The United States(US) Senate is seeking an immediate cessation of the military offensive in Delta State, and the adoption of a creative political process in resolving the Niger Delta crisis.

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The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee in a statement by its chairman, Russ Feingold, deplored the killing of defenceless civilians in the area, asking President Barack Obama to intervene with a view to halting the military onslaught.


Displaced people struggling for food at the Refugees camp at ogbeh-Ijoh in Delta state.Photo: Joe Omafuaire
He spoke on a day the Joint Task Force, JTF, in the Nigerian Delta continued with its “cordon and search operation” against militants in the creeks of Delta State, attacking the Benikrukru community.

Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark asked President Umaru Yar’Adua to ignore the House of Representatives over its hardline position on the matter.

Expressing deep concern over the humanitarian crisis resulting from the military offensive the US Senate chairman called for “genuine peacemaking” that “will require not only legitimate political negotiations but a convincing case for transforming the illicit war economy into one of peace.”
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The Niger Delta Militants have really exposed the suffering of the common Nigerian to the world.

The world knows how we are being oppressed becos of their agitation.

The truth is that they are giving a lot of folks outside Niger Delta some hope.

Is this not the same United States supporting Pakistan to fight the militants in pakistan. Instead of providing the JTF with enough logistics to flush out the miscreants, they are asking them to leave the kidnappers and killers. I'm begining to suspect they have an interest in the activities of the militants. Maybe they benefit from the illegal bunkering by the so called militants and their shameless sponsors.

Abeg JTF don't listen to them. Smoke the militants out with their shameless god fathers. Yeye criminals

This is none of their business.

make them send us 2000 special commando troops to help end this matter quickly.

They should bail out their economy before pognozing into our business. Just imagine how tax payers money would be given to GM to squander.

Afghan and Pakistai civilians are killed daily by US missile strikes. They should clean oiut their house before getting in our business!

@Sunny_bobo Wonder shall never end.Who know if you are one of the looting child.

i find it hard to believe that the US, with substantial investments in the region(chevron, mobil etal) and its citizens at risk, is actually asking that the criminal cartel known as movement for the emnacipation of naira and dollar be handled with kid gloves

it is a shame that after the whites brutalized us we too are butalizing ourselves.
how i dislike the nation with great intensity.