Jennifer663:
Okay?

Yeah.

Ijaw Republic or nothing else.

26th August 2022
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE IJAW NATIONAL CONGRESS (INC), PROF. BENJAMIN OKABA, DURING AN INTERFACE WITH SOME CONCERNED IJAW YOUTH GROUPS ON THE TRENDING OIL PIPLINE SURVELANCE CONTRACT, AT THE IJAW HOUSE, YENAGOA, ON FRIDAY 26 AUGUST, 2022.
Preamble
1. I would like to commence my remarks by thanking God Almighty for making this day possible. I, therefore, welcome you all great Ijaw sons and daughters to this august meeting.
2. Let’s remind ourselves that Ijaw land and indeed the Niger Delta has been the petroleum colony of federal oligarchs and their cohorts, whose only interest is to plunder our oil and gas resources for their personal aggrandizement while our people and communities wallow in abject poverty, want and underdevelopment.
3. The INC, as the apex umbrella organization for all Ijaws, has been working on several fronts of advocacy to not only foreground the socio-economic and environmental predicaments of our people, but also pursue the course for resource ownership, equity and justice by all legitimate means possible.
4. [b]To chart a robust path towards collectivizing Ijaw unity and common goal of the Ijaw struggle, the INC organized an All Ijaw Summit on December 4, 2021 where the Ijaw Question in the Nigerian State and the imperatives of our age-long quest for [b]self-determination were re-defined and re-calibrated with a clear roadmap underpinned by the instrumentality of the rule of law and international instruments.[/b][/b]
5. It is in view of the above concise preamble that I deem it necessary for us to interface and interact based on the brouhaha being generated by the recent reports of the renewal of oil pipeline surveillance contract to our brother, High Chief Government Ekpemupolo, popularly called Tompolo.
6. We understand that youths from some sections of the country, particularly the North, have risen in opposition to the job given to Tompolo by the Federal Government of Nigeria through the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited to curb pipeline vandalism, illegal bunkering activities and other forms of oil theft in the Niger Delta.
7. There were also reports that some of them, especially those operating under the auspices of Arewa Youth platforms, have staged a protest to the NNPC Towers in Abuja against the surveillance job to Tompolo. They were said to have also issued the Federal Government a seven-day ultimatum to revoke the contract. They also called for the resignation of the Hon. Minister of Petroleum (State) Hon. Timipre Sylva.
8. While the INC commends the leadership of Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) and other groups for adequately responding to the meddlesomeness of the northern interlopers, we would like to emphasize that this is a critical time in Ijaw nation and the Niger Delta in general.
9. Let me reiterate that the time we are in, as a matter of fact, calls for tact, unity, brotherliness, understanding and cooperation amongst ourselves as Ijaw people. It does not call for disunity and misunderstanding of any sorts among ourselves as Ijaw people.
10. It is very important for us to avoid internal squabbles. We must restrain ourselves from sowing the seeds of discord or promoting the “Pull Him Down syndrome”. We should rather resist external aggressors and invaders of Ijaw territory. We must be patriotic to the peace and unity of Ijaw nation. This, at all times, must not be lost on us all.
11. Recently, the INC has been buffeted with reports of brewing tensions among various Ijaw youth groups as a result of the pipeline surveillance contract. We frown at such divisive tendencies and propensities.
12. It must not be said that the token was targeted at creating an arena of infighting among Ijaw and Niger Delta people and distract them from focusing on our well-articulated goals and objectives.
13. There are oppressive and suppressive national issues that are confronting us a people. For instance, the National Water Resources Bill, designed to subjugate us further, which requires our collective resolve and determination “as to defeat this monstrous agenda”; in collaboration with other concerned ethnic groups that share contiguous peculiarities “with us”. We must take cognizance of this fact and other dangers to our existential realities as Ijaw people in a convoluted Nigerian polity.
14. Perhaps, it may interest some of you to note that one of the traps or snags contained in the Petroleum Industry Act, 2022, to which the INC has kicked against, is the clause that says that communities that fail to protect oil pipelines in their environment from vandalisation will not be entitled to their percentage profit. “It is instructive to bring this provision to bare, notwithstanding, we are not in tandem with the enactment.”
15. This interface, therefore, is primarily to enable us come together as a family to understand ourselves better and see the urgent need to forge a common front regarding the surveillance contract. There is no need for the threats and counter-threats being brandished from different quarters.
16. We must realize that the job should not be a source of internal conflict that would cause destabilization and insecurity in Ijaw land. Our people have already suffered enough invasions and harassments by federal troops over the years on account of our oil and gas wealth. As you all know, our people are mainly farmers and fishermen and women who depend on our rivers, swamps and creeks for survival.
17. We must love ourselves and not allow this “crumb” to tear us apart.
“I make bold to enjoin you resting on all that we cherish and believe that, all of you” have a responsibility to ensure that Ijaw land is not made a battlefield for the shedding of blood and destruction of property and values.
18. Permit me to stress again that the irreducible minimum target of the Ijaw Struggle is Self- Actualization: Resources Ownership, Resource Control and Resource Management. It is unfortunate and ridiculous, that Ijaw Brothers are threatening to kill themselves over Crumbs (not even by way of Ownership of Oil Wells) given to us to help the State siphon away our God-given wealth.
19. In furtherance of the cardinal objectives of the INC, I enjoin you to constitute yourself into a committee charged with the responsibility of interfacing with the different Ijaw groups with a view to harmonizing their individual interest and to ensure that in the process the Ijaw Unity and Agenda are not compromised.
Thanks and Godbless
Prof. Benjamin Okaba.

IDeyNL:


Allow him to hallucinate.

He creates threads, and respond to himself using other handles. If you see the malnourished person him the monickers, he will pity him.

Just leave him.

Continue lying to yourself.
Why is it that whenever you hear Ijaw Republic frustrations want kill una?

michelz:

OP, go and sit down, you're not Ijaw.
You come here every day to destabilize the South with the agenda given to you by your sponsors.

Continue lying to yourself.
I'm a member of the Ijaw Liberation Front ( ILF).
Ijaw Republic we believe in.

From our Ijaw Republic Hero General Ditari.



DIVIDED WE FALL, UNITED WE STAND.


Good day to the house.
The contract given to Tompolo has no doubt created different opposing reactions to it both from Ijaws and none Ijaws.



My worry is Fulani evil plans this time is to fully control Ijaw and they plan using Tompolo to navigate the whole creeks through easier knowledge of it.
They plan extending it into the water resources bill.



Some Ijaws say what if it was given to North, what would we have done, but the fact is that it won't be more than the marginalization we already receive from them as Ijaw and many parts of Ijaw strongholds of which are the creeks will still not be fully understood by them but since they are using one of us, I worry for the worst.
The tribe leaders need sit down probably in Ijaw house and discuss these issues.



The Eastern Ijaw groups that are angry, need know that Tompolo lobbied for that job.
You can go lobby for your own too instead of directly facing your own Ijaw man.
Where were you guys when Tompolo was lobbying for it until it was given to him.
Its not because I speak with strong words all these days mean I'm against Tompolo, I just don't trust Fulani.



The Ijaw leaders need sit down and discuss these issues.
The Arewa youths are also concerned about the money.
They take Trillions every month from our Ijaw land but give Tompolo only 4 Billion.



We must not allow Fulani divide us more.
If we are united, both Tompolo, Asari and Ateke each deserves oil wells that fetch them tens of billions monthly and not this pipeline security jobs that should have belong to their boys.



We need great sensitizations to help organize Ijaw.
If we are properly united, no group in the world can marginalize us.
Thankyou all, and may the creator continue to help us.


@General Ditari.

jerseyboy:
FIGHT INSTEAD FOR NIGER DELTA SELF-DETERMINATION.
IBOS HAVE PUT YOUR ANCESTRAL LAND INSIDE THEIR BIAFRAUUD MAP

Ijaws are for Ijaw Republic.
Nothing like Niger Delta.

True.

Reinaldo:
The whole of Nigeria is now fully Obidient

Thats a pure lie.

Psychokinetic:

If this is the mopping stick you expect to liberate you and your family from penury then I’m sorry for your ancestors cos generations nor even sure for you

Ijaw always lead when young.
Not old and weak like cownu.

abebi77572:
Chaii see how you are rubishing my tribe yoruba man.Chaii ijaws don suffer.These dirty thing that can't even be my houseboy.ijaw leader.Chaii see how you are rubishing my tribe yoruba man.Chaii ijaws don suffer.These dirty thing that can't even be my houseboy.ijaw leader....

He is higher than you and you are nobody in the Ijaw Nation.

And Igbo say they want to develop Nigeria when they can't develop their areas.

Bravetunde:

U use an innocent boys picture to put him into trouble,you are a wicked man.
If you are 100percent sure you are ija do a live video of yourself,your clan and community.
And when it is confirmed you are ijaw,I will start up a bussiness for you to be useful to yourself and the society

Speak your language you cannot.
Emini tibibirifa keme.

Oya answer my Ijaw.

riverbird:


Guy who ever the f*uck datiri is, him face no show and em shoe no shine....

Go ask Ijaw leaders about him that's if you are allowed to go that far because nobody knows u.


A true leader does not make noise.
A true leader acts.

riverbird:
Ahhh....you people want to kill yourselves even before getting ijaw republic (ogogoro republic), those days I nearly got shot by that ateke suicides in abuloma, thank God for orientation.

General Ditari helps balance their issues.

riverbird:
Ahhh....you people want to kill yourselves even before getting ijaw republic (ogogoro republic), those days I nearly got shot by that ateke suicides in abuloma, thank God for orientation.

Leave that mumu talk.
General Ditari always unite Ijaw.

Abdul05:
Money palava...


Nigerians in this disposition...

Its not money.
They planned bursting the pipelines because Tompolo want to end oil bunkering and they are refusing.

They have planned to bomb all pipelines.
They carried weapons of mass destruction saying if Sylva don't change it, they will kill each other even when we are all Ijaws.
Because Its not only Tompolo areas that produce oil.
Other Ijaw areas are there.


Its not money.
They planned bursting the pipelines because Tompolo want to end oil bunkering and they are refusing.

General Ditari of Ijaw Republic that is a young guy is the one organizing these grown ups all the time.
They won't advice themselves.


Saying, Kalabari, Okrika, Andoni Ijaws and Tompolo Gbaramatu and the rests will kill each other because they didn't discuss with them and this thing can't happen.
Even in the video they were standing around pipeline say they will bomb it.
I'm trying to upload the video but Im having difficulties.

Stone03:



Very poor analysis

Continue lying to yourself.

drlateef:




This is a fair assessment, as opposed to the drunken prediction of Obituary zombies who see a mirage and call it a bridge. Their eyes will soon clear. Even Obi does not know that he is working for Tinubu. He will be shocked to his marrow will the chips are down. Politics is a game for the masters, not for a trader like Obi.

Exactly.

CaptainAyub:

So Ijaw ppl no get sense,sotey na Asari Dokubo and other gun carrying criminals de decide for every single person?

Keep quiet..how about canibal Nnamdi Kanu that Igbo worship

Bravetunde:
When they lodge all these stewpid afonjas Muslims,and pay them peanut you come online to type nonsense.
Once Peter obi is declared winner,come out to talk trash or even type these sort of thing,and see if you won't be hannged and dealth with.
Pigg

Declared winner on Nairaland shey?

Kennedyli:

Point out where I lied. You are obviously not a Niger Deltan if you think Peter Obi will lose Bayelsa or Rivers.

I'm fully Ijaw from Bayelsa.
Even Peter Obi Governor ask his people to vote Apga Presidential Candidate of which is not Peter Obi.


Douye Diri ask us to vote Atiku that is of the PDP.

Paulheyman:
Nairaland ijaw

Nairaland Igbo.

Una eyes will still clear.

Labour Party controls no state.

ObosiUkwalla:


Buusu. So a party that didn't hold Osun state won, what's ur argument?? Oh I forgot, you have started your Kai Kai this morning

Labour Party Contested too.
PDP controls States already.
Reason they joined forces.

Kennedyli:

1. No one takes Asair Dokubo seriously. He has no electoral value.
2. Orubebe is only known for his Outburst. If he had electoral value, he would be contesting.
3. Farah Dagogo is a political thug with no influence in Rivers state. He can only mobilize cultists; luckily Wike is ready for him.
4. General Ditari: I haven't even heard that one's name before and you are calling him an In-aw leader?

- Ijaw leaders are GEJ, who will likely support Peter Obi.
- JP Clark - who will likely support Peter Obi because of Tinubu's Muslim-muslim ticket.
- Topology: who APC is trying to bribe with oil deal after killing his father. Would stay neutral or support whoever GEJ chooses.

All those people you called can't even sway their ward not to talk of local government.

Continue lying to yourself.