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PRESIDENT Umaru Yar Ardua has offered amnesty, within a six-month time frame to the so-called militants of the Niger Delta. Various reactions have trailed the announcement. Many have hailed it as a welcome move towards settling the beef in the Niger delta that has led to insurrection.

Many see it as a futile gesture borne from a misreading of the situation. Other people see it as an elaborate game of wits in which the federal government has made an opening gambit.

Many others see a cynical twist in the president’s gesture. The poet and playwright, and Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka in fact, in the swell of the early reactions, accuses the Nigerian authorities who have proffered this amnesty of “amnesia,” meaning, they had quite conveniently forgotten to read the minutes of our last meeting in 1967, with the last civil war, whose end-game politics has led in more than a remote way, to the current situation.

At the core of that war was the federalism question and its locations of the power of the state and of the federating units of the union to act, each with its sovereign will. Within the meaning of that sovereign will was also the rights of the federating units to self-determination, including the rights to economic determinism, or what many now call “resource control.”

The unresolved questions of 1967 now haunt us. Even the other poet and playwright, Johnson Pepper-Clark, an Ijaw who stood solidly on the federal side of the old conflict seems now to have reversed himself and taken a thoroughly regionalist position regarding the rights of peoples to self determination and economic justice. In an essay

“Armistice First in the Niger Delta,” J.P. Clark says: “Since no Nigerian administration has ever cared, militants in the Niger Delta, as a matter of history, are only carrying on the struggle begun in the last century by political leaders like Dappa Biriye, Ernest Ikoli and Udo Udoma to win equal rights for their people in our unequal federation where majorities proudly accommodate themselves, while containing the minorities, handed over to them, without consent or consultation, by a retreating colonial power.

They are following the example of Adaka Boro, Amangala and Nyananyo who died in the Civil War, fighting to perfect the union. It is the spirit of their own Kaiama declaration inspiring them to seek justice for their own people in a land where all people should be free and equal to draw on their individual resources, while respecting the rights and claims of their neighbours. Regrettably, it has been government of the majority by the majority for the majority.”

The last statement of this excerpt, about majorities, is of course too worn out to be true. In any case, read between the lines, it is clear that J.P. Clark’s moral pillars of 1967 that saw the “federalist” and the fierce Nigerian nationalist in him seems in other words to have turned into pillars of salt seeing the increasing military devastation of Gbaramatu and other places in the Niger delta.

But let us for a moment look at the stock and quality of the olive branch, that is, the amnesty offered to the militants of the Niger delta by president Yar Ardua. It would seem that the president’s gesture amounts to a cynical use of rhetoric to douse an epic conflagration.

This is why Amnesty will not work: first, as the spokes persons of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), the core movement leading the insurrection in the Niger delta have consistently reminded the Federal Government, the movement has not asked for amnesty.

They do not demand it as pre-condition for settlement.
They do not seek the federal government’s indemnity to crime because, in their position, they are not criminals or bandits; they are a movement of resistance that challenges the current status of nation.

Negotiations for disarmament

They remain entrenched, and their demands are in fact clear: they will not go into any negotiations for disarmament until the federal government meets the core of their demands: the release of Mr. Henry Okah, the withdrawal of the federal army from the Niger delta, and of course, the restoration of the 50 per cent derivation principle which guarantees the rights of states to economic justice.

To press home its position, MEND has had to prove that it could act with enough force and freedom in spite of the military cordon in the Niger delta by willfully targeting and destroying the infrastructure of the multinational oil giants whom it sees as historically complicit with the Nigerian government in maintaining the unjust state of affairs.

In short, MEND’s demands seek plainly to revisit the national question, and this is the true olive branch that would provide grounds for disarmament. Let us, of course, not overlook the subtle threat behind the federal government’s offer of amnesty and the six-month window for disarmament.

Presumably, beyond the six-month, and failing which the militants are unable to heed the imperatives from what it considers its magnanimity, there would following a more devastating military incursion and operation in the Niger delta. The use of force will certainly be futile.

Besides, the Niger delta is a tough terrain to operate. Its phalanx of creeks is a natural coverage for the kind of guerrilla activity which the Niger delta militia or resistance has fully adopted. If anything, they have learnt one or two things from the mistakes of Biafra .

But more importantly, they are in vast protective zones of action, a fact which was obvious to the Americans in 1975.

Una no dey wonder why GOD go allow oyinbo man to enslave him own creation and the plenty suffering him no do anything now him dey see as nigerians dey suffer and he dey allow all these wankers called leaders to ensalve us again this wan pass slave trade.
You dey see but you no fit do anything na watine sef.

We ready to tire anything brother we don sign if you know watine to sign mean blood for blood
Last last dem go send there aboki brothers come forget say these men get family as well we go find them reach house fall every like tree for forest.
This wan pass operation piper alpha.
Like when you put smoke where you have bees what do you think will happen.
You ne ver hear i wan die i dey find die, watine dey the life oko belief i dey flex so no think say na alarmist dey yarn.
Watine sef una no dey think am we get every but we be apologist na so so apology we go dey give and receive.
F**k the system.
Na we be the system so why we dey fear to take am down.
This people need something very strong to change there perspective or else in the next 100yrs we will still be saying the same things.
All ready here we are having apologist and appeasers.
We already know those that will sell out by the remarks and comments and by there tribe and gender.
No be crowd fight make dem come man we like make dem come kill us.
As dem dey cut grass na so we go take cut them reach there mama house.
We go make sure say there kids don't grow no be god there children dey abroad dey school and they get house so use ur mind.
We will take it to dem they have the military power but we have the brain we will hurt them were it hurts most an eye for an eye.
You kill my own i go kill your own.
You do me i do you god no go vex.
Una no dey wonder say GOD dey there him no dey see all this things wey dey happen him no get mercy for all this suffering.

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Although I am not important enough for own view points to count, I had stated right from the first day that the amnesty was announced that unless the question of resource control is addressed, the amnesty will not make any impact and that sooner or later the government will find some excuses to revoke the amnesty and put whoever they could lay their hands on in prison, tried and hurriedly executed them as they did to Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight of his Ogoni compatriots.
Any one who is closer to the president should advise him to address the resource control issue first before trying to disarm and integrate the militants. The government is reluctant to address the resource control issue first because they lack the skill to mobilize and raise revenue from other sources to fill the 37% revenue gap the a 50% derivation will create. Why can’t the government engage experts to find ways of filling the government revenue gap and grant the 50% derivation on which the 1960 independent constitution was based to solve the problem once and for all?

PRESIDENT Umaru Yar Ardua has offered amnesty, within a six-month time frame to the so-called militants of the Niger Delta. Various reactions have trailed the announcement. Many have hailed it as a welcome move towards settling the beef in the Niger delta that has led to insurrection.

Many see it as a futile gesture borne from a misreading of the situation. Other people see it as an elaborate game of wits in which the federal government has made an opening gambit.

Many others see a cynical twist in the president’s gesture. The poet and playwright, and Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka in fact, in the swell of the early reactions, accuses the Nigerian authorities who have proffered this amnesty of “amnesia,” meaning, they had quite conveniently forgotten to read the minutes of our last meeting in 1967, with the last civil war, whose end-game politics has led in more than a remote way, to the current situation.

At the core of that war was the federalism question and its locations of the power of the state and of the federating units of the union to act, each with its sovereign will. Within the meaning of that sovereign will was also the rights of the federating units to self-determination, including the rights to economic determinism, or what many now call “resource control.”

The unresolved questions of 1967 now haunt us. Even the other poet and playwright, Johnson Pepper-Clark, an Ijaw who stood solidly on the federal side of the old conflict seems now to have reversed himself and taken a thoroughly regionalist position regarding the rights of peoples to self determination and economic justice. In an essay

“Armistice First in the Niger Delta,” J.P. Clark says: “Since no Nigerian administration has ever cared, militants in the Niger Delta, as a matter of history, are only carrying on the struggle begun in the last century by political leaders like Dappa Biriye, Ernest Ikoli and Udo Udoma to win equal rights for their people in our unequal federation where majorities proudly accommodate themselves, while containing the minorities, handed over to them, without consent or consultation, by a retreating colonial power.

They are following the example of Adaka Boro, Amangala and Nyananyo who died in the Civil War, fighting to perfect the union. It is the spirit of their own Kaiama declaration inspiring them to seek justice for their own people in a land where all people should be free and equal to draw on their individual resources, while respecting the rights and claims of their neighbours. Regrettably, it has been government of the majority by the majority for the majority.”

The last statement of this excerpt, about majorities, is of course too worn out to be true. In any case, read between the lines, it is clear that J.P. Clark’s moral pillars of 1967 that saw the “federalist” and the fierce Nigerian nationalist in him seems in other words to have turned into pillars of salt seeing the increasing military devastation of Gbaramatu and other places in the Niger delta.

But let us for a moment look at the stock and quality of the olive branch, that is, the amnesty offered to the militants of the Niger delta by president Yar Ardua. It would seem that the president’s gesture amounts to a cynical use of rhetoric to douse an epic conflagration.

This is why Amnesty will not work: first, as the spokes persons of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), the core movement leading the insurrection in the Niger delta have consistently reminded the Federal Government, the movement has not asked for amnesty.

They do not demand it as pre-condition for settlement.
They do not seek the federal government’s indemnity to crime because, in their position, they are not criminals or bandits; they are a movement of resistance that challenges the current status of nation.

Negotiations for disarmament

They remain entrenched, and their demands are in fact clear: they will not go into any negotiations for disarmament until the federal government meets the core of their demands: the release of Mr. Henry Okah, the withdrawal of the federal army from the Niger delta, and of course, the restoration of the 50 per cent derivation principle which guarantees the rights of states to economic justice.

To press home its position, MEND has had to prove that it could act with enough force and freedom in spite of the military cordon in the Niger delta by willfully targeting and destroying the infrastructure of the multinational oil giants whom it sees as historically complicit with the Nigerian government in maintaining the unjust state of affairs.

In short, MEND’s demands seek plainly to revisit the national question, and this is the true olive branch that would provide grounds for disarmament. Let us, of course, not overlook the subtle threat behind the federal government’s offer of amnesty and the six-month window for disarmament.

Presumably, beyond the six-month, and failing which the militants are unable to heed the imperatives from what it considers its magnanimity, there would following a more devastating military incursion and operation in the Niger delta. The use of force will certainly be futile.

Besides, the Niger delta is a tough terrain to operate. Its phalanx of creeks is a natural coverage for the kind of guerrilla activity which the Niger delta militia or resistance has fully adopted. If anything, they have learnt one or two things from the mistakes of Biafra .

But more importantly, they are in vast protective zones of action, a fact which was obvious to the Americans in 1975.

FL Gators wtf is wrong with ur brain did you leave it in loo or wat why u so so so stupid u think you can just wake one morning and insult ur father.
You are a blood disgrace to nigeria and ur full self people like you are the once destroying these country.
You rather suffer than to stand for your right you come here to open your dirty smelling mouth.
Don't you have kids or better things to do than come here to type rubbish if you did not like what i have post must you respond.
You are a VIN do u know what that means you are a vagabond in nairaland.
Bloody slowpoke you are a blood fool in short you are more than a fool you are a Arrow.
Bloody gay
IF YOU WANT WAR I WILL I GIVE TO YOU FL Gators
WE CAN START IT RIGHT NOW self-servicer

na only dis 2 tribes don rule nija na watine dem don do to show 4 the years way dem do rule nothing dem be total failure.

na mouth all of una get show ursef do something

Bush no rig election for florida na today na how to solve the situation be the matter now.

If war brake out watine wan happen no be to kpia sho u dey fear to die c dis men we don sign suffering and smiling abi u prefare u to remain as you dey suffer or to dey make mouth.

oko make d guy c wather i go hammer make i become presido make i give plenty gals belle

Yea dem don shot my yansh ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Na aboki

Gbosa gbosa wey dem i don arrange my gbosa ready wey i go take fire dem plus my asawana juju dia head no correct.

What is the sum of all fears for a nigerian i no wan die my mama dey for house dat babe wey i wan dey bonk shai i no wan die make i leave am nigeria go change god go do am.
mugu people e be like say dem pay does pastors to brain wash majority of nigerians.

You people are brain dead what is wrong with it in Nigeria do we have niggers NO so wtf is wrong abi una wan statisfy una yeye master.
Nigger dey yankee so wantine consign agbero with overload.
Make una take time o  
Una dey look for something wey no dey there

You people are brain dead what is wrong with it in Nigeria do we have niggers NO so wtf is wrong abi una wan statisfy una yeye master.

Na watine you wan c for here war 
You get mind o

Yoruba man wey never chop amala with ewedu finish nai wan fight u nover see natin yet becomerich i like ur zeal sha u try.

It is the people in nigeria that have failed lilly livered bastards

The cause of all the problems in this world is because of women man wants to impress the chicks where the best baffs drink the best champs feel the best chick that is why there is always war.
Na watine d wife don tell the husband for bed for night oko if you no do am no show.

Na only feedeefee be party for Nigeria other parties no dey.
Respect feedeefee dem dey campaign sha no be lie.
Atiku campaign no
Buhari campaign no
The othe morons campaign no
So how you wan take win election wey you no campaign abi because you dey assume you get clean record so you must win hum well you know what they say assumption is the mother of all F**k ups.
To be presido you must be bad guy make una leave story.
Move on
Yar dull na god put am there abi una don forget watine dey bible say na god dey put man where him surpose dey no be your power.

Did obansajo put gun on your head that you must vote for Yar dull no,so do not complain how many of you voted in the last election, sitting in your small mansion shouting.
Fire burn yah mouth all of you.
Come out and vote and lets see how they will rig.
But instead my broda sidon for house dey wait make election finish make im begin to dey shout maga people na only shout una sabi.

Let us plan to colonise Britain   me am doing my own part of colonizing.

When are you people going to live Nigeria i hope you take all the abokis with you plus there cattles.

Nigerians think they are happy stupid animals in human skin suffering and smiling.
Nigeria is a country filled with vampires that will suck your blood they are not happy people.
Witch,wizards,demons ogbanje people.
Nigerians need deliverance from the madness the oyinbo man gave them.
Nigerians are not happy they are dieing in silence.
Stupid is understatement slowpoke is the word mumu malu ewu epa this is nigeria.

Who is the animal that started this trend Can Nigeria Afford an Igbo President what crap and brainless topic.
Any tribe can produce a president.
The hausas and the yorubas have done it so what is wrong if an igbo man becomes president but i hope not from FeDfe.
We have a common enemy

why are you guys fighting among yourselves when we all know the enemy is out there laughing at you people fighting among yourselves.
Wise up