NIGER DELTA REGION: USING MEDIATION AND NEGOTIATION TIME TO ACCUMULATE ARMS/AMMUNITIONS
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NIGER DELTA REGION: USING MEDIATION AND NEGOTIATION TIME TO ACCUMULATE
ARMS/AMMUNITIONS
Government of Nigeria has used mediation and negotiation timeframe to
accumulate arms and ammunition to
carry out full war in the Niger Delta. Oil/gas and other workers must
vacate the region. This time Nigerian government is going to suffer
full blow and disaster. It is uncertain whether Nigeria will remain
ONE. The people
of this region have suffered enough and now enough is enough.
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NIGERIA: NIGER DELTA REGION CIVIL LIBERTIES FIGHTERS RESUME PROCESS TO
SELF-DETERMINATION AND DEFENSE OF HOMELAND - INT. NGOs
November 23, 2009
Two articles poseted below come before Publishers' article but
microscopically circulated locally and internationally.
Publishers have advised government of Nigeria and the Civil Liberties
Fighters on path to access to peace and stability of the focus region
and Nigeria in general but the government of Nigeria (president,
politicians, lawmakers, and other leaders) have foreign god fathers/
mothers that desire poverty of Nigerians/Nigeria and wealth of their
various foreign countries and allies excluding Nigeria and people of
Nigeria. See http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=nigeria+civil+liberties+fighters&btn
G=Google+Search&aq=0p&oq=NIGERIA%3A+CIVIL&aqi=g-p1g9
Return to the battlefield is government of Nigeria's outright advise
to the people of the Niger Delta Region to save themselves because
there is no government or standing authority in Nigeria to create
better life for them and protect their homeland/region other than the
CIVIL LIBERTIES FIGHTERS. No food, water, housing, job, etc. Foreign
criminals and their domestic errand runners come and go with loots,
oil and other resources without authority to stop them and leave the
people of this region and Nigeria in general dying slowly without
mercy.
Election is underway and all corrupt structures are relocating to
return these criminals to power. Very shocking this time that
Nigerians inside and outside Nigeria are regrouping secretly and have
decided to say NO and they have agreed to take rice, money and other
charitable arms which these criminals will give to them and thereafter
vote against them. This plan worked in the US election 2008 which
brought Obama to power; Nigeria election 1993 which made win for Chief
MKO Abiola; Iran Election 2009 because in Iran west and its allies
spent
several million pounds to prepare ceiling hope to reverse the
democratic process in Iran by the selfish desire of the west to remove
the incumbent to empower Israel in the entire region. See
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=+NIGERIA%3A+CAUSE+OF+ELECTION+FRAUD+
AND+LACK+OF+GENUINE+DEMOCRACY&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=&aqi=
The world is alarmed in the stained circumstance that Nigerian
authority and its allies have under-rated surrendered fighters and
pushed them to edge and think that Nigerians are like the people of
the west and related peoples that are silenced and placed in the
cooler because of cold, lack of housing under bitter cold, credit and
other means of livelihood made jailhouse and use these multiple jails
to promise and fail without contra-action from the ruled.
During Publishers' appraisal trip to Nigeria, they found that less
than 100 freedom fighters and fewer than 57 pieces of arms and
ammunitions were delivered to government authority. Majority of the
people, arms and ammunitions were brought from the military arms/
ammunitions depot, police station and homeless/unemployed Nigerians
were paraded to deceive Nigerians, world and with late hope to lure
other fighters to surrender.
To make peace in the region, Publishers advised the freedom fighters
not to give up fight and arms including amnesty until the seriousness
of the government of Nigeria is clear and visible. Publishers maintain
the recommendations located at http://www.phillyimc.org/en/node/69995;
http://groups.google.pt/group/google.public.support.general/browse_thread/thread/06d3993c8bd4ab8d
Few fighters mentioned above that turned in their weapon met
disappointment because they are not the major stake holder of the
struggle inside and outside the Niger Delta Region. How is possible
for the president, politicians, lawmakers, and other leaders and their
so called mediators ignore the major stake holders, MEND and others
and dream of using minor holders to broker peace.
Asia, Africa, Europe, America and Americas, Australia, etc think round
and round along justification to get peace via chameleon tactic and
force means. The new government in America can not make foreign peace
because of the appointment of Hilary Clinton as head of US state
department with the theory of divide and rule or night/day deplomacy.
See Nigeria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Christian/Moslem, Congo,
Somalia, etc. She has increased the cruelties against the Ofumes and
other citizens of the NIGER DELTA. See
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=ofume+v.+george+w.+bush+et+als+%28the+supreme+court+of+the+united+states%29.&aq=0p&oq=ofume&aqi=g-p3g
m1;http://www.google.com/
searchhl=en&ei=0PsKS7PXF9KWlAfEtuStDA&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&ved=0CAYQBSgA&q=ofume
+v.+george+w.+bush+et+al%27s(the+supreme+court+of+the+united+
states).&spell=1;http://www.phillyimc.org/en/event/ice-usa-deportation-
one-child-seven-children-against-order-judge-thomas-ragno-and-united-
natio;http://groups.google.com/group/soc.org.nonprofit/browse_ thread/
thread/4b309eb340ab5a23#
Researched/Investigated/Authored by:
Phillip Ofume, Ph.D.
Chair, National & International Policy Research Council; Head, Law
Reform and Litigation and Security Policy Council; Candidate in Exile
- Nigeria's Presidential Election 2011; National Chair, Canadian
Sociology and Anthropology Association -Anti-Racism Committee (p)
.
Godson Etiebet, Ph.D.
Researcher, (Policy/Good Government) National and International
Policy Research Council Coordinator, Europe Section, Switzerland
Cynthia H. Taylor, Ph.D./Alh. (Dr.) Farruk Mohammad
Strategic Development Researchers - International Policy Research
Council, Middle East Project
Tan Ochollu, D.Lit.
Principal Researcher, (Strategic Development) National and
International Policy Research Council Director of Asia Project
Reid MacDonald, Ph.D.
Coordinator, North America Section
Kris Kifindi Bunkheti, Ph.D. - Sept 2007 - present continued to be
detained/imprisoned by the PM of Canada Stephen Harper
Researcher (Language/Culture), National and International Policy
Research Council York University (Department of History) Toronto,
Ontario Canada (p)
Jerome Tesfai, D. Min/Div
Principal Researcher, Policy and Practice in Government and Foreign
Interveners - Africa Project
Francois Bourgeois/Pierre Bushel
International Human Rights Watch and Democracy - St. Etienne, France
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AFRICAN CANADIAN HUMAN RIGHTS ASSOCIATION (ACHRA);
NETLINK INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM (NLICS);
INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR NIGERIAN PEOPLE'S LIBERATION AND
DEMOCRACY(ICN-PLD); OIL AND CHEMICAL WATCH INTERNATIONAL (OCWI);
AFRICAN CANADIAN IMMIGRANT SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION (ACISA);
INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT IN AFRIK (NIPAD).
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Sunday, November 22, 2009
Militants resume hostilities in Niger Delta
By Ofonime Umanah (Port Harcourt) and Harris Okon-Emannuel (Warri)
• We repelled attack on Chevron facility – JTF
. Surrender your arms, ex-militant leaders tell Okah
Following threats by repentant militants to resume violent attacks on
oil facilities in the Niger Delta, some militants attempted to blow up
a Chevron Nigeria Limited Flow Station located at Abiteye in Gbaramatu
Kingdom of Delta State at the weekend.
Spokesman for the JTF, Colonel Rabe Abubakar confirmed to Sunday
Independent that the militants targeted the Chevron Flow Station but
the attack was repelled by JTF troops stationed in the area.
“On November 18, 2009 at about 22:00 hours, some suspected repentant
militants, numbering about 12 in a speed boat, armed with weapons,
suspected to be on an attack mission on Abiteye flow station, were
sighted by JTF troops speeding towards Abiteye Flow Station owned by
Chevron Nigeria Limited in Gbaramatu Kingdom.”
Abubakar said the JTF troops attempted to stop the militants but they
sped off from the soldiers who gave them a hot chase.
“All attempts by the JTF troops to stop them proved abortive and they
were pursued with a Chevron-owned Logo Speed Boat stationed there,
while two Gunboats also followed. However, the militants fired at the
JTF troops during the pursuit, manoeuvered and escaped as JTF troops
returned fire. One of the speed boat operators sustained gun shot
wounds on the chest and is presently being treated at the Chevron
Intensive Care Unit while there were no casualties on the side of the
JTF,” Abubakar said.
This is the second time there has been armed attacks in the Niger
Delta since the acceptance of the Federal Government amnesty by
majority of the militant groups operating in that region.
Meanwhile, the crisis rocking the Movement for the Emancipation of the
Niger Delta (MEND) has deepened as former militant leaders have asked
Henry Okah to surrender his arms and ammunition if he is indeed their
leader, urging the Federal Government not to deal with him on their
behalf.
Besides, they have also rejected the Aaron Team, saying that Okah,
unilaterally assembled the team without inputs from other “generals.”
“We want Mr. President to know that if Mr. Henry Okah is our general
leader as he claimed to be, he should also surrender his arms as we
creek generals did, before he can identify himself a general. Mr.
Henry Okah is a paper general without a battalion.”
The Aaron Team Comprises prominent Nigerians such as Professor Wole
Soyinka, Vice Admiral Mike Akhigbe (rtd), among others.
Rising from an emergency meeting in Warri, weekend, the warlords, led
by John Togo, advised the Federal Government and other stakeholders
not to have anything to do with the Aaron Team if they want a lasting
peace to reign in the crisis-ridden region.
Although the MEND faction acknowledged the role played by Okah during
the struggle, it however decried that he side-stepped them as soon as
he came out of prison, describing him as an ingrate who junkets around
the globe selling arms.
They said: “We appreciate the fact that Mr. Henry Okah contributed his
role in our struggle as a business man with large supply of arms which
we used during the dark days in our operations with Federal troops in
the creek.
“That is why when he was arrested by Federal Government in far away
South Africa, we did all we could to secure his release from detention
by killing a lot of soldiers, destroying oil pipelines, including the
SPDC prime Bonga Oil field at 75 nautical miles from the shore. We
also lost a lot of our soldiers during our encounter with federal
troops in our various operations while he (Mr. Henry Okah) was in
detention.”
They said they would soon meet and pick some credible Nigerians who
will parley with the government on their behalf and nominated 14 ex-
militant leaders to hold the forte for the time being.
Some of those nominated include, Tom Polo, Boy Loaf, Tom Ateke, Farah
Dagogoh, John Togo, Shoot-At-Sight, Egberipapa , Ezekiel Akpasibe-
owei, Soboma George, Afrika, Ogobosh, Joshua Mackiver, Pastor Reuben
and Darekoro.
The ex-militants said that they accepted the amnesty just for the sake
of peace and not because they were war weary and reiterated their
commitment to the peace process.
“We leaders of ex-militant groups in Niger Delta on behalf of our foot
soldiers hereby declare once again that we are still committed to the
amnesty granted to us by President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua for peace and
rapid development of Niger Delta,” they stressed.
They also reaffirmed their respect and solidarity with Professor
Soyinka and other members of the Aaron Team, underlining that their
opposition to the initiative was borne out of Okah’s perceived
arrogance.
Their words: “That we sincerely regret and apologise on behalf of our
arrogant brother Mr. Henry Okah to all members of the Aaron Team for
what this might have caused their personality. We are particularly
apologetic to Noble Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka for what the
selfish and personal aggrandisement of Mr. Henry Okah had caused to
his personality.”
Attack on Uniport: Ex-militant leaders plead for forgiveness
Bolaji Ogundele, Port Harcourt
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Former militant leaders have come down hard on their former comrades
who carried out the recent violent protest on the campuses of the
University of Port Harcourt, as well as Aluu community, which hosts
the ex-militants rehabilitation camp.
Rising from an emergency meeting held in Port Harcourt on Friday
night, the former militant leaders, who expressed deep regrets for the
action of their ‘boys’, also expressed disappointment in the manner
the Federal Government handled the post-amnesty affairs.
The meeting, which had former head of the Icelanders, Soboma George;
former Commander of Ifoko camp, Prince Amaibi, General Egwu and Frank
Eze, in attendance, said the Federal Government had failed them in the
post-amnesty programme.
It would be recalled that the ex-militants camped for post-amnesty
programme at Aluu community in Ikwerre local government area of Rivers
|State went on rampage last week, unleashing mayhem on the campuses of
the University of Port Harcourt and their host community, Aluu.
In the pandemonium, which saw several female students of the
university raped, many students and lecturers were robbed of their
personal effects like laptops and others, while car owners suffered
heavy damage on their vehicles.
The rampaging ex-militants also visited shops and houses in Aluu
community, looting and damaging everything in sight.
Academic and other activities on the campuses of the institution had
since been suspended as all the four labour unions of the institution,
including the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), downed
tools to express their dissatisfaction about the development.
Speaking on the issues discussed by the ex-militant leaders, Prince
Amaibi, aka Bustar Rhyme, condemned the violent attack by the
repentant militants at the Aluu camp.