Call them anything Militant, oil Thieves, Miscreants and Lawless these are called freedom Fighters from where I came from. It is true that some bad eggs will infiltrate for their own personal gain but it does change the original goal. If their cause was not valid how come you the VP was ask to mediate prior or the President has set up a commission headed by Amb. Gambari.

The VP will be best served to desist from calling names because these are people that are hurting by desperate action. The Oil has produced more Northern Presidents than Southern and in each instance they walk out with Billions of Dollars at the expense of the oil producing areas. If these Freedom Fighters are not doing what they are doing who would speak for them. VP was seen as the one to broker the impasse but he is now dinning with Northern Hegemony as a token to make it look like his brothers and sisters back home are doing the bad things but not the North exploiting the people.

Yar'Adua could not send warship to defend Bakassi but only sent one like Obasanjo sent soldiers to deal with Ode people. The armed forces of a nation is used to defend her people from outside aggression. The biggest battle the Nigeria Army has fought was against a section of the country called Biafra for the same unfinished business as we see in the Delta region today. The only way to solve the problem is for the North to come clean and stop this exploitation and become aware that Nigeria is more than Hausa and Fulani