Nigeria: Niger Delta Crisis - Yar'Adua's Encouraging Words

opinion

Lagos — For the last 45 years or so, the Niger Delta has been characterized by indifference and by man's inhumanity to man. No government since the days of Tafawa Balewa and Yakubu Gowon could feign ignorance of the state of affairs in the Delta.

Not even the oil companies and their governments could claim not to know of the cruel underdevelopment and hopelessness in the region. Every group and every agency has played deaf and dumb -- going about their profit making operations in a harmful and blasé manner. Well, those days are over! It is time to face reality or bear the brunt of the people's tornadoic anger.

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