Prior to the massacre, twelve members of the Nigerian police were murdered by a gang near Odi, seven on November 4 and the remainder in the following days.[1] In revenge, the military decided to invade the village but there are reports that the army was ambushed close to the village thus tensions soared,they broke through the ambush and exchanged fire with armed militias in the village who were believed to be using the civilian population as cover this and the "ambush" provocation led to the attack on civilian population and the town's buildings. Every building in the town except the bank, the Anglican church and the health center was burned to the ground. All of this happened in president Olusegun Obasanjo's reign.

A wide range of estimates have been given for the numbers of civilians killed. Human Rights Watch concluded that "the soldiers must certainly have killed tens of unarmed civilians and that figures of several hundred dead are entirely plausible."[1] Nnimmo Bassey, Executive Director of Environmental Rights Action, claims that nearly 2500 civilians were killed.[2] The government initially put the death toll at 43, including eight soldiers.

waternogetemeny:
The massacre will start from your parents and end on your children.

Some of you will end up at the ICC in the near future, wen it becomes clear that Nigeria disintegration is a plan perfected by the true creators of Nigeria.

They no longer need oil, so their is no incentive to continue the fraud called Nigeria. They had long predicted Nigeria disintegration to coincide with America oil boom.


The problem in the oil market is the surplus, the less or zero oil Nigeria produce means American shale oil fields can remain open. Idiot!

QuotaSystem:
President Buhari is exhausting all peaceful options to protect himself and his government from appearing to take the option of brute force by default, especially as the President is from a different region.

If you ask me, I'm in full support of this tactical approach; offer them everything except what they want and let them brag, make noise and continue bombing to the world's ears. I expect the government to start globally publicising the damage that the NDA are doing to the Nigerian economy and their people's lands and livelihood so as to earn some sympathy, before deploying the full and final force which is necessary to flatten them.

Already, we have a spokesman's name for the 'faceless' group in less than a week, so the strategy is working. Give them room to gloat themselves into their own destruction, pride has always come before a damned fall.

The strategy is working, exercise a little patience. This is Buhari.

Nusaf:

Excellent. Give the fool a long rope to hang himself. This is the govt approach which they are already mistaking for weakness. When the government start, I just hope none of these noisemakers will cry foul. Okay oooo!

I laughed heartily when I saw their latest taunt at the Military.

Already, the 'faceless' group has a spokesman; Mudoch Agbinibo.

Patience

godson36:
According to Wikipedia::

The Odi massacre was an attack carried out on November 20, 1999, by the Nigerian military on the predominantly Ijaw town of Odi in Bayelsa State. The attack came in the context of an ongoing conflict in the Niger Delta over indigenous rights to oil resources and environmental protection.

People generally say that the massacre was ordered by the regime of former president Olusegun Obasanjo. The military has often defended its action saying it was ambushed on its way to Odi. As a result, tensions rose prior to entrance into the village.

Massacre



DEATH TOLL


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All that comes to my mind was ODI MASSACRE whenever I had that the Niger delta Avenger's strike.

This same story above can be compare to ZARIA (shia muslim) MASSACRE whereby the military claim that they were ambushed.

If the government can't get the the Niger Delta Avengers to their kneel, then the government will have no option than to repeat ODI and ZARIA MASSACRE in any community where this militant are hiding.

Remember that all the news we have heard about the Niger Deltan Avengers was that "We have know where they are hiding". They are not interested in who they are.

My advice to the elders in the area where the militant are hiding is to chase them out of their land to avoid the fate of ODI massacre whereby all the houses in the area will be demolish and lost of civillian life.

JUST AN ADVICE THOUGH

Nusaf:

Excellent. Give the fool a long rope to hang himself. This is the govt approach which they are already mistaking for weakness. When the government start, I just hope none of these noisemakers will cry foul. Okay oooo!

modath:

There is no way this will end well..

QuotaSystem:
President Buhari is exhausting all peaceful options to protect himself and his government from appearing to take the option of brute force by default, especially as the President is from a different region.

If you ask me, I'm in full support of this tactical approach; offer them everything except what they want and let them brag, make noise and continue bombing to the world's ears. I expect the government to start globally publicising the damage that the NDA are doing to the Nigerian economy and their people's lands and livelihood so as to earn some sympathy, before deploying the full and final force which is necessary to flatten them.

Already, we have a spokesman's name for the 'faceless' group in less than a week, so the strategy is working. Give them room to gloat themselves into their own destruction, pride has always come before a damned fall.

The strategy is working, exercise a little patience. This is Buhari.

mikki123:
Their demands are not outrageous, true federalism is the way out of this mess... Use of force may lead to disintegration of the country. An opinion though

But why the curse??

I just read your commented and I don't know if I should cause you or not. But I decide not to rain curse on you because the Family curse on your head is enough for you to be unsuccessful in life..

But I will add this little one to it.... " Y*u will nev*r make ham as long as Nigeria remains Nigeria""

After telling you that it's just an advice. If this is all you know, then you are born to doom

989900B:
Condolence to those poor villagers in advance . . . the military/DSS will frame them/set them up . . . make it look like provocation and self defense. It is what they are good at; they do it all the time. And the irony is, they will have the backing of the state governors, and other politicians from the ND.

cktheluckyman:


[s]See empty threats!! You will continue to rant online while the militants keeps up with the bombing of pipelines.Instead of you to confront the militants like a man,you chose to cowardly threaten civillians.Well try it and live to rue the consequences[/s]

Babacele:
what if the president jegad this orubebe of a sinister plan nko? nobody can predict maigaskia.

modath:


I'm just scared for the innocent bystanders..