Military operations in the Niger Delta - 16 Aug 08

[Okoroman]

Fact: Hausa-fulani and Yoruba oligarchs ruled & mismanaged Nigeria for over 40 yrs, looted over $400 billion dollars from resources of Niger Delta Eastern Region Biafra & Mid-Western nationalities, rigged all elections, refused a Sovereign National Conference, subverted justice, promoted criminality of sorts across the geospace Nigeria and abused "Nigerians". The problem of the Niger delta is not a development problem; It is a JUSTICE problem. The people need and demand their FREEDOM back

[flyguyinmotion]

Nigeria never seem to take care of it's people. Revolution, revolution it never ends.

[Bristow42]

Their oil

[0102106kls]

be strong my warrior kings house of juda will stand

[Islammormonfalse]

word

[dire1231]

true word mr,gov got no right to point their stinking fingers

[cydersteve]

People from there still drag their knuckles on the ground when they walk, one nuke answers all the problem

[Nnfefe]

Waiting for the orbituary of niggeria

[vixxy02]

@Nnfefe Waiting for the obituary of CONGO......I forgot it's already been published!..ANUOFIA!!

[fenriz218]

Shit those poor nigers are eventually going to hurt themselves with those weapons and the oil.

It would be a humanitarian effort to take both away from them and instead give them Nerf (tm) water-pistols and Fisher-Price toy-mining tools. Made of rubber so unless they swallow them ... they'll be safe.

And I say: Coca Cola for Oil, fair 1:1. These people like sugar better than oil, keeps them tranquil and happy.

[ambagoli21]

@fenriz218 besides they dont even really know what to do with the oil... they just know we want it.

[blackfeatherarchery]

@fenriz218 ...That comment isn't needed,

[gmpninja]

Hail Hitler !

[Niger2008ProjectPlay]

cydersteve your messed up, you need help

[GR0sSo]

now i hate nigers :D

[penumbrae9]

It really breaks my heart to see these people suffering from the pollution of their land because of the oil companies and the greed of their government and refusal to do anything to really compensate them for destroying their livelihoods...then calling them criminals for taking the oil that is coming from their own land when they have no other retribution for the crimes against them and their homes. It is a very complex and upsetting situation,

[emmanuelbear1kUK]

Only God can help us in that country... I believe everything will soon be alright through prayers... Change thats all we need and "YES WE CAN"

[123123Bear]

thats Sarkasm right?

[mongolotto]

the delta of niger river

[chuba6785]

Can someone please tell me one thing that is positve about nigeria? too much negativity. i can't stand it.

God please help us!!!!

[MsFrittas]

@chuba6785 watch?v=eqLtVmnsfmc& <----watch this === Aljazeeraenglishtv has hidden agenda's, I have noticed how adamant they are on only reporting the negative sides of Nigeria. But hey these corrupt people need a taste of Karma's wraft. The pharmaceutical companies stoping fumigation efforts of mosquitoes causing malari, the deadliest killer ever. Just to not lose money in ppl buying medicines. The generator importers holding Nigerians hostage from having 24hr electricity. plz !!

[MONOPOLY8650]

Shameful to see military man making comment about oil. Go back to the barak and learn to develop strategies how to defend and protect your people instead of beating and killing them.

[cydersteve]

Fuckin NIGERS why not ship them over and put them in monkey world.

[MONOPOLY8650]

Always have eyes to steal more oil

[gorene65]

why don't you just shut up, i'm nigerian

[leostudzine]

You are a disgusting, uneducated, disgrace to anyone with any intelligence. You literally could not embarrass me more to be the same species as you. (I'm white)

I imagine you're deeply unhappy and have no prospect of ever having friends.

[olojulagbari]

Nigeria is a cursed land.Now they have started looting banks.Our cheif bankers are fleeing now with billions abroad.

[djoguns]

Dont say what you do not know. What is cursed and who is cursed?

[Onyibeb]

Nigeria is cursed for the millions of Biafrans it killed and continues to kill.

[triumphelf]

China will control all there OIL..LMAO!!

[Onyibeb]

You know foolish Nigerians often wonder why their fate has suddenly turned to the worst. They do not know that as evil paradise God stepped out of their land and forsook them the way Biafrans did. God has taken sides, Nigeria is dead and gone for good. Biafra is alive!

[Onyibeb]

Lake Chad has virtually dried out, the people are flat out, but would not humble themselves to be rehabilitated by Biafra. And so they continue to cling to guns to continue to rob others of their natural endowment. So do you think they will be humble enough to take your advise, those vandals and bloodsuckers.

[InfiniteMushroom]

This is not a "complex problem". This is the result of Economic Hit Men who came in decades ago and forced the government to take on unpayable debt to the New York and London banks, using Nigeria's oil as collateral.

Since Nigeria can never repay the debt, let alone fully pay the interest, the pledged oil is extracted with none of the benefits going to the people. A percentage of the profits are sent back to fund military police to suppress the people and bribe the politicians.

[sams1011]

The military man's english says it all. He is a breed of evil nation. That man is not smart and not educated. Yaradua and his people shame to you.

[benofoma]

Nigerians must begin to think ahead now. Now is the time!The next set of pretenders to the presidency and state governorships are gearing up to continue business as usual in 2011.

In the next election anyone who aspires to any position must provide a detailed plan on how he/she plans to tackle the unjust resource system in Nigeria among other issues.

It is based on these plans that they can win/lose our votes.Lets wake up people!

We must fight now for thorough electoral reforms.POWER to D PEOPLE

[InfiniteMushroom]

Sounds like Nigeria is having the same political problems that the U.S. is having. The U.S. hasn't had a legitimate presidential candidates since 1960. Even the illusion of legitimate elections was lost after 1980. The U.S. is a slave of the offshore banks and their agents.

The world's super elites are determining the architecture of the political future, not the people or their local institutions. Nigeria will always be a captive nation until it evicts the western bankers and their agents.

[Onyibeb]

Nigeria is not like US, stop deluding yourself. NIgeria is a failed state, ruled by gangsters and vandals.

[InfiniteMushroom]

Precisely. Yet, you fail to consider just how Nigeria got into this condition in the first place.

These gangsters and vandals are puppets installed by the global banking mafia to prevent any successful uprising by the tribes against their agents in power.

Every 3rd world nation has been a victim to the same model coup first used against Mohammed Mossadegh of Iran in 1954. It features political destabilization, social upheaval, looting of national assets, and installation of puppet tyrants

[Onyibeb]

You would be surprised they are more of stooges of Bin Laden than the west.

[InfiniteMushroom]

You proved my point. Osama bin Laden was trained and set up by the CIA. The bin Laden family are personal friends of George Bush.

Right after the Feds staged the Twin Towers terror attack on 9-11-01, Bush got the bin Ladens out of the U.S. in direct violation of his own order to ground all airliners. It was in the news but, the story was squashed afterwards. I remember it all.

There are usually 6 layers of command and control between the White House, the CIA, and local terror groups.

[Onyibeb]

God bless you!

[Okoroman]

"[I am not a Nigerian and God never created me a Nigerian, so if Nigeria is tensed up that is the business of Nigeria. I am an Ijaw man. That is where God created me. Ijaw nation was forcefully taken over by the British which eventually lumped it into an entity called Nigeria.]"

Asari Dokubo, Nigerian Tribune, 17/08/08.

[Biafrans7]

"What right does Femi Otedola and Aliko Dangote and others have to take our oil while somebody from the oil community does not have the right to take it." --------------- Asari Dokubo. Daily Independent Newspapers. Thursday June 25, 2009.

[Biafrans7]

"This so-called amnesty is the latest in a series of "Greek gift" awarded to the people of the Niger Delta to enable smooth access to the oil in our communities. Others include the Niger Delta Development Commission (which was designed to fail from the onset) and the ministry of Niger Delta headquartered in Abuja. The Yar'Adua Junta has failed the people of Ijaw and Niger Delta..." ---------- Joint Revolutionary Council -- Daily Champion Newspapers. Sunday June 28, 2009.

[akalakalking]

that's black market oil that i've been told has been sold in cities of vice and corruption. a government only corrupts itself if it's leaders have no faith in the land on which it was established, that is nigeria's case. we can talk about the same thing over and over but when will we come together for some action, sustainable action?

[olojulagbari]

Please watch "NIGERIAN MILITANTS UNDER FIRE" @2:00 Shame on Niaja information commissioner.

[jondobigballs]

Who are these bafoons working for? The Nigerian people or some International company with the the help of our Uncle Tom Politrickians..

Please, Please, please someone help me to understand this madness???

[goldenismonica]

i just want to strangle the man at 2:25 he is still slaving for the white man. instead of nigeria to stand up to shell and chevron they just sit back and do nothing because white man said so.

this is why the white man is still controlling nigeria today.

[chuby001]

it has nothing to do with the oil companies people should stop blaming the oil companies, what is the nigerian goverment doing with all the money they make from oil... Its the corrupt goverment and certain top officials arre making money from all this militants stuff that is happening

[goldenismonica]

thats exactly what i said in my comment.

the oil companies make a mess and nigeria does nothing.

after all its their country they have the right to tell shell or chevron what and what not to do.

but the nigerian politicians just sit down and do nothing.

they are bastards! i cant stand all those fucks.

nigeria's government needs a change and fast!

[aquerius23]

Nigeria is a CREATION of the Europeans, brothers to the OWNERS of the oil companies, SHELL-.Dutch, BP->British, ELF->French. How is it hard for you to draw the OBVIOUS link??!!

[goldenismonica]

im tired of watching all these videos because when i leave a comment on my view of the topic, someone always wants to come back and argue. that is exactly what is wrong with nigerians: all they fucking do it argue. instead of everyone to shut up and feel sad about the situation, they are the first ones trying to pick a fight over something stupid and running their mouths. innocent lives are being lose and all people want to do is come here and talk shit to each other.

sigh...

[aquerius23]

You can sit your overly pampered ass in comfortable UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and spit out nonesense to those right in the CENTER SQUARE of the chaos in Nigeria.. Dont leave ANY comment, if you dont want a follow up! because thats exactly the goal here! to DISCUSS and hopefully UNDERSTAND the gravity of the HORRORS the Europeans have put on our doorstep! Focus on the pain of these HELPLESS people and dont make it about you right in the usa!! OUTRAGEOUS!

[goldenismonica]

im not overly pampered. people assume that all americans are stuck up snobby people. i know what its like to have nothing. my mother was a single mom with no fucking job and we were basically poor. then she managed to work her way through college with the help of people and give us a better life here in the states so dont tell me that im overly pampered.

and im not even talking nonsense. most people here feel the same way about this issue. arguing doesnt help.

[goldenismonica]

i cant even talk on the intenet because no one understands the tone im speaking in. when you read something from the you tend to read it in the way you want it to be read and not the way its actually coming across.

fuck that im from USA. i dont care about that. im just saying the nigerian government lets chevron, shell, and others control them instead of them taking action against it. instead of them to tell shell what needs to be done, since it is their country, they just sit back and watch.

[Biafrans7]

goldenismonica, you have to read up about Nigeria to understand the background and forces that are shaping events in it. You may do that in Wikipedia for a start. The greatest force shaping events in Nigeria is ethnicity, followed by Religion, then resources, colonisation, greed, ignorance etc.

[Navi1764]

@Biafrans7 Hmm sounds alot like Europe.

[mixerd0822]

sdrew you you rascist mother fucker!stop looking at black vs white and get a job,you will feel better

[aquerius23]

Feel better about what?....That inane comment makes any COMPREHENSIBLE sense, or just caters to your mixed ass?

[goldenismonica]

im still praying.

one day a miracle must happen.

[Biafrans7]

"After its 2nd Assembly in Portharcourt, Rivers State, the 150 delegates of Niger Delta leaders in a statement issued yesterday by a prominent monarch, King Alfred Diette-Spiff and Alabo Tonye Graham-Douglas, declared the military operation a "genocide." ---- Guardian Newspapers. Thursday May 28, 2009.

[Biafrans7]

"Troops on tuesday intensified their offensiive against Okerenkoko, another community in Delta State, razing down all buildings in the all-out confrontation against militants intent on making life impossible in the deep south..."..."..Community leaders said over 200 homes in Okerenkoko, the second largest settlement after Oporoza in Gbaramatu Kingdom were left desolate by the Joint Task Force (JTF) --- Daily Independent Newspapers. Wednesday May 20, 2009.

[suhoi1992]

fucking niger

[aquerius23]

Satanic Bastard MUTATED NIGGER!... Shut your fucking face and look at what Your kind with its PUTRID NATURE has done to the planet with your URANIUM BOMBS!....Fucking cunts who LOST THEIR MELANIN and since being acting like the DEVIL to all the ethnic tribes!!

[olojulagbari]

OMA DJEBAH the Nigerian information minister can not even speak fluent English. Likewise the rest of them in the offices.Poor leadership based on corruptions,and not on qualifications. We could understand the illiterate millitants even better.Watch"Nigeria millitants under fire"to see what i saw

[olasukebe]

there is no point talking about dividing nigeria, the government and the rich men in nigeria who stole and destroy the country and the guys who turn thereself into millitants are equally guilty, two wrong doesnt make a right, and we shouldnt get that before oil was discovered, the revenue from cocoa from the south west was used to finance the whole country

[Biafrans7]

The future lies with the decisions the oppressed nationalities of Nigeria make today. If you all are tired of Hausa-fulani and Yoruba oligarchs stealing your resources which may run out finally to your total loss and their total advantage, you can organize, campaign, persuade your peoples to first stand with those oppressed and leave Nigeria. It shall never be easy but your lives and childrens' lives depend on that.

[Nathanarm]

Oil companies work alongside with the Government of Nigeria to destroy villages so that oil companies can pave way for a new pipeline or infrastructure, would you stand by the government... trust it with your vote for what ever thats worth in the corruption and watch as your town furthermore your house is being torn down so the first world doesnt have to complain about 20 cents being added on gas prices.

[2lou007]

they are not terrorist, the niger delta is being raped by the oil companies and the govt, how can the richest part of nigeria be in such poverty.this is pure evil

[alaigboanya]

Chidi Izuwah, you know how to calculate lost, you can't tell how much is your gain and where you invest those billions of dollars you make from oil.

[Biafrans7]

"...for centuries, the Niger Delta was literally a backwater of small subsistence communities, but since the discovery of petroleum, the people's environment has been polluted and rendered useless...consequently,..pover­ty increased and with it, anger..as soon as the people became angry, they were branded as terrorists, as obstacles in the way of prosperity. And so, they were hunted down." - Former Ghanaian President, Jerry Rawlings at Portharcourt. Guardian Newspapers. Tuesday October 14, 2008.

[Biafrans7]

Anyone not willing to respect your rights does not give an iota of concern about your humanity. Nigeria has not only violated the rights of Biafrans but has done so to the enormity of death. This evil nation along with its principal operatives of doom shall harvest death as retribution of its vile deeds.

[calexculux]

Yeah wheezkeed, I explained but they never listen. It's though their problem, not mine u would be suprised when other states and countries develop while their likes still shout divide,biafra!!.

[Okoroman]

"I am not a Nigerian and God never created me a Nigerian, so if Nigeria is tensed up that is the business of Nigeria. I am an Ijaw man. That is where God created me. Ijaw nation was forcefully taken over by the British which eventually lumped it into an entity called Nigeria."

(Asari Dokubo, Nigerian Tribune, August 17 2008.)

[olakelvin]

okoroman or what did you call yourself ? i think you are lack of knowledge ,i'm actually lagos islander boy and naija for life. what you don't understant is is that is your ijaw leaders that are selling you people away bcos they were the corrupted governors in nigeria bcos they steal all the money that suppose to use to build your state. for example bayelsa governor

[Biafrans7]

The resources in an particular geographical area belongs to the rightful land-owners. Nigeria's government hijacked by the Hausa-Fulani Islamic, jihadist, genocidist criminals and their serving Yoruba oligarchs like Olusegun Obasanjo employ the instrument of state power to usurp and plunder natural resources of ethnic nationalities in the Delta. As is evident, Nigeria's leaders are devout criminals of the first order.

[Okoroman]

Fellow Biafrans, It has never been a secret that we are under occupation by Nigeria and her forces. The fact that Nigeria has now moved its prepared-for-battle military units into our land without our permission or consent is another proof of this occupation.

[Okoroman]

As you well know, Biafraland is now an official battleground as Nigeria deploys its troops to kill Biafran people in what Nigeria considers frontlines, the Niger Delta; and as Nigerian military take over our Biafran cities such as Umuahia, Aba and Port Harcourt, to convert them into garrisons for their administrative and logistic support.

[Okoroman]

Yes, Nigeria, under YarAdua, says it has declared war in the Niger Delta Biafran territory. He, YarAdua, went to the G8 World Leaders Conference and blackmailed them into promising help in subduing the Niger Delta, using the fact of rising Oil prices and the resultant world-wide economic hardship.

[Okoroman]

It is to be noted that the psychopath and kleptomaniac, Aremu Obasanjo, who ruled Nigeria before him, had failed in his own bid to lure Western powers into fighting Nigerias immoral and colonial war against the Niger Delta.

[Okoroman]

For the benefit of the pretend-deaf, pretend-blind, and those in denial, let us remind all of what the Niger Delta problem is all about. There is Oil in the region. That Oil is not in Nigeria: it is in Biafraland. There is a lot of that Oil in the Niger Delta territory proper of Biafra.

[Okoroman]

Nigeria, using greedy exploitative colonial as well as deliberately punitive policies in the form of its so-called Land Use Decree, claimed and took possession of all of Oil-producing Niger Delta land as Nigerian Government property, specifically so that it can take control and ownership of the Oil.

[Okoroman]

Of note: such a decree had never been applied to any other part of Nigeria; the Nigerian government could never dream of even claiming as Nigerian territory what Northern Nigerians regard as their own holy Muslim Land of their own Nation of Islam.

[Okoroman]

Yet, that was not all. Nigeria, in its ongoing policy of subjugation, looting and punishment of Biafra, uses all of the revenue from the Oil to develop and modernize the Northern part of Nigeria and some parts of Western Nigeria, and to enrich Northern Nigerian military and feudal leaders, as well as a few Western Nigerian individuals.

[Okoroman]

Out of sheer malice and loathe for Biafra, Nigeria vehemently refuses to spend any proceeds from the Oil for the benefit of the Niger Delta people, let alone for repairing the disastrous ecological and biosphere damage done in the region as a direct result of oil exploration therein.

[Okoroman]

For over forty years, and following the Biafra War, such pernicious deprivation of the Niger Delta has been carried out as a matter of deliberate policy by Nigeria. Somehow, YarAdua, not known for historical memory, and steeped in the tradition of his Hausa-Fulani Northern Nigeria descent, has chosen to gloss over this foundational causative for the problems of the area.

[Okoroman]

We are certain that he wont get it either when we point out that Nigeria gladly gave away Bakassi to Cameroun, too, much to the horror of protesting but helpless and hapless Bakassi people; why? Bakassi is another part of Biafran Territory with substantial Oil reserves: how better for Nigeria to continue to dispossess Biafra?

[Okoroman]

Today, Nigeria says it is fighting criminals, militants, miscreants and Oil thieves in the Niger Delta, as YarAdua would intone at the G8 conference. But the truth and real motive was let out by Gambari, who was recently appointed by the same YarAdua to head yet another sham Niger Delta token, deceptive appeasement panel. Gambari announced promptly to the whole world that the people of Niger Delta do not own any land and have nothing: the Niger Delta land belongs to Nigeria.

[Okoroman]

So, it should be clear what is behind Nigeria going to the Niger Delta to kill Niger Delta people in the name of waging war against criminals, militants, miscreants and oil thieves in Niger Delta. Nigeria just wants the Oil, for Nigeria, and nothing for Niger Delta, at all costs. For the Oil, Nigeria will destroy the Niger Delta people whom it has no need for; Nigeria just wants to continue to exploit Biafras Oil and keep punishing Biafra.

[Okoroman]

Truth is that so-called Oil Bunkerers / thieves are Nigerias high officials and influential Nigerians well-known to, groomed and protected by, Nigeria. Truth is that most ordinary Nigerians, at that, do not benefit from the oil revenues, anyway: leave that to greedy Nigerian leaders and their friends and family who have managed to squander a mind-boggling estimated $500B from Oil proceeds in the past 40 years.

[Okoroman]

These Babangidas, Obasanjos, Abachas, Danjumas, Dangotes, YarAduas and their cronies of Nigeria are right there, enjoying the benefits of their greed and corruption. They stash their loot in foreign countries and whitewash their image with the eager help of foreign firms and their governments.

[wheezkeed]

Okor, You are a LIAR, a LIAR and A LIAR. The Delta gets the 13% allocation that was agreed upon AND THEIR LEADERS STEAL THE MONEY. The corruption issue is a big problem and the youths are trying to solve it, but you tribalist RATS want to divide Nigeria and throw us into an unimaginable war. To hall with you, and to hell with your ilk.

[Okoroman]

Resource control: Niger-Delta governors are traitors - Evah

Vanguard Tuesday, July 19, 2005

"The governors of the Niger-Delta have openly shown that they are traitors. President Obasanjo called the South-South governors to Calabar and promised to give them oil blocks if they will frustrate their delegates" Joseph Evah

[Okoroman]

If anybody is waiting for the oppressor to do something for them, it will be the "Efulefu" (criminals, thieves and traitors), the Abuja contractors. Such persons act out of their selfish/criminal ambitions, and therefore Biafran masses (in 10s of millions) cannot be faulted for the action(s) of the "efulefu".

[Okoroman]

"[The Odi invasion by our investigation was premeditated. It was carefully planned to annihilate the people in order to make things smooth and easy for the oil companies. ]"

[Okoroman]

"[The invasion was called operation Hakuri II by the Minister of Defence, General T.Y. Danjuma. Briefing the Ministerial Conference on November 25, he explained Operation Hakuri II on Odi and other communities of the Niger Delta thus:

"This Operation Hakuri II was initiated with the mandate of protecting lives and property - particularly oil platforms flow stations, operating rig terminals and pipelines refineries and power installation in the Niger Delta." ]"

[Okoroman]

"[In other words, it was for oil and oil alone that the soldiers who are today maintained with oil money from Odi and other communities of the Niger Delta went to Odi to commit those atrocities.]"

[calexculux]

haha u and this efulefu

[classics218]

i want to especially thank the Nigerian government for making the Niger Delta issue escalate.

[classics218]

it used to be the expatriates getting kidnapped for ransom. Now due to lack of employment, kidnapping is the new job in Port Harcourt. "u are a recent grad. with no job?" well get some hoodlums together and kidnap a toddler or the grandmother of a prominent figure and u will make money(5million naira on avg. for ransom).

[classics218]

The issue in the delta is getting to : " how do i eat food in my own country" its dat bad... just ask the recent grads from universities. Everyone is either kidnapping or sitting on the computer sending scam emails to survive. Tell me why i should ever blame anyone for getting a scam email.

[zweeterion]

I wish the Americans and other major oil consumers would find an alternative.Their oil dollars fund and sustain corrupt regimes and proxy oil wars in Africa.

[Biafrans7]

zeho0002, The bitter and poisonous source of political power which has had incalculable ruinous effect on Nigeria flows from the PRESIDENCY or office of the HEAD OF STATE which the Hausa-fulani Islamic jihadist genocidists and Yoruba Oligarchs like Obasanjo have manned and steered for the past 48 years. The blame must be laid at its appropriate source.

[hilsey]

to be fair if it wasn't for shell, chevron etc then there wouldn't be an oil production at all. I don't think that the locals deserve anything.

[Biafrans7]

hilsey, well, there is shell, chevron, mobil, agip etc and oil production since 1958(50 years) so what do the locals deserve?

[hilsey]

rather than just sit there saying we want to be paid because its our oil they should be in control of their own futures. If you want some of the oil wealth then you have to involved in the industry, the possibility of work is payment enough. These people just want to do nothing.

[Biafrans7]

Hilsey, Your land and its resources belong to its rightful occupants, in this case, Niger Deltans. To remove the resources which is their property without their consent is criminal, and the Nigerian government is the culprit. To accuse the 7 million inhabitants of NigerDelta of indolence and a lethargic approach to labor when they are robbed, their environment polluted causing sickness and death for fifty years, and the government ignoring their calls for remedy, that long, is unconscionable.

[hilsey]

If they were that clever they would be doing it themselves. There skills go no further than being able to carry buckets on their heads. I am just saying that to think they could run such a large scale operation is rediculous. They need the big oil companies to do the work and any benefits they get such as jobs etc is a bonus. If the oil companies turned around and said fine, you have it back the people wouldn't have a clue. Its a little bit more complex than turning a tap on...

[Biafrans7]

hilsey, Oil companies like Shell have been sacked in some places in the Niger Delta, like Ogoni land. The others follow. hilsey, you seem to be heard of hearing. The owners of the resource determines what is done with it. It is their ownership rights that are violated. It is their resources that are stolen by Hausa-fulani Jihadists and Yoruba Oligarchs in the name of "Nigerian government." It is their environment, cardinal to their very existence, that is polluted. "get out" if they say so.

[hilsey]

oil is only worth something if it can be drilled same as gold if it can be mined. The local people have neither the brains or the resources to extract the oil so therefore they should go back to the forests and leave it to the professionals.

[calexculux]

I agree, but this oil buyers should know and they should reduce the amount of oil they buy, they should presurrize the government to help and clean this areas... just like what one man said'we have everything, but we lack just one(evil leaders).

[zeho0002]

We are limiting the problem to regional, tribal causes. That means we are really not looking at truely solving this problem. The leaders of Nigerdelta, from local government leaders, to state sentors, to House representatives and then governors bear large reponsibility as well. leaders like Peter Odili, who won 100% of your vote! How is that even possible? In anycase I rather we discuss how to solve the problem.

[Onyibeb]

How can some one like you be writing about votes and elections in Nigeria. Who votes and who elects, not to talk about 100%? You must be far away from reality. The nations you call tribes, and the regions to wrote about are realities which you cannot wish away. If it were unimportant, why did you agree amongst yourselves that nobody apart from the gang of robbers you call leaders - the Hausa/Fulani/Yoruba oligarchy - is to rule the country?

[owiz22]

"A man who chooses to fight monsters must see to it that in the process he does not become a monster, because one you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks right back into you"- Nietzsche ...... We have heard this crap before: RUF, FARC, etc .... who are we kidding ?? they are no freedom fighters ... In choosing to fight monsters MEND has become the most ruthless and senseless of all the monsters .. They are no better than the satanic government.

[Onyibeb]

what do you suggest that MEND should do? Sit duck to be slaughtered like Saro Wiwa, Odi, Okigwe? Could you tell us what they should do in the face of your ravaging criminal gang like Abacha, Obasanjo, and now Yar'Adua, and several others?

[calexculux]

But what can we do? what can be done?

We must also blame those that buy the oil, they should know what this pollutioon can cause to this nigeria ppl.

[Onyibeb]

No we must first tell the Nigerian government to take its forces of occupation from the people's land, concede their natural resources to them, and plead for support from the people. The land, the oil and everything in that land belongs to the Niger Delta people, not the Hausa/fulani/Yoruba oligachy that is taking it by force.

[jonnymvura]

im muslim and repect the hausa but fuck shell . these men fight in the niger delta for freedom and there people

[paulclargo]

The real criminals here are the government and the oil companies. They are the "oil gangs" not the local people. Their lives are impoverished and their land is polluted. Fuck the law. Fight on

[Psycatalyst]

Nigga stole mah oil

[Antoshik81]

The truth of the matter is that Nigerian federal government (which is mostly run by muslims) sucks dry the christian south of their oil, ruining peoples habitat without ever investing their massive revenues into the communities they owe those profits to. So there is a bigger underlying problem that forces people to risk their lives by engaging in this risky business of oil funneling, that we need to focus here on. Everything else is largely a side effect of the aforementioned issue.

[Type59]

They need to spend more money on military and incease security.

[blunt1984]

Maybe if the government actually SHARED some of the oil wealth with the people of the Niger delta, they wouldn't get their pipelines messed with!

[bramrati]

George W. Bush is destined to burn in the fires of HELL

[eckyboyo]

This is typical of most countries with oil. They have huge peasant numbers and a few at the top who become very rich. That oil belongs to all of the people not just the fat cats!

[takerdust]

BOOOOOSh's fault

[renegadekav]

everythings bushs fault isn't it? moron.

[takerdust]

I was trying to be sarcastic and witty, since everyone loves to blame Bush.

LOL, some even Up voted my comment.

[cradle2light]

30000 to 50000 barrels is SMALL by world standard BUT news like this IS BIG to Oil Companies AND Speculators....

[Boborasshanti]

how can the country loose 350 barrels a day when the diverted oil is used by nigerians them selves. if the government met the energy needs of their people, then the local citizens would not be "stealing" their own oil. how can pipelines criss cross the delta, yet the delta is so impoverished? i say, let the attacks on pipelines continue until the nigerian government respond th the needs of their citizens and stop responding to the almighty dollar and the needs of other nations.

[fmm3]

Government corruption steals more oil and more money than these poor people.

[dowling1981]

What about the floral growth?

[PauloGVieira]

Yes but how many billions of dollars in the oil industry is being lost because of government corruption?

This is Nigerian oil and the proceeds are not being spent on Nigeria.

[chris7777777777777]

Not who wants cocaine, but who wants oil! lol Ive heard it all now.

[flyyspit]

EXACTLY....extringele....EXACT­LY..spot on

would have been beneath your comment but grrrr...

gets to be a joke most times...

[kylecow2005]

lol

[extringele]

Good job AlJazeera, what makes you unique is how you have ethnic Africans reporting on Africa unlike persay BBC who have Caucasians who don't know whats going on because they don't understand the way of life and what the people feel where they are reporting. I think this is one of the causes of their biased reporting.