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Newstalk Niger-Delta Militancy: Too Little Too Late or Medicine After Death The ongoing dind-dong in the Niger-delta between Ijaw insurgents and the Fulani-controlled so-called Nigerian army etc. is nothing short of an exaggerated comedy otherwise known as farce. While the Fulani response to the threat to their meal ticket is predictable, the whole Ijaw militancy enterprise is pointless, as pointless as administering medication to a patient who is already certified dead - a waste of time. Why? Because it is too little too late. Flawed Analysis and Historical BlunderThe Ijaw so-called militants (or rather their parents) got it wrong big time during the Biafra-Nigeria war several decades ago and they are reaping the consequences today. Their belated militancy componds rather than simpify their problem. There is hardly anything happening in the niger-delta today that was not accurately predicted by Radio Biafra over 4 decades ago. Not only did the Ijaw back the wrong side and fought the wrong war, they also got their basic logic wrong and this has come back to haunt them. Their many basic errors are simply unbelievable. Petroleum Act, Dina Commission etc.While the Biafran war raged, the Fulani and their Yoruba allies under the tutulege of neo-colonialists saw fit to dismantle the equitable revenue allocation formula that was bequated to Nigeria at independence. This was done via the Dina Commission on revenue allocation. Next, they enacted the Petroleum Act of 1969 which vested the control of petroleum resources in the hands of the Fulan- controlled "federal" government. This was later followed by the Land Use Decree through which the Yoruba hoped to exppropriate non-Yoruba property owners in Lagos. These measures which were originally anti-Igbo were welcomed in the Niger-delta as the essential foundation of one Nigeria. The man at the center of it was urged to go on with one Nigeria. Biafra: Oil War or Genocide?The Biafran war started as a direct consequence of the massacre of Igbo people and other easterners in Northern Nigeria. However, Fulani Islamists and their foreign mentors have continued to insist that the war was an oil war fought because of Ibo desire to seize the oil wealth of the Niger-delta. Saro-Wiwa and many Ijaw swallowed this lie which they repeated countless times in countless, to their own detriment. What the claimants of niger-delta did not realize was that if the Biafran war was all about oil, then Nigeria (i.e. the Fulani and their Yoruba allies) won and to the victor belongs the spolis. This is what some Fulani like Umaru Diko, Gambari etc. have been saying all along. How can the Niger-delta militants whose parents fought and lost an oil war expect the victors to give up their prize? The oil in the Niger-delta is a war booty. Spoils of War: Obassanjo and hid daughter control Excess Crude Oil Fund while Edwin Clark and Diete Spiff rant about eastern region (1960-66) ------------ --------- --------- ------- Ignorance as DiseaseIn 1966-1970, the Ijaw militants and their parents joined Fulani wahabist jihadists of northern Nigeria to fight their Igbo neighbours. We have grave doubts whether they knew what they were letting themslves into. How many of them knew the theology of Qutb whose scripts the Northern Nigerian islamists are following? According to Qutb, the entire Niger-delta is a land of unbelief (Dar-ur Kufir) and muslims have the right or even sacred duty to plunder it. The Fulani are plundering the land of unbelief (aka Niger-delta) with relentless zeal today. Qutb in Action in Niger-delta: Plundering the land of unbelief Broken Promises, Medicine After Death etc. Between 1970 and 2008, the Fulani islamists and their allies have plundered over $400 billion of oil from the land of unbelief (aka eastern Nigeria). They did so with the active collaboration of the delta militants and their parents, exploiting the later's irrational hatred of the Igbo. The militants and their parents were promised ownership of Port Harcourt as the HQ of their utopian empire. Obasanjo told them that if Rivers State was split, he would resign his army commision and they were euphoric. But that promise was trashed when Abacha caged the old guard and created Bayelsa State anyway. Subsequent effort to abolish Bayelsa State failed hence the militants just realized that their parents lost them $4000 billion oil money for nothing. After actively conniving with the Fulani and the Yoruba to strip the Niger-delta of $400 billion, Ijaw militancy is a study in futility. Why close the stable door after the horse has bolted? aside from the stolen $400 billion, there are simply far too many interests involved now and the idea of them gaining control of oil is a mirage. In the 1960s, there were only 5 governments in Nigeria east, west, north, midwest and federal goverment, each with a robust revenue base. Today, there are at least 20-odd governments in Northern Nigeria alone, each with a bloated bureaucracy and no revenue base. In the 1960s, Northerners used to work their arses off in groundnut pyramids to execute their pet projects of going to Mecca. Today they get it on a platter without lifting a finger courtesy of oil. Their foreign allies are used to running Nigerian oil by remote with pliant mallams in charge. None of these are about tobe given up militants or no militants. And because Ijaw militancy is pursued without co-peration or co-ordination with neighbouring groups, the Fulani do not take it seriously, dismising the militants as as mere criminals and seeking ways to co-opt or neutralize their leaders. Futile Posturing: Medicine after Death - $400 billion stolen since 1970 ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - Ijaw militancy will not lead to resource control or anything remotely near to it. The most they will get is a Nigerian president or vice president, a lame duck or token position to someone who would hold the niger-delta cow while they milk it. What it will definitely lead to in globalized economy is a rise in oil prices, a frentic search for alternative energy sources and the eventual demise of oil as critical resource. Already, appliances are appearing in the market powered by water and Japanese manufactureres are coming out with cars which use water insted of petrol. The stone age did not end because of shortage of stones, rather people found better way of doing things. And even if oil remained useful, the much vaunted Niger-delta oil is predicted to run out in 4 decades. Then the people of eastern Nigeria will be left alone to pick the pieces. Life After Oil: To Your Tents Oh IsraelWe have seen how irrational hatred against the Igbo has led to the stripping of Niger-delta of over $400 billion by Fulani islamists and the Yoruba allies following the teaching of Qutb. Nothing was invested in eastern region. Even the city of Port Harcourt which should have been home to over 20 million easternes was sabotaged via the abandoned property treachery. The Ijaw miltants and their parents were responsible for this disaster. Even today, they continue to rant about how they were cheated in the eastern region by the Igbo even as the Fulanis continue to plunder oil at the rate of 6million barrels/day. When the oil madness is over, the people of the area will be left alone and the stock taking will begin. It will not be business as usual..Global warming and coastal flooding is already causing havoc around the world. The area now occupied by Ijaw militants and their parents are water logged in normal times. Rising tides will submerge the area completely and permanently, sending Ijaw refugees northwards in search of dryland to settle. These Ijaw will not go to, Katsina, Bauchi or Kano where Sharia law is already erected to bar them. They will head to Igboland and come face to face with Igbo people who have been demonized by the strident, inflmatory proclamations of Edwin Clarke, Diette Spiff and others. It is not going to be fun. Diette Spiff - an Epitaph for inter-group relations post-oil: "... we want to stay within Nigeria, and if we are going to change, we are not going to go to Biafra... God forbid! " ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -Already in southern Nigeria, Ijaw attempt to settle in drylands away from the flood zones has brought them into conflict with the Edo in Ovia leading to the Oba of Benin to ordering them to obey Edo laws or leave Edoland. In Ilaje, they are at war with the Yoruba over land. In Warri, they are at war with the Itsekiri over land. In Port Harcourt, they are laying claims to land owned by the Igbo. The problem with gold is there is always someone wanting to take it from you. Ditto for oil. Not even the murder of over 3 million Igbo in 1966-70 would deter the oil interests. The Qutbian plunder of Dar ur-kufir, the land of unbelief, will continue until the entire niger-delta is mined to unproductive dust. Then and only then will the local plunderers and their foreign allies pack their bags and move elsewhere. NC NSIBIDI PRESS t
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Newstalk Niger-Delta Militancy: Too Little Too Late or Medicine After Death
The ongoing dind-dong in the Niger-delta between Ijaw insurgents and the Fulani-controlled so-called Nigerian army etc. is nothing short of an exaggerated comedy otherwise known as farce. While the Fulani response to the threat to their meal ticket is predictable, the whole Ijaw militancy enterprise is pointless, as pointless as administering medication to a patient who is already certified dead - a waste of time. Why? Because it is too little too late.
Flawed Analysis and Historical Blunder The Ijaw so-called militants (or rather their parents) got it wrong big time during the Biafra-Nigeria war several decades ago and they are reaping the consequences today. Their belated militancy componds rather than simpify their problem.
There is hardly anything happening in the niger-delta today that was not accurately predicted by Radio Biafra over 4 decades ago. Not only did the Ijaw back the wrong side and fought the wrong war, they also got their basic logic wrong and this has come back to haunt them. Their many basic errors are simply unbelievable.
Petroleum Act, Dina Commission etc. While the Biafran war raged, the Fulani and their Yoruba allies under the tutulege of neo-colonialists saw fit to dismantle the equitable revenue allocation formula that was bequated to Nigeria at independence. This was done via the Dina Commission on revenue allocation. Next, they enacted the Petroleum Act of 1969 which vested the control of petroleum resources in the hands of the Fulan- controlled "federal" government. This was later followed by the Land Use Decree through which the Yoruba hoped to exppropriate non-Yoruba property owners in Lagos. These measures which were originally anti-Igbo were welcomed in the Niger-delta as the essential foundation of one Nigeria. The man at the center of it was urged to go on with one Nigeria.
Biafra: Oil War or Genocide? The Biafran war started as a direct consequence of the massacre of Igbo people and other easterners in Northern Nigeria. However, Fulani Islamists and their foreign mentors have continued to insist that the war was an oil war fought because of Ibo desire to seize the oil wealth of the Niger-delta. Saro-Wiwa and many Ijaw swallowed this lie which they repeated countless times in countless, to their own detriment. What the claimants of niger-delta did not realize was that if the Biafran war was all about oil, then Nigeria (i.e. the Fulani and their Yoruba allies) won and to the victor belongs the spolis. This is what some Fulani like Umaru Diko, Gambari etc. have been saying all along. How can the Niger-delta militants whose parents fought and lost an oil war expect the victors to give up their prize? The oil in the Niger-delta is a war booty.
Spoils of War: Obassanjo and daughter hid control of Excess Crude Oil Fund while Edwin Clark and Diete Spiff rant about eastern region (1960-66) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ignorance as Disease In 1966-1970, the Ijaw militants and their parents joined Fulani wahabist jihadists of northern Nigeria to fight their Igbo neighbours. We have grave doubts whether they knew what they were letting themslves into. How many of them knew the theology of Qutb whose scripts the Northern Nigerian islamists are following? According to Qutb, the entire Niger-delta is a land of unbelief (Dar-ur Kufir) and muslims have the right or even sacred duty to plunder it. The Fulani are plundering the land of unbelief (aka Niger-delta) with relentless zeal today.
Qutb in Action in Niger-delta: Plundering the land of unbelief
Broken Promises, Medicine After Death etc.
Between 1970 and 2008, the Fulani islamists and their allies have plundered over $400 billion of oil from the land of unbelief (aka eastern Nigeria). They did so with the active collaboration of the delta militants and their parents, exploiting the later's irrational hatred of the Igbo. The militants and their parents were promised ownership of Port Harcourt as the HQ of their utopian empire. Obasanjo told them that if Rivers State was split, he would resign his army commision and they were euphoric. But that promise was trashed when Abacha caged the old guard and created Bayelsa State anyway. Subsequent effort to abolish Bayelsa State failed hence the militants just realized that their parents lost them $4000 billion oil money for nothing.
After actively conniving with the Fulani and the Yoruba to strip the Niger-delta of $400 billion, Ijaw militancy is a study in futility. Why close the stable door after the horse has bolted? aside from the stolen $400 billion, there are simply far too many interests involved now and the idea of them gaining control of oil is a mirage.
In the 1960s, there were only 5 governments in Nigeria east, west, north, midwest and federal goverment, each with a robust revenue base. Today, there are at least 20-odd governments in Northern Nigeria alone, each with a bloated bureaucracy and no revenue base. In the 1960s, Northerners used to work their arses off in groundnut pyramids to execute their pet projects of going to Mecca. Today they get it on a platter without lifting a finger courtesy of oil. Their foreign allies are used to running Nigerian oil by remote with pliant mallams in charge. None of these are about tobe given up militants or no militants. And because Ijaw militancy is pursued without co-peration or co-ordination with neighbouring groups, the Fulani do not take it seriously, dismising the militants as as mere criminals and seeking ways to co-opt or neutralize their leaders.
Futile Posturing: Medicine after Death - $400 billion stolen since 1970
Ijaw militancy will not lead to resource control or anything remotely near to it. The most they will get is a Nigerian president or vice president, a lame duck or token position to someone who would hold the niger-delta cow while they milk it.
What it will definitely lead to in globalized economy is a rise in oil prices, a frentic search for alternative energy sources and the eventual demise of oil as critical resource. Already, appliances are appearing in the market powered by water and Japanese manufactureres are coming out with cars which use water insted of petrol. The stone age did not end because of shortage of stones, rather people found better way of doing things. And even if oil remained useful, the much vaunted Niger-delta oil is predicted to run out in 4 decades. Then the people of eastern Nigeria will be left alone to pick the pieces.
Life After Oil: To Your Tents Oh Israel We have seen how irrational hatred against the Igbo has led to the stripping of Niger-delta of over $400 billion by Fulani islamists and the Yoruba allies following the teaching of Qutb. Nothing was invested in eastern region. Even the city of Port Harcourt which should have been home to over 20 million easternes was sabotaged via the abandoned property treachery. The Ijaw miltants and their parents were responsible for this disaster. Even today, they continue to rant about how they were cheated in the eastern region by the Igbo even as the Fulanis continue to plunder oil at the rate of 6million barrels/day. When the oil madness is over, the people of the area will be left alone and the stock taking will begin. It will not be business as usual. . Global warming and coastal flooding is already causing havoc around the world. The area now occupied by Ijaw militants and their parents are water logged in normal times. Rising tides will submerge the area completely and permanently, sending Ijaw refugees northwards in search of dryland to settle. These Ijaw will not go to, Katsina, Bauchi or Kano where Sharia law is already erected to bar them. They will head to Igboland and come face to face with Igbo people who have been demonized by the strident, inflmatory proclamations of Edwin Clarke, Diette Spiff and others. It is not going to be fun.
Diette Spiff - an Epitaph for inter-group relations post-oil: "... we want to stay within Nigeria, and if we are going to change, we are not going to go to Biafra... God forbid!" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Already in southern Nigeria, Ijaw attempt to settle in drylands away from the flood zones has brought them into conflict with the Edo in Ovia leading to the Oba of Benin to ordering them to obey Edo laws or leave Edoland. In Ilaje, they are at war with the Yoruba over land. In Warri, they are at war with the Itsekiri over land. In Port Harcourt, they are laying claims to land owned by the Igbo.
The problem with gold is there is always someone wanting to take it from you. Ditto for oil. Not even the murder of over 3 million Igbo in 1966-70 would deter the oil interests. The Qutbian plunder of Dar ur-kufir, the land of unbelief, will continue until the entire niger-delta is mined to unproductive dust. Then and only then will the local plunderers and their foreign allies pack their bags and move elsewhere. NC
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I disagree with the above assessment. The reason while these people will previal is that they are not against Nigeria as a whole or asking to opt out of Nigeria, they are asking for what is due them. The fight is not againt Nigeria but rather against the DESERET RATS in the North who thinks they have the upper hand in matters that concerns Nigeria. The North will defintely loose and the stigma now is that the North is lazy and scallewags for the rest of the country. I will not condem any terroristic acts against the North and the Abuja by this Group. They will previal, it is just a matter of time. Kudos to the struggle. If they succeed, it is good for all Nigerians and if they fail, not good for all.
READ THIS FROM NIGERIAN NEWS PAPER.
......According to Yar'Adua, restoring security in the area could allow Nigeria to provide an additional 1.2 million barrels of oil a day to the global market. Also, militants in the Niger Delta have threatened to start launching attacks on the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja and some parts of the North. The planned attacks are in protest by the militants against the pact reportedly signed by Nigeria with Britain on how to contain youth restiveness in the Niger Delta. Leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Voluntary Force (NDPVF), Alhaji Mujaheed Dokubo-Asari, disclosed this in an interview with the Nigerian Tribune on Thursday. Dokubo-Asari had made the same threat while participating in a current affairs programme aired early in the day by the Broadcasting Corporation of Oyo State (BCOS). He said the people of Niger Delta would not wait for the Federal Government to declare a full-scale war on them in partnership with Britain, and so would pre-empt it by declaring war on the North. “If somebody tells you openly that he is bringing war to your doorstep, you don’t wait for him to do so; you rather act quickly by taking war to his own doorstep. “If that is what Yar’Adua and the people in Abuja had resolved to do, then, it is better for the militants to start attacking Abuja and other parts of the North. Dokubo-Asari asked Nigeria to query President Yar’Adua on the reason behind the government’s decision to seek the assistance of the G8 in addressing the Niger Delta question, “when, indeed, such interventionist approach in other countries had only succeeded in prompting full scale wars.”
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