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THE UNSPEAKABLE HAS BECOME THE NORN - It is the doing of "Ama Ama Amasi Amasi", All Praise and Glory to Chi Ukwu Okike, The Mighty Yah!
The Beat Goes on – Nigeria is dead, the “British Birthed Abomination” that Luguard called “****** Area” has finally dead! Long Live the True African Countries Born out of that Abomination. Long Live the Islamic Republic of Arewa! Long Live the Republic of Oduduwa! Long Live the Republic of Biafara! Long Live all other true African Republics born out of the death of that Abomination.
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Daily Independent Online
PRONACO: Yoruba, Ijaw groups canvass secession By Donald Ojogo, Senior Correspondent
The Peoples Sovereign national conference, fondly called PRONACO, entered day two on Tuesday, with two of the affiliate bodies insisting that the forced political union called Nigeria was no longer necessary".
They insisted that every ethnic nationality should be allowed to go its own way and fend for themselves.
This development came as Niger Delta militants , at the same venue said, the kidnap in the restive Niger Delta was a defence mechanism.
The first plenary session, which commenced yesterday after Monday's opening ceremony was presided over by former Finance Minister Dr. Kalu Idika Kalu.
Elder statesman Pa Anthony Enahoro presided on Monday.
But soon after the opening remarks by Kalu, and in the midst of the presentation of position papers by leaders of delegations to the conference, spokesman of the Coalition of Odua Self -Determination groups (COSEG), Dayo Ogunlana, raised a point of observation that, the groups position on Monday, did not reflect on the committees proposed by the conference.
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.At yesterdays session, we in coseg made our position known without any fear that, we are no longer interested in the forced marriage called Nigeria ,we want to go our own way, and that nobody should force Nigeria on us. But to our surprise, we cannot find the reflection of that position in the committees proposed here". "We stand by that position, we are representing it here and again, and it should be reflected in the committees as an issue which deserves a very critical look because we are tired by Nigeria", Ogunlana fumed.
In the same vein, the Ijaw ethnic nationality, represented by Asari Dokubo-led Niger-Delta Peoples Volunteer Force (NDPVF) re-echoed Ogunlana's position.
NDPVF), whose position was presented by the Secretary-General of the group, Comrade Odum Onisoya James, hinged its call for secession on the grounds of the "artificial union forced on Nigerians by Colonial imperialists.
"There is no need pretext that today's Nigeria is faulty, built and packaged on a deceitful premise enunciated by the British imperial masters. Left for us alone as Ijaws in the Niger Delta we will go our own way, let others also stay on their own and manage their resources".
"This is what we have been demanding over the years because we cannot as a people, habour the nation's resources, yet we are the worst in terms of development in this country", Odum stressed.
Meanwhile, the Federated Niger Delta Communities (FNDIC) gave a hard defence of the hostage taking phenomenon in the restive region.
President of the group, Oboko Bello, who spoke on the issue at the conference venue linked the development to what he called the need to survive as a people.
It is a last resort and the need to defend the remaining part of our land that has been devastated by the exploitation of oil without any desire on the part of the oil companies to develop the area, he said.
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quote:Traditional rulers and leaders from the Niger Delta, arriving at the State House, Abuja, for a stakeholders meeting… yesterday. PHOTO:PHILIP OJISUA
I commend highly the courage of these Niger Deltans who has remained steadfast in demanding for their inalienable rights in the face of a brutal – a word formed from Brutus, regime. If the Igbo group would show similar courage we may get somewhere, but not until emman iwuanyanwu, arthur nzeribe, chimaroke nnamani, orji kamalu etc are severely dealt with! The accompanying photo to the story was purposely omitted to avoid confusion that would arise from a different picture taking its place after today. To see the picture, you have to visit Guardian online today.
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“Contacted yesterday, the president of the Ijaw National Congress (INC), Prof. Kimse Okoko, said he was not aware of the invitation if indeed he was invited. He, however, said if the invitation was to soften the Ijaw stance, it would be a misadventure, as Chief Clark alone could not alter the position of the Ijaw people.”
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The Ijaw are to be congratulated for their grip of COLLECTIVE LEADERSHIP, unlike the Igbo who are ready to anoint every 419’er who steps on the scene god over Igbo. How else does one explain: ‘Zik of Africa’, who refused to see the writing on the wall, that a union with the Feudal North was unworkable, a union that has set Igbo back thousands of years and cost millions of innocent lives; Ojukwu, a bungler, who snatched defeat out of the mouth of total victory, a costly defeat that Igbo continue to pay for even today, and turned Igbo to a beggar nation, but for the Grace of Yah, had set things in motion to convert Igbo to a Feudal nation with him and his family as the ruling class; Uwazurike, a bad imitation of Ojukwu, who thinks he can ride roughshod over Ndi Igbo, crowned himself President for life of his biafra and even moved the capital of his biafra To his village, a feat that even his master, Ojukwu could not achieve. Ndi Igbo, above is your shameful track record.
Why is it that a nation that gave the world, CIVILIZATION, DEMOCRACY, RULE OF LAW and ONE GOD, has lost all the ability to understand the rudiments of the best form of government, a form of government that will never fail, a form of government that is guaranteed to succeed - Collective Leadership, based on the ‘servant leadership model’.
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Militants reject Obasanjo's dev plan for N-Delta By Emma Amaize & Ofure Ehidiamen Posted to the Web: Thursday, April 20, 2006
* Obasanjo invites Ijaw leader, Clark to Abuja
WARRI— THE Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) rejected, yesterday, President Olusegun Obasanjo’s latest initiative on the development of the region. However, in a surprise move, President Obasanjo, yesterday, invited Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark, to Abuja on matters believed not to be unconnected with the strong position of the Ijaw.
The president, Tuesday, unveiled a multi-billion naira initiative to create jobs and build infrastructures in the region in a bid to sterm violence.
But reacting yesterday, MEND dismissed the plan and threatened a rapid return to violence. “We wish to restate our warnings to oil companies still operating in the Niger Delta, and more especially workers for such companies, to leave while they can,” the group said in an e-mail statement.
“Our halt in attacks was more of a tactical suspension which has come to its end. At a time of our choosing we will resume attacks with greater devastation and no compassion on those who choose to disregard our warnings,” it said. On Tuesday, Obasanjo met politicians, business leaders and traditional rulers from the region and vowed to create almost 20,000 government jobs, drill hundreds of wells and build a 1.75-billion-dollar highway.
The militants, in a typically toughly-worded statement, predicted that the promised development projects would serve only to enrich the elite and repeated their demand for local control of all oil revenues.
“We do not need any further mismanagement of the fast diminishing resources of our land by the award of bogus contracts intended to channel the wealth of the Niger Delta back to the hands of those who have looted ... all these years,” it further said.
MEND’s warning will increase pressure on international oil prices which have hit record highs, in excess of $70 per barrel, in recent days amid fears of US action against Iran and further disruption to Nigerian exports.
Obasanjo invites Clark
A source told Vanguard that a chartered plane was dispatched to bring Chief Clark to Abuja but the information was very sketchy as all efforts to contact the Ijaw leader on his cell phone proved abortive. A top security source in Delta State confirmed to Vanguard, last night, that Chief Clark was invited by President Obasanjo. Contacted yesterday, the president of the Ijaw National Congress (INC), Prof. Kimse Okoko, said he was not aware of the invitation if indeed he was invited. He, however, said if the invitation was to soften the Ijaw stance, it would be a misadventure, as Chief Clark alone could not alter the position of the Ijaw people.
However, a source close to the Ijaw leader said: “President Obasanjo sent for our leader today (yesterday) and they brought a chartered flight to take him to Abuja. We are not afraid that he will tell him the truth,” he said. Chief Clark has maintained that the Council of Socio-Economic Development of the Coastal States of Niger-Delta put in place by President Obasanjo would not work as long as the Ijaw people were not consulted.
NLC welcomes new initiatives
The Federal Government’s new initiative on the Niger Delta question was yesterday welcomed by the president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Mr Adams Oshiomhole. Mr Oshiomhole who spoke with newsmen in Benin shortly after attending the launch of a Non-Governmental Organisation, “Osazee Omonuwa Life Support Foundation,” aimed at saving the lives of armed robbery victims said: “You need a compendium of measures, political and economic solutions but let us hope that what was inaugurated yesterday constitutes a sustainable foundation to address the problems on a sustainable basis.”The NCL president who was reacting to Tuesday’s inauguration of a 50-man Council on Social andEconomic Development of Coastal States (Niger Delta) under the headship of President Obasanjo, said the new initiative as enunciated by the president was a very bold step and urged the government to go beyond the rituals of committee study.”What we already know (about the Niger Delta) is that the people were abandoned and that the region accounts for 80 per cent of our national income, and that no reason can justify the extent of their deprivation and marginalisation,” he said.
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LAGOS (Reuters) - A U.S. oil executive employed by Baker Hughes was killed in Nigeria's southeastern oil city of Port Harcourt on Wednesday, authorities said.
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The man was shot through the chest in his car on the way to work by a gunman on a motorcycle in an apparently targeted attack, diplomatic, police and oil company sources said
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Honest people anywhere know that what is going on in the Niger-Delta region is injustice and a threat to peace, whatever way you look at it. When you have a government that does not recognize the validity of a people who gave a nation its economic power from its natural resources while the dominant and military means uses its might at its disposal to make itself relevant in global politics, the result ultimately would be chaos. The time bomb is waiting to explode and Nigeria is no exception.
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Foreign oil workers kidnapped in Nigeria Foreign oil workers kidnapped in Nigeria By Austin Ekeinde Thu May 11, 10:55 AM ET
PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (Reuters) - Three foreign oil workers, including one Italian, were kidnapped from a car under armed escort in Nigeria's oil capital Port Harcourt on Thursday, a day after a U.S. oil executive was shot dead in the same city. ADVERTISEMENT
Police and industry sources said the abduction of the employees of Italian oil contractor Saipem was sparked by a dispute between the company and a community where it is working and that efforts were under way to secure their release.
"The matter is being worked on and is moving toward positive results," Rivers State Police Commissioner Samuel Agbetuyi told Reuters by telephone, adding that one suspected kidnapper had been arrested.
The militant Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), which has waged a campaign of attacks against the oil industry in the world's eighth largest exporter, said it was not involved in the kidnapping.
Industry sources said the three men were traveling in two SUVs with a police escort when they were stopped by gunmen, who disarmed their security.
They were taken from the cars to a nearby boat on one of the multitude of mangrove-lined creeks that runs through the vast wetlands region.
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On Wednesday a gunman on a motorcycle shot dead a U.S. citizen working for Texan oil services company Baker Hughes in an apparently planned assassination. Diplomatic and oil industry sources said the killing was probably an isolated incident related to a work dispute.
Kidnapping is a fairly common method used by impoverished villages in the lawless delta, suffering neglect from their own government, to extract benefits or cash from oil companies.
Port Harcourt is the largest city in the Niger Delta, which pumps all of Nigeria's oil, and several multinationals have major offices there, including Royal Dutch Shell and Agip.
The kidnapping and killing add to a rising trend of violent crime and communal unrest in the vast wetlands region, which coincides with heightened political instability in Nigeria ahead of elections next year.
Militancy is fueled by resentment among many delta inhabitants, who feel cheated out of the riches being pumped from their tribal lands.
Neglect and rampant corruption have eroded trust in government, while communal rivalries and abuses by the military have fueled the rise of well-armed community militias.
They have taken advantage of the absence of law and order to engage in large-scale theft of crude oil, extortion, blackmail and kidnapping against oil companies, which rely on ill-equipped and poorly trained police and military to protect them.
MEND's emergence in December has raised the stakes in the delta, because it introduced a more professional military style of attack, more deadly firepower and a more focused political dimension to the militancy.
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Five foreign oil workers of Daewoo Nigeria Limited who were taken hostage by militants in the troubled Niger Delta Wednesday morning were yesterday released to top Rivers State Government officials.
These so-called militants have lost flavor with me. This bunches of rat pack are nothing but hustling guerillas who do not care one iota about the welfare of the people they claim to be fighting in their behalf. What is all this nonsense about taking hostages and letting them go in less than one minute? What statement are they making, that they are very, very, very unserious? In less than few months as many hostages that were abducted were let go before the government even knew what was happening. Now that the whole world has seen them as a bunch of loose area-boys without any serious agenda, how do they hope to achieve their goal of equitable distribution of what’s stolen from them to start with? What a nauseating joke!
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MeBe, Ednut, I beg to differ slightly. The race these people are running is not being run nor won in a day. I believe that while their operations have been far from perfect,but on the broader scope they have been meeting their tactical and strategic goals. Furthermore, they have shown their seriousness and capabilities by the sheer number of their kidnappings, while always ensuring the safe return of the innocent hostages once their short term tactical terms are met. They have built up a solid reputation of returning their hostages unharmed and in good physical and psycholocical condition, which is well appreciated by the international anti-terror agancies and shows a level of maturity, seriousness and objective thinking. When I say the insurgents are meeting their present tactical and strategic objectives, I mean the following; Tactical; Their imidiate tactical aim right now and the reason for most of these kidnapping seems to be basically on 2 fronts: 1. The publicity , awareness and propaganda value, 2. an avenue of raising finances. They are smart enough to realise that kidnapping a set of koreans or americans and setting an unreasonable ultimatum, like if obasanjo does not resign in 24 hrs or if shell does not quit niger delta in 48 hrs etc if not they will kill the hostages bla bla, if they do that they will eventually be forced to kill those poor souls cos americal and shell dont give a damn about them. And then nothing gained. So I like this their tactics, milk them dry but be good to the hostages. after series of navy crackdown on oil bunckering activities, and aquiring of more military hardware such as helicopter gunship from america, and amphibious and navy equipment from china, kidnaping is fast growing to be an alternative source of financing, for further organisation and purchase of the required hardwares to further the operations of the insurgents.
Strategic; The final strategy behind the kidnappings and all other operations of the insurgents seems to be to cause instability of the goverment and especially of the operations of the companies like shell etc. The steady and on holding spree of kidnapping of expatriate workers is certainly being felt in that industrial sector. So with kidnaping and releasing, they are still again in line with their strategy which is to destabilise oil and other exploiting industries.
Personally, i respect their approach a lot, the way they are able to make their point as rebels and insurgents in a more or less civilised way, considering the circumstances, with respect for human life and dignity. Had they used any other approach, they would be little diffrent from osama bin laden and his bunch of fundamental lunatics.
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Will the emergence, in 2007, of a president from the South-south bring an end to MEND's activities?
Hey Maazi Ochiwar, your perspective on MEND is interesting. Right now, I am undecided on this issue, albeit I support the genuine reasons for their militancy. There are some people in these areas though who feel that MEND's insurgents or methods are inimical to their ultimate goals. Some feel that MEND is just working for the benefit of their own group hence the seeming rise of other militants under other banners. I guess we will just have to wait some more.
Please, if you have more to share on this, feel free. Thanx.
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My take is that the MEND brouhaha would have had real comical value but for the fact that innocent people have been murdered in cold blood. a fly that lacks counsel normally end up beneath the earth with the corpse.
When a proper government is in place the jungle men will be brought to justice, then they will remember big brother Igbo. The irresponsible Yoroba moron Obasanjo together with messrs Odili and Alams unwittingly armed the hoodlums for the 419 election. It is laughable for them to pretend that they are in a struggle for emancipation. The emanicipation they little eastern hamlets need is from self hate and self destruction.
Saro Wiwa and his Ogoni clansmen nearly decimated the Andoni clan because the latter is "Ibo". When Abacha hanged him and some others there was peace and quiet and not a few people believed justice had been done. The only sacred cow during Abacha's regime was Abacha himself. Ogoni land creek and water took less than 12 hours to secure.
BiafraNigeriia's attempt to create something out of the East has turned out to be a joke taken too far. I agree with Sunny Okogwu, there is nothing like South South. We must encourage the repentant ones to come back to the fold while the reprobate Izon warriors should be thrown to the North ala Saro Wiwa and Adaka Boro!
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quote:We must encourage the repentant ones to come back to the fold while the reprobate Izon warriors should be thrown to the North ala Saro Wiwa and Adaka Boro!
Well Done!! OU There is nothing more to say...
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quote:Nigeria militants seize German hostage in oil-rich southeast
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria, Aug. 3 — Militants disguised as soldiers took a German oil industry worker hostage Thursday in Nigeria's oil-rich delta region, spiriting him away on a boat, police said. Ten attackers in camouflage uniforms abducted the man after stopping his jeep as he traveled to work in the oil-producing hub of Port Harcourt, police spokeswoman Ireju Barasua said. The man works for construction company Bilfinger Berger Gas and Oil Services Ltd., an affiliate of German construction giant Julius Berger, Barasua said. Company officials could not be reached for comment. ''We are combing the place to locate the victim,'' Barasua said, adding that the Nigerian navy and armed forces were searching for witnesses. She said the hostage would be difficult to find in the delta, a Scotland-sized labyrinth of creeks and mangrove swamps dotted with small villages. Attacks on oil pipelines and kidnappings in the country's southern Niger Delta have cut oil production by more than 20 percent this year. Nigeria, Africa's biggest oil producer, normally produces about 2.5 million barrels per day. More than 30 foreign oil workers have been seized this year, three from Port Harcourt. Militants generally kidnap workers to bargain for a greater share of the country's oil wealth. The militants argue that residents have remained deeply impoverished while government officials and oil companies grow rich. Most of the kidnappings have ended peacefully, though an American oil worker was shot and killed in Port Harcourt in April. In a report Thursday, the International Crisis Group urged Nigeria's government to try to defuse the militancy in the region by more than doubling the amount of oil revenue provided to its 36 states. The Brussels, Belgium-based think tank also said the government should open ''a credible, sustained dialogue'' with community leaders, militants and activists and work to implement greater transparency on government budgets, skills training and a disarmament program.
Associated Press writer Katharine Houreld contributed to this report from Lagos, Nigeria.
Will the emergence in 2007, of a president from the South-south bring an end to MEND's activities?
I don't think so, and here is why. The conventional wisdom is that OBJ had thought a South-south pick for the presidency or VP, whatever the case may have been should be a strategem to stop the quagmire. Until Dokubo-Asari is unconditionally released, expect more explosions and assassinations in the days ahead.
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