Yeah, right! Seeing is believing. MEND & Co. rushed into believing the promise of a “pie-in-the-sky” from this President 10%. Is this N352.2 Billion a 10% of what? There is no clarification whether or not the 10% is on top of whatever percentage the region has been getting. To whom would the "supplementary appropriation" be payable to? To do what and where? Who would be responsible for implementing the fund? The same Niger Delta Ministry that is based in Abuja with no blueprints of its mandates, therefore totally clueless as to what is going on in the region & what it can do to ameliorate the people’s plight? Would the fund be divvy up between the region’s governors who are notorious thieves & shameless common pickpockets, a la Kalu & Alamasiegha? What is the guarantee that the fund would not end up in the sticky fingers of the likes of James Ibori, Mr. $15 Million bribe that is still dinning with the President of Katsina? Who will monitor the fund? Andoaakaa & Waziri, a.k.a., two-faced collaborators & protectors of their fellow rogues? I could go on indefinitely with these questions that should have been ironed out a month or two ago. In fact, a month ago, MEND said it would name Soyinka, among others, to spearhead their negotiating team, a week later the group capitulated like a 2-day-old pap cowed into wearing white garb of their defeat. Where are the Elders that are supposed to watch-out for the wobbly head of the newly born baby behind the mother’s back in a public market? Other than talk, talk, talk so as to collect their usual “OleFRN”, they are nowhere to be found when the chips are down - has anybody heard a peep, lately? The bottom-line is, MEND made a major mistake by folding its cards too soon to a serial liar like this administration. Moreover, MEND’s failure of not articulating all these concern before jumping into bed with a master manipulator that took them to the cleaners. Mind you, the NASS will drag its foot for another year and half and before you know it, it would be (s)election time again when the incumbent would use this funding issue as a campaign ploy to rig itself back into office as the vicious cycle of our common folks continues, “shuffering-in-shilensh” but happiest-people-on-earth. Don’t worry; be happy, your reward is in heaven. MEND has just sold its birthright for another pittance, collectible at a future date uncertain. One would think that poor Nigerians would’ve learned their lessons from one of the Emperor’s many lies -a “…declaration of Emergency on Power …” Almost 3 years since the promise, where is the emergency declaration as we continue to wallow in the dark, instead of taking to the street to demand, by any means necessary, our collective rights in the midst of plenty that end up in the leaky pockets of a very, very few frivolous cavaliers that care for nobody else but themselves? Good luck...