Before I start I have a few questions for you supporters. .
1. Where
did the Niger Delta Struggle go to in the last 6 years?
2. Why
is there so much vandalization
of oil facilities off late?
3. Is it
true you don't want Tompolo
arrested?
4. Is the allegations
leveled on Tompolo true' If no, why has he not honoured
the invitation and if yes, then
the so called development
money you are looking for
was outrightly swallowed by
him. .
Thank you, permit me to roll in my mind on the issue
on ground. . Before the
emergence of Goodluck Ebele
Jonathan as president, the
likes of Ankio Briggs, Asari
Dokubo, OpunaboNkot 'Tariah, Ledum Metee, Edwin Clark etc
were always on Television
telling Nigerians and the
world how the South-South
has been marginalized by the
North and the West despiteher oil. . By divine and
metaphysical error, Goodluck
Jonathan from the South-
South, the presumed Nazareth
of Nigeria became the
president of Nigeria after President Umaru Yaradua's
death in 2009.His emergence
came as a joyous daybreak to
end our age- long
marginalization . . There was a
beacon light of hope for my region. Immediately, the
Niger Delta struggle stumbled
and died or gone Comatose. .
The Niger Delta activists
mentioned above became
Jonathan's spokespersons and abandoned the struggle. In
2011, Nigerians, Hausa,Yoruba,
Igbo, Christians and Muslims
voted massively for Jonathan.
Thereafter, administrative
thieves were appointed Ministers and head of federal
institutions,- Convicted
criminals received presidential
pardon.- Militants were given
contracts running into billions
of Naira.- Impunity and corruption became the norm. .
All these and many more
replaced the Niger Delta
struggle for resource control.
The need for constant
electricity, portable water, good health facilities, good
road network, massive
manpower development etc
went into oblivion. Even the
recent Ogoni UNEP report that
would have changed the live of an average Ogoni man was
not implemented by their
regional brother - president.
Recall that NDDC was
established by Olusegun
Obasanjo a Yoruba man. Ministry of Niger and
Amnesty Office was
established by Late,President
Umaru Musa Yaradua, a
Northerner. Regrettably, this
two federal agencies including NIMASA and NNPC became
conduit pipes for Jonathan's
Wife, Nyesom Wike, Deziani
Allison, Godswill Apkabio and
many cronies of Jonathan to
Molest and siphon funds meant for the development of
the Niger Delta region. .
Credibility died. Equity died.
Competence died. Due process
died. Conscience died. . And
the Niger Delta struggle died in their son's hand. . Former
Governor Rotimi Amaechi,
knowing that the South -
South may not have the
opportunity of Producing the
President of Nigeria again cried out and they called him a
betrayer. They fought him
with federal might and
pushed him out of PDP, a
replicate of what Joseph's
brothers did when they sold him to the Ishmelites. . But
today Amaechi is laughing
because they pushed him to
stardom. . Even the East/
West road that was awarded
by former President Obasanjo and inherited by Yaradua and
later Jonathan is still not
completed. . Bayelsa State
today does not have an
airport or a strong federal
government institution that can generate employment
opportunities for Bayelsa
youths. Few months to the
Presidential election, Ankio
Briggs, Asari Dokubo, Edwin
Clark, Nyesom Wike, Tompolo Government, Kingsley Kuku,
etc awaken the Niger Delta
struggle. . What a shame,
What an irony' . For five years
nobody heard them because
they were swimming and sleeping on money. When
Goodluck Ebele Jonathan
eventually contested and lost
the 2015 Presidential election
to Gen. Muhammadu Buhari of
the APC,the House of Assembly of all South-South
states became a compensation
point for militants ( Former
and Active).Everything was
done with the police and INEC
to ensure that cronies of Jonathan and his wife were
declared winners of the
governorship and House of
Assembly elections in the
South-South especially Rivers
State and Bayelsa. . And if Jonathan had won the last
election and ruled for another
ten years, there won't be any
hope for the actualization of
the Niger Delta Struggle. . Go
to Oloibiri and other villages in Ijaw land and see the level of
environmental degradation
yet their son was president of
Nigeria for six years. . People
are living a stone-age life over
there, no land to build a house, no pipe burn water, no
hospital, no school and no
road yet some people will seat
in Abuja and Portharcourt
collecting billions of Naira as
Champions of the Niger Delta struggle. . I read some few
days ago that the President
has directed the release of the
funds meant for the clean up
of Ogoni Land. What their
own son was reluctant to implement after spending a
whole six years in office, but
here is a man in less than 1
year set up a committee to
look into the delay and now
they are ripe to implement. . Who is fooling who? Are they
fighting for the cause of Niger
Delta or their pockets? . When
you bomb an oil installation,
you put your own people at
risk health wise. . Your waters in the village is
contaminated . You reduce the
federal allocation to the state .
You reduce power supply
capacity. . Buhari does not
stay in your village, he does not need water to drink from
your village, the power
supply any where he is will
not blink a second even if you
decide to bomb your whole
village. This is a compendium og foolishness. . The people
who will suffer from the
mental selfish exercise were
not empowered the last 6
years, those who benefited
from the loots have squandered the loots on
women, drinks and landed
property if not why has
Tompolo even after his bank
account was frozen and some
of his property sealed by the federal government, he still
choose to be in hiding. . Niger
Deltans Be Wise! . What Good
luck could not give to them in
the last 6 years, they now
want Buhari to give them in 1 year, madness indeed
