Daily Independent (Lagos)
Akinwunmi King
22 May 2009
Lagos — Civil Liberty Organisation (CLO) said the Joint Task Force (JTF)'s military adventure in Gbaramatu and other communities across the Niger Delta region is a declaration of war by the Federal Government on not just the Niger Deltans but also on all Nigerians.
It explained that the present activities of the JTF in Gbaramatu kingdom is uncalled for, adding that for a government that swears to defend the Constitution and provide for the security and welfare of the people; and for a government that only recently declared amnesty for militants, the government's action is hypocrisy of the highest order.
CLO, in a statement signed by its Chairman, Eneruvie Enakoko, explained that it had in the last one week or so, been watching with shock and disbelief, the JTF's military onslaught in the Gbaramatu community of Delta State on the orders of President Umaru Yar'Adua.
"We had held our peace, hoping that the government will quickly see the futility of such action in the name of rescuing hostages, and retrace its steps, but apparently, we had hoped in vain.
"At a time when high level authority seeks to silence opposition by equating the voices of dissent with disloyalty, we in the CLO have decided to speak against this military intervention because we agree with Dante that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in the period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.
"We have chosen to move against this avoidable carnage because our conscience leaves us no other choice. A time comes when silence is betrayal. And that time has come in relation to the Niger Delta question. The irony of it all is that innocent citizens rather than the targeted militants are the ones caught in the crossfire.
"We are confronted with a moral issue; it is a national issue and adequate steps must be taken to address the genuine demands of the people," the group said.
It, however, maintained that in order to end this nightmare, President Umaru Yar'Adua must stop all military campaign in Gbaramatu and other parts of the Niger Delta immediately; it also urged the president to declare a unilateral cease-fire with the hope that such action will create the necessary atmosphere for negotiation.
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James Ibori was the governor of this state. During his time, Billions of petrol Dollar money was sunk in the state. He was currupt, and made no impact. He is an indegine.
NNDC was saddled with certain developmental responsibilities. Billions of petrol dollar money was sunk into it. Members of NNDC were all indegines.
Federal government in the past 10 years had sunk billions. All these money were stolen by the same leader of Niger Delta .. This does not exclude Executive Governors past and present, Chairmen of Local government in the states. These are the same people employing the service of the miscreants to preasure the Federal government to allocate more and more funds which have always gone under the drain.
Militants were remnants of criminals that were used by James Ibori to fight and won an illegitimate elections, he was also a miscreant during Abachas regime.
The criminal gangs are illitrates that have upturn a just struggle into a money making venture for themselves, and remained stooges of the likes of James Ibori and the gangs in government.
These miscreants should be stoped, not by the Federal government, not by the JTF, but by their irresponsible elders who encourages criminality in the name of struggle. This is because, at the end of time, their children, and great grand children will be the looser.
Biafra is instructive. Look at the possition of the Ibos today in the scheme of things in Nigeria since the civil war. While this is not commendable, any section of a whole (Federation) that attempted self determination in this manner is difficult to be trusted by others in future. Where is Ojukwu today???
I BELIEVE THIS IS THE WAR THAT WILL GIVE US INDEPENDENCE FROM NIGERIA. NIGER DELTA REPUBLIC !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
sorry to say this, Nigeri as country lacks a sincere leader,hence everything goes in this nation. take for intsance we call ourselves oil gaint, without a REFINARY that is working to capacity and we are talking of exporting crud oil and importing PMS,what about the rest of the residue? this is what the leaders shold be considering not all this talk on we are trying to see how to get fule across the country.
This is not happening! And this statement credited to N'Allah - "What is happening in the Niger Delta is pure criminality of the highest order, arising from total disregard for constituted authority. In Iraq, thousands of people lost their lives because of an insurrection against the government during the reign of former Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein. We can do away with 20 million militants for the rest 120 million Nigerians to live," - can not even be imagined in this century. The world can now see the type of idiots that unfair politics put in one of Nigeria's legislature. Thank Allah for the likes of Dr Davis Sokonte.
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