomical with the actualite in the Niger Delta will never see peace.MR PRESIDENT POSITIVE AND MASSIVE DEVELOPE MENT OF THE NIGER DELTA AND POSSITIVE AND MASSIVE ECCONOMIC EMPOWERMENT OF THE PEOPLE OF THE NIGER DELTA IS THE ONLY SOLUTION.
Patrick Agbobu
11 July 2009 16:02Amnesty as it is packaged by the AGF, acting for the corrupt and indicted governors, will FAIL and deserves to fail. What this has done is to reward criminals, fronting for the corrupt and indicted governors and their collaborators. This amnesty has by extention given amnesty to these indicted and corrupt governors and their collaborators and has rewarded them for their crime against nigerians and humanity. These same indicted and corrupt governors and their collaborators names, featured promininently, in the lists of backers of the criminals recorvered in camp 5, bt the security forces. The amnesty is not only bad and disgraceful, but was dishonestly negotiated and the corrupt and indicted and currupt governors are at the very centre of it. These bad people, who should hang their heads in permanent shame, are trying to get away with murder. If this shinanigan of an amnesty, is allowed to be put in place, then the President does not deserve the support of Nigerians and especially the military. The later he sent to the Niger Delta, as their Commander In Chief and they were slaughtered in cold blood by the criminals.
The President should realise that, the real agitators in the Niger Delta are not talking of amnesty. All they want and deserve is that, the people of the Niger Delta should be treated with fairness justice and the fear of God. The President should know that, this sham of an amnesty is a sign of great weakness and it is not worth the paper on which it is written. Mr. President if you know, you are sincere with the people of the Niger Delta, you should start without delay and as a down payment to the people of the Niger Delta, develope the Niger Delta, with the same speed and alacrity that was used in developing Abuja. Abuja was geveloped in a jiffy, do the same with the Niger Delta. You have just awarded contracts for 10 lane road for Abuja International airport worth over 300 billion naira, yet you find it immposible to link all the state capitals in the Niger Delta with the rest of the country. Mr. President this is double standards and the people of the Niger Delta will not be fooled. Mr. President read and listen to the report of amnesty International on the Niger Delta. Amnesty International is a very respectable body all over the world and they should know better. Mr. President use the part of money, Nigeria is making in the Niger Delta to immediately develope the Niger Delta and ecconomically empower the people of the Niger Deita now. Mr. President stop using the money that was realised from the Niger Delta, to develope Abuja and other places and ecconomically empowering people, from other parts of nigeria, at the expence of the Niger Delta and her people. Mr. President it is time, you should stop patronising the people of the Niger Delta, like your predicessors. Mr. President bribing a few shameless, so called leaders of the Niger Delta is not the solution. This tactics will fail woefully as they have failed in the past. If it is this chinanigan of an amnesty, that the real agitators of the Niger Delta want, Adaka Boro, Ken Saro Wiwa and others could not have sacrificed their lives, fighting for justice and fairness for the people of the Niger Delta. The Bible and The Coran say DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WISH THEY DO UNTO YOU. If you obey this law and rule you will please the people of the Niger Delta and The Almighty God. Mr. President all the so called billioners in Nigeria today, made their money from the cude oil and associate industries linked to crude oil, and these products were got from The Niger Delta, Mr. President show me one of these billioners, who is from the Niger Delta. Mr. Ptrsident is this not shameful and disgraceful? Mr. President Nigeria has 63 billion dollars in foriegn reserves and all are made from curde oil, from The Niger Delta, yet the Niger Delta is wallowing in abject and abysmal porverty. Mr. President is this just and fair? Mr. President why do you and your predicessors and all governments of all shades, treat the people of the Niger Delta so shabilly? Are the people of the neger delta crused because, we produce the crude oil and gas, which the whole of Nigeria depens on? MR. PRESIDENT TELL ME! MR. PRESIDENT TELL THE PEOPLE OF THE NIGER DELTA!! MR. PRESIDENT TELL NIGERIANS!!! MR. PRESIDENT TELL THE WORLD!!!!