This Day (Lagos)
23 September 2008
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has described the announcement by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) that it was observing a ceasefire over attacks on oil facilities as giving the wrong impression that Nigeria is at war.
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We have heard this before during the Nigeria civil war as millions of Igbos was massacred by the Federal troops the world was told that it was a police action whereas a full scale war was going on. The problem here is that the people of Niger Delta are still naive to think that the Igbos are part of their problem instead of wanting to learn from the Igbo experience. From were I came from it is called guilty conscience because the Niger delta lacks the audacity to look at the Igbos. You go figure.