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Niger Delta war flares up
Nigeria’s security forces have been carrying out their biggest co-ordinated operation for more than a decade – and possibly since the Biafran war – in the Niger Delta this month, using helicopters, aircraft and gunboats as well as three battalions of ground troops to try to flush militants and criminal gangs out of the creeks around Warri.
The military says it has destroyed camps belonging to Government Tompolo in Delta state which were seen as a key training ground for rebel fighters and a hub of oil bunkering – the theft of industrial quantities of crude oil worth millions of dollars a day – in the western delta.
Major-General Sarkin-Yaki Bello, who commanded the operation, has said he ordered a pinpoint helicopter attack on Tompolo’s home in the village of Oporoza on May 15. Local residents said a traditional festival was being held at the time and that hundreds fled into neighbouring communities. They say innocent civilians were killed.
Some Ijaw community leaders have accused the military of a targeted ethnic campaign as soldiers entered remote communities in the delta’s mangrove creeks to try to hunt down suspected gang members believed to have gone into hiding.
Good day,
Fellow country men, it has seems to me our dear president Umaru Yaradua is slack in resolving the securuty issues of the Niger-delta once and for all.
The way and manner militants keep blowing up pipelines and desecrating the delta with oil spill has become appauling. One would wonder if these sole called militants bent on polluting the delta are indeed patriots the Niger-delta requires.
The answer is NO.
I see no reason why the Federal government should keep on meeting the 13% oil derivation aggrement to all problem prone Niger-delta states as it has been showned that the governors of such states are not sincere. They collaborate with the militants, habour them and provide arms and top secret information which amounts to treasonable felony.
This has to stop and sincerely speaking it’s a
I employ the military to take over the entire problem prone Niger-delta, the FG to discontinue to 13% oil derivation until a round table negotiation is finalized.
Angola is turning into Africa’s “dubair” and her government is scoring goals, i see no reason why Nigeria with all her gifts should concede the spot to angola, our government can also refurbish the entire delta to be developed like dubair & Angola.
The activities of militants must stop as there is no true developement in crisis, even when there seems to be one, it is destroyed in the long run.
A word is enough for the wise.
The time to reset is now.
Long live the federal republic.