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It is no longer a secret that the Ijaw Nation has an inordinate ambition to dominate and control the Niger-Delta and its resources. I sound this alarm openly because Ijaw people have refused to control their thugs who openly seek to dominate and subjugate the great Efik/Ibibio people who far outnumber the Ijaw nation.
Whether the acts are committed by Dokubo Asari or by MEND, those who have been watchful would have noticed that violent acts by Ijaw activists invariably take place outside Ijawland. I bring this in the open after private talks have failed to get Ijaw people to restrict their activities to Ijawland. We will not tolerate minority rule in the Niger-Delta. The Ijaw nation is a super minority in the Niger-Delta.
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Nigeria they hell thee!!!! What do people still expect from a useless country eluded by peace and still tottering without realizing it? HAIL BIAFRA!
___________________ BIAFRA: The land of my ancestors now, yesterday and always. So it will be! Posts: 2483 | From: Ala Igbo | Registered: Apr 2004
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Thank you for calling a spade a spade. It is good to see that the greed of these Ijaw people is not going unnoticed by other minorities.
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We should be commending the Ijaws for having the balls to take it to the Nigerian corrupt regime than castigating them. OBJ is promising Jobs, road, schools, etc to the Niger Delta area only because the Ijaws have not been making live easier for him and the rest of this gang. Abia State and Imo state were removed from the list of States to benefit from these federal development plans but Ondo in far away Yoroba western Nigeria, was included but I don't see any person from this two states making any noise about this very in your face assault from OBJ, not one person instead we have the likes on Nzeribe asking for a probe of A local government Chairman and Uwuanyanwu trying to illegally manipulate the creation of additional state for the Southeast to favor his choice state.
We should commend the Ijaw nation and the rest of the Niger Deltans need to visit the MEND and find out how they can work in conjunction with them to take over their natural recourses from the Nigerian government.
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yes bro Ednut! tell them!... oh right now i wish that i am an IJAW!. they have taking over the guts, shots and the resovle from every other tribes east of the Niger including the presently highly disorganise and saboteur and 419 infested igbos, to lead the struggle to liberate not only the niger Delta but also the whole east.The daring Ijaws have taking the lead in the liberation struggle in the most effective way and the only way that the enemy understand! enobong! pls show some gratitude for blood is ticker than Water.. that your effik/ibibio people are being specially treated and invited to Abuja as niger deltans that need urgent compensation is as a result of the Blood of fearless ijaw sons and daughter killed in the battle front. enobong! i expect you to encourage your people to drop their gentleman..gentleman attitude, get themselves organised and engage the enemy.dont forget that the oil in ibibio/effik land is not limitless... yes it will soon be sucked dry. and when that happens....
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MEND has now confirmed that it is but a political militia being readied to give effect, through intimidation, to the warped political agenda/calculations of the Ijaw man, Edwin Clark. The question still remains: why can't MEND just speak for the Ijaw nation, where they have jurisdiction, instead of the whole Niger Delta region or the entire South-south political zone? Has the Ijaw nation finally become synonymous with Niger Delta region or with South-south political zone?
From Segun James in Yenagoa and Omon-Julius Onabu in Warri, 12.08.2006
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND) rose from a meeting in Warri, Delta State, yesterday warning Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former Military President Ibrahim Babangida, South-south governors, among other Presidential aspirants, to forget about ruling the country. Militants also yesterday attacked Brass Oil Export terminal belonging to Nigerian Agip Oil Company where they kidnapped four foreign oil workers and killed two Nigerian youths. In what appears like a dramatic ideological somersault, MEND, a coalition of the militant groups in the Niger-Delta, at the end of the meeting also resolved to henceforth work for the return of Presidency to the North. MEND, which is about the most dreaded of the Niger-Delta coalition of militant groups, has been hitherto known for its hard-line posture in the agitation for an end to the “criminal neglect” of the region vis-à-vis perceived political injustice, which has resulted in “the zone having not produced a Nigerian political head in its 46 years despite the area being the source of over 90 percent of the country’s wealth.” Paramount among the resolutions is the call on governors from the South-south geo-political zone that are currently campaigning for a ticket to succeed President Olusegun Obasanjo to forget about their ambition till at least 2011. At least 18 presidential aspirants of Northern extraction were also advised to abandon their ambition for 2007 presidency, so as to “pave the way for the emergence of a candidate and president who is nationally acceptable to the rest of Nigeria.” The list of those advised by MEND to forget their presidential aspirations include ex-military leaders, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari and General Ibrahim Babangida, Alhaji Bashir Tofa, Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, Governor Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, Alhaji Babagana Kingibe, Dr. Adamu Mu’azu and Mrs. Sarah Jibril. The MEND meeting yesterday coincided with a gathering in Calabar, Cross River State, of leaders of the South-South Peoples Assembly (SSPA), for the burial of national political and socio-cultural heroine, Chief (Mrs.) Margaret Ekpo and dialogue with about a dozen presidential aspirants from the South-South geo-political zone. A leader of a faction of the SSPA, Chief Edwin Clark, told newsmen in Warri early in the week that the Calabar meeting would afford the group an opportunity to dialogue with the presidential hopefuls on the need to harmonise their campaign in order for one of them to emerge as President in 2007. However, the MEND statement yesterday said it’s over 50 affiliate groups have decided to resist the 2007 presidential bid of the aforementioned politicians form the North because of their “antecedents”, which the coalition said now “haunt them and project them as political liabilities.” The coalition, in the 10-page statement, said the meeting resolved to back the former military administrator, Brig-Gen. Buba Marwa (retired) “with a proviso that the Vice-President should come from the core of the Niger-Delta.” MEND hinged the decision to back Marwa on what it called the ex-MILAD’s track-record of assistance towards the amelioration of the ecological, educational and social problems of the Niger-Delta people when compared with the contributions of the other spirants form the North. “The political arm of the Consultative Assembly of MEND, sequel to entreaties made by Dr M.B. Marwa, has had extensive contacts and dialogue with him, who has accepted in principle the Niger-Delta Manifesto,” observed the statement reportedly circulated to about 40 oragnisations including local and international media. Signatories to the document, which was actually dated December 2, 2006, include: “Gen. Joshua Bob-Manuel; Commander Preye Andabafa; Chief Samson Gbenewei; Chief Oghene-ochuko Ogaga; Commander Tive Utikpe; Lt.-Col. Omawumi Jacobs; Chief Tamuno Briggs and Chief Ndiedem O. Abang. Meanwhile, in a dare-devil raid, Niger Delta militants in the early hours of yesterday attacked the multi-billion dollar Brass Oil Export Terminal and Tank Farm belonging to Italian oil giant, Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC), and disarmed the Naval and Army personnel on guard duties before abducting three Italians, a Japanese oil worker and killing two Nigerian youths. The NAOC facility operation lasted about 15 minutes but nothing was destroyed while oil production was not disrupted. The commandos came in three speedboats which they moored at the terminal jetty before entering the facility to abduct the expatriates. The ease with which the operation took place was said to have confounded security operatives as the facility was well guarded by about 100 naval and army personnel. Following reports that the commandos were within the facility, Brass youths were said to have mobilised to prevent the abduction, but in the ensuing gun battle, two of them (youths) were killed and several others wounded. One of the commandos shot was whisked away by his colleagues. THISDAY gathered that the abductors and their victims were sighted along the Nembe creek heading towards Rivers State. When contacted, the Commander of the Joint Task Force (JTF), Operation Restore Hope, Brig. General Alfred Ilogho, confirmed the attack but said he was yet to be briefed on the incident. Also contacted, the State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Hafiz Ringim, confirmed the story but he however could not confirm the number of casualties.
___________________ When I heard that those vandals, the nigerian troops, had advanced to Aba. That great Biafran city. It touched my heart; not to forget! Posts: 56 | Registered: Jun 2003
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