……. and they call them Niger Delta Militants? Photo’s that ‘support’ the Militants.
The fact that Nigeria is the sixth largest crude oil producer in the world in no news, the fact that circa 90% of this oil comes from the Niger Delta region is equally no news, the fact that over $400 Billion US Dollars of crude oil revenue has been embezzled to date by the likes of Babangida, Abacha and Obasanjo is common knowledge.
The fact that the Niger Delta region that produces this revenue is one of the poorest regions in the world may be news especially to Nigerians, majority of whom, outside the Niger Delta do not know the situation on the ground. The Niger Deltans out of frustration have resolved to control their own resources (and rightly so) and they are called militants. If demanding what is rightly yours makes you a militant, then should it not be so? Imagine if this crude oil was in Northern Nigeria, will ‘Derivation’ (Resource Control) not be a major factor in revenue sharing in Nigeria.
I have decided, wherever possible, to pictorially present my opinions on the Nigerian situation, for a picture represents a thousand words, it graphically brings home to readers the real situation, as it is, on the ground. The real deal.
Dear readers below are pictorial representation of the situation in Niger Delta today (Courtesy of BBC Online and www.unitedijawstates.com), the goose that lay the Nigerian golden eggs that are squandered hundreds of miles away from where the goose lays. This is what the Niger Deltans are fighting against and in demanding’ rightly’ for what is rightly theirs, they are called ‘militants’.
For the ‘militants’, the statements below say it all:
"No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow" ... Alice Walker
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure….than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”
…… Theodore Roosevelt
And to the reprobates that run Nigeria, my advice is to give the Niger Deltans what belongs to them and that is resource control.
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Polluted Farm Land in Bayelsa State |
Polluted Stream in Ijaw Land |
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Gas Flaring in Niger Delta – polluting the source of drinking water |
Polluted Farm Land in Ijaw Land |
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Another Polluted Environment – Niger Delta |
Devastated Country Side – Ijaw Land |
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Environmental Devastation – Niger Delta |
Another Environmental Devastation – Bayelsa State |
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Unattended Crude Oil Spillage – Ijaw Land |
Unattended Fire in an Oil Pipe Line – Niger Delta |
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| Playing Field – Ijaw Land |
Leaking Oil Head - Ogoniland |
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| Exposed Water Pipes – Port Harcourt |
Uninterrupted Flames – Rumuekpe, Rivers State |
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| Rusted Pipeline (waiting to explode) – Rivers State |
Polluted Farm Land – Rukpokwu, Rivers State |
How the Oil Money is Spent
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Residential Village - Bayelsa State |
National Stadium Abuja |
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Aerial View – National Stadium Abuja |
Main Bowl – National Stadium Abuja |
Odenigbo Chidi Anyaeche
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