[afrikanchuldren]

First and foremost, I want to wish you all a merry time this season.

I THINK I AM BACK TO THE VILL ONCE AGAIN. AFTER BASKING IN EXILE FOR OVER 36 MOONS…THE ADMIN KNOW WHAT AM TALKING ABOUT. HOWEVER….

IT’S NOT BEEN EASY FOR US. FOR THE REST OF YOU WHO HAVE FOLLOWED MY PROGRESS, YOU ALL KNOW WHEN I LOST MY TWIN BROTHER TO THE STRUGGLE IN THE NIGER CREEKS, WHICH I KNOW YOU ALL READ ABOUT. THE GOVERNMENT HERE DOES NOT CARE A HOOT IF WE SURVIVE HERE OR NOT. WHILE THEY ARE BUSY LEASING OIL BLOCKS WHICH RIGHTFULLY BELONGS TO THE COMMUNITIES, AND RAKING IN THE PROCEEDS INTO FOREIGN ACCOUNTS, WE HAVE WALLOWED IN ABJECT POVERTY FOR OVER FIVE DECADES.

NOW THERE IS A NEW WAY ABOUT IT. THE YOUTH FROM THESE COMMUNITIES HAVE RISEN, FOUND THEIR VOICE AND HAVE YELLED FOR AN AGE NOW. NOBODY CARED TO LISTEN. IF THEY LISTENED, THEY NEVER CARED TO ACT. THEY JUST MADE SILLY PROMISES…SILLY POLITICIANS. THE YOUTH, BUSTLING WITH CAGED ENERGY HAVE BEGAN A NEW APPROACH TO THE WHOLE THING WHICH IS NOW TERMED “CRISIS”.

NOW ENJOY SOME INSIDER CLIPS WHICH I WILL FURNISH THE VILL WITH FROM TIME TO TIME.

HOPE YOU DO NOT FIND THESE CLIPS ALARMING. BUT THE FACT REMAINS THAT VARIOUS YOUTH FACTIONS WHO AGR ENGAGED IN THE STRUGGLE FRO SURVIVAL HERE HAVE SOMEHOW ENGAGED / INVESTED OVER $35 MILLION IN ARMS;GRENADES, TORNADOS, AKS, SMGS, MATCHETES, DYNAMITES, ROCKET LAUNCHERS, ETC. ANY ARMS OF WAR YOU CAN THINK OF, WE BUY IT. WHAT DOES IT COST....BLOOD. ITS THE STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL.

SO TELL ME, IS THERE A WAY OUT OF THIS.

[Dis Guy]

THE GOVERNMENT HERE DOES NOT CARE A HOOT IF WE SURVIVE HERE OR NOT.

INVESTED OVER $35 MILLION IN ARMS;GRENADES, TORNADOS, AKS, SMGS, MATCHETES, DYNAMITES, ROCKET LAUNCHERS, ETC. ANY ARMS OF WAR YOU CAN THINK OF, WE BUY IT. WHAT DOES IT COST....BLOOD. ITS THE STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL.

why dont you invest in proper education for the people of the niger creeks instead of demanding money all the time, we all know that some of your brothers already collecting money-part if which is the $35m you use to buy arms- they live in opulence now, they travel the world and some come back for the 'struggle' when they run out of money, back to square one, hold some people to ransom waiting to get paid!! geta proper job n stop killing your own people!!

the thing is you kill your fellow country men to kidnap a white person- thats stupid!! if you are really making a statement kill these so called oppressors and let your country men who are drivers n security/gate men go

[afrikanchuldren]

Thanks For That Line...though The Issue Is That The Crisis Is Out Of Hand Now. Nobody Can Put A Stop To It Now

[FireStarter]

Originally Posted by Dis Guy

why dont you invest in proper education for the people of the niger creeks instead of demanding money all the time, we all know that some of your brothers already collecting money-part if which is the $35m you use to buy arms- they live in opulence now, they travel the world and some come back for the 'struggle' when they run out of money, back to square one, hold some people to ransom waiting to get paid!! geta proper job n stop killing your own people!!

the thing is you kill your fellow country men to kidnap a white person- thats stupid!! if you are really making a statement kill these so called oppressors and let your country men who are drivers n security/gate men go

Good post, Dis guy.



In addition, why not attack Shell Oil Company for a billion dollar compensation. Shell is at least, equally culpable for the degradation of life in the delta. I mean, if it is possible to organise 30 million dollars to procure arms for an armed insurrection against an entire nation, it should be easy to organise protests against Shell company all over Europe similar to the one organised by students to disrupt G8 summits. However, you see, the so-called rebels can’t because essentially they are in the payroll of companies such as Shell in whose interest it is if civil war deflect attention from their gross destruction of the Niger delta environment and at the same time create a lawless situation whereby the cheap procurement of resources such as oil is legible. This is what happens often in Africa.


It is fashionable to say lets stop blaming the west for all our problems unfortunately much as I would like to they are usual at the root of most thirdworld problems.


On a cynical note:

Don’t you just marvel how black people seem to love mobile phones and guns? And we didn’t event the dammed things.

Business gurus are always harping on about the “Business Hook” which is some original business idea that would rake in the cash. The bloke who thought, ‘hmmm, that’s an idea, primitive blacks, guns, African bush, (Ding!) Money!’ hasn’t stopped raking it in. I was just thinking that instead of allowing the usual motley crew of shady Syrians, Lebanese and Indian busyness people, CIA and western political meddlers in African affairs along with the ubiquitous arms dealers profit from African misery why don’t black diasporans get into the act themselves. Just think the 30 million dollars raised by those idiots in the African bush could be sitting in some black persons account instead of in some European persons account.

If we must wallow in abject misery, we should do it in style.

[afrikanchuldren]

THE THING IS THAT THE GOVT HERE WILL SUPRESS ANY FORM OF UPRISING OR CIVIL DEMONSTRATION. IF YOU MEANT TAKING LAWS INTO OUR HANDS TO MAKE SHELL PAY, THE GOVT WILL REACT COS THEY MAKE SO MUCH FROM SHELL.

IF YOU MEAN GOING TO COURT, THE PROCEEDINGS MIGHT DRAG FOR A LIFE TIME.

THE LAST REGIME OR CIVIL JUNTA, AS I PREFER TO CALL IT, WIPED OUT A WHOLE COMMUNITY DUE TO ISSUES THAT AROSE FROM THIS STRUGGLE.

THEY ROLLED TANKS AND ARMOURED VEHICLES AND SHELLED THE SMALL COMMUNITY FROM HILL TOP TILL IT WENT DOWN IN RUBBLES. THE YOUTH TOOK TO THE JUNGLE, LEAVING THE AGED TO DIE.

IN NIGERIA, ITS LAWLESSNESS. EVERYONE WANTS TO BE STUPID.

[afrikanchuldren]

THE LAST REGIME WAS SO INSENSITIVE TO THE PLIGHT OF THE STATE. VERY HYPOCRITICAL. VERY CORRUPT, AND YET IT FOUGHT CORRUPTION IN A MANNER NEVER DONE BEFOR HERE. THE MASTER MIND AND MANIPULATOR WAS NO OTHER THAN FORMER HEAD OF STATE, RTRD. GEN OLUSEGUN OBASANJO.

IT WAS UNDER HIS CIVIL JUNTA THAT THE WHOLE DELTA CRISIS CAVED IN. WE HATE THIS MAN.

HAVING GOOD KNOWLEDGE OF THE HARSH LIVING CONDITION IN THE CREEKS, THIS EVIL MAN PUT A DEAF EAR TO OUR PLIGHT AND ANNOUNCED THAT NIGERIA IS NOT A POOR NATION. THAT PEOPLE ARE RICH HERE.

[Judge J]

African leaders must challenge secret executions in Nigeria

African leaders should challenge the Nigerian government over its secret executions revealed in a report by Amnesty International, a human rights worker has said. Amnesty International revealed earlier this week that secret executions have been taking place in Nigeria’s prisons, despite recent assurances by the government that Nigeria has not executed “in years.”

The organisation uncovered evidence of at least seven executions in the last two years, but fears more may have taken place. All of the executions took place by hanging. All those executed were convicted in a Kano state court and relocated to prisons across the country, including Jos, Kaduna and Enugu. Their death warrants were all signed by the current Kano state governor, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau.

Nigerian born Olufemi Adefolaju who is involved in human rights advocacy told Black Britain: “It happens on a daily basis, often to people who perceived as being political enemies. People are suffering in silence. There is open intimidation and corruption just to keep the leader in power. Nigerians are very powerful because nobody seems to want to challenge them. There is systematic elimination of people who try to speak up to challenge the abuse and corruption.”

Erwin van der Borght, Director of Amnesty International’s Africa Programme said: “The Nigerian government has been misleading the world – and they must now come clean on their death penalty record, establish an immediate moratorium on all executions in the country, and fully investigate how something like this could have happened.”

The detailed cases uncovered by Amnesty International include: On 30 May 2006, Kenneth Ekhone and Auwalu Musa were executed by hanging in Kaduna Central Prison. They were tried and convicted by a Robbery and Firearms Tribunal, but did not have lawyers throughout the proceedings. They were also not given an opportunity to appeal against the judgements. Until his death, Auwalu Musa denied he had anything to do with the crime. On 15 June 2006, Salisu Babuga was transferred from Kaduna prison to Jos prison, where he was hanged. At least four men were hanged in Enugu prison in 2006.

Amnesty International also believes that at least one execution has taken place in Port Harcourt prison. Amnesty International is continuing to investigate in order to confirm the names of those executed and the dates of the executions. On November 15 2007, a Nigerian government representative at the UN spoke about the death penalty in Nigeria. He said, “punishment only comes after exhaustive legal and judicial processes, including recourse to the supreme court of the land”…”It is thus on record that we have not carried out any capital punishment in recent years in Nigeria.”

Erwin van der Borght said that there is no excuse for the Nigerian government misleading the international community about its human rights record. But Adefolaju said that Africans have a responsibility to hold the Nigerian government to account: “African leaders and Africans in the Diaspora must make a stand against the human rights abuses in Nigeria,” he said.


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[FireStarter]

Originally Posted by afrikanchuldren

THE THING IS THAT THE GOVT HERE WILL SUPRESS ANY FORM OF UPRISING OR CIVIL DEMONSTRATION.

This has not stopped so called rebels attacking and killing ordinary people going about their business in Port-Harcourt and other eastern places, has it ?.



Truth is, repeatedly, when black people are faced with external persecution they turn inwards and attack themselves. A policy that has resulted in wars throughout Africa; wars that don’t seem to solve the problem that brought them about in the first place. There is a saying; fools are people who never learn from their mistakes. The fact that African wars simply do the rounds in Africa - one minute in east Africa the next, in West Africa etc - and never result in meaningful progress, should inform the wise. In other words, we have been going about things the wrong way now is the time to try something different.

I would like to see Africans for once focusing their attacks on those external forces ultimately responsible for their problems. The rebels in Delta should copy the Arabs and focus their attacks on the West. Let us do something like that for once. If the rebels are truly serious about redressing environmental degradation in the delta and recouping lost revenue for the people they should take Shell to task. They can do this by focusing the world media on Shell’s degradation of the environment, its corrupt backhand payments to politicians – demand billions of dollars compensation for this and for the flaring of gas (It causes acid rain ). Any such campaign should involve protest in the west, stand ups, chaining of selves to embassy doors , and even more direct militancy if the situation calls for it.

These things should be done both in Nigeria and in the west. However, what the rebels have been doing so far, in my opinion, amounts to the industrialisation of armed robbery. Plainly put, I believe that what has happened is that because Nigerians are smart people even armed robbers who hitherto confined their activities to sticking up people for money, breaking and entry and occasional hijacking with fatalities, have now gone upmarket. They saw an opportunity to hijack the genuine concerns and suffering of the people of Delta for financial games. They thought why don’t we commit armed robbery and disguise the fact under some sort of pseudo freedom fighting thingamajig.

All over the West African coast, ships from Europe and Asia trawl for fish, depleting fish stocks, resulting in loss of livelihood of local African fishermen. The result of this is African migration to Europe via Spain and Italy reported often in the media. Any other people but Africans would take speedboats up to some of these trawlers and either board them forcibly or lob grenades into them to blow them up in order to recoup their fishing grounds. However, Africans do not take such understandable actions. In fact, let me make a prediction. The prediction is this: in future, those Africans that are loosing their livelihoods to foreign trawlers will mount some sot of militant actions against a tribal neighbour , or their own governments to blame them for not doing enough to stop foreign trawlers. Moreover, the weapons the exploited Africans will use to attack their neighbours and governments will most probably come form the countries who own the exploiting trawlers in the first place.

[Rockette]

@Firestarter,

It appears their mission is always to create problems with other Blacks period!