Daily Trust (Abuja)
22 February 2008
Nigeria's restive Niger Delta region is one of the areas of the world prone to another outbreak of the plague, according to top scientists.
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No doubt that Niger Delta, has continued to be a threat area to many human activity.But one common agreement about the fear of the area is that there has been years of neglect of the environment,its people and development need of the region.Anger and hunger is the base of the voilence.It will only take time mixed with truth and commitment to arrest the restiveness. Again we need to break away from the myth,silence and build education.To this extent I have written a book;fiction to tell a Niger Delta story and militancy.When it is made public,it will be a useful literature.
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The uncontrolled oil spill effects in the Niger Delta,posses the threats of the likely break-out of an epidermic.The oil spilled in the environment could disfigure the habitat of wild animals,Birds and fishes.Either they are killed and extinct or they become carriers of the viruses that are eventually contacted by the humans.The book 'Dying Voices of Gongs' presents some of this likely problems as it lays out the different shades of the militancy activities in the area.The environmental and health problems were identified and included in the outlined reasons for the agitation and demand for responsiblity in the manner and operational module that must be adopted by the oil explorationists.If international standard is maintained,this problem could be minimized. www.tamunobarabi.wordpress.com
People have to thread with great causion and not be allowed to be carried into some fantasy land by fictitious scientific stories by these so-to-say top scientists that predict which areas of the world will have plague etc. People should watch and beware! Is it impossible that some of these outbreaks of various diseases could be actually linked to some people that spread the diseases? The AIDS that has been ravaging Africa is said to have been spread through hunters that killed and butchered apes. But the first case of AIDS was diagnosed in the US in 1981 where there are no hunters killing and butchering apes. But then it jumped to Africa in 1983. One wonders what miracle really occured. Another interesting aspect of some of these outbreaks surrounds the bird-flu. When the bid-flu showede up in Europe, it is found only with wild birds around the ocean, but when it shows up in Africa, it does not affect wild birds around the ocean but it attacks the domestic birds. What a miracle!