My headache,and I believe a lot of folks will agree with me,you(as a group) seemed to have kept a complicit silence on how the extra 13% monthly allocations are spent by the inept and wickedly corrupt governors.Will you not agree that these individuals(governors)deserves your “special treatment”,for stealing the collective dreams of everyone of us?

Let me quickly add that I agree the 13% is not enough(absolutely ridiculous,actually);nevertheless,if honestly and cleverly marshalled to prosecute our needs there would be difference,or albeit very slight.I’ve been to Lagos State recently the transformation going on there is quite telling,and yet Lagos State don’t get the extra 13% monthly allocations.

If you folks have not achieved the grand objective,at least you have the attention of the world,that includes the hopelessly irritating governors.Perhaps it is time you folks engage their attention to account for these moneys.Wish you best regards in your pursuits.

Professor J.P. Clark’s suggestion on armistice as against amnesty for freedom fighters is what MEND and Tompolo are favorably disposed to for adoption as the next step to take towards resolving the crisis.

While the government is talking about amnesty on one hand, the JTF on the other is still carrying out punitive scorched earth policy on communities around oil facilities as a way of permanently relocating the people from their ancestral homes and turning the area into an oil mining area.
The July 2, 2009 attack was carried out on the Abiteye community in Delta state by the JTF. We will not be surprised if the army denies it or simply blame it on unknown soldiers.

The burning down of this community even when the inhabitants have fled will be revenged and it is the oil companies that will bear the brunt.

The recent comments by Vice President Goodluck Jonathan that criminal barons are frustrating the amnesty implementation is not true. The governments insincerity is the major cause where one sees the Interior Minister traveling from Abuja to Port Harcourt to talk to fake representatives of militant commanders but can not travel the shorter distance to see Henry Okah who is dying and needs urgent medical attention.

The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) hereby warns the investors to the Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline project that unless the Niger Delta root issues have been addressed and resolved, any money put into the project will go down the drain as we will ensure that it faces the same fate other pipelines are facing today.

We want to use this opportunity to warn the remaining companies still operating in the region, namely Agip, Total, Shell and Exxon Mobil to leave while there is still time because within the next 72 Hours Hurricane Piper Alpha will be upgraded to Hurricane Moses.

Professor J.P. Clark’s suggestion on armistice as against amnesty for freedom fighters is what MEND and Tompolo are favorably disposed to for adoption as the next step to take towards resolving the crisis.

While the government is talking about amnesty on one hand, the JTF on the other is still carrying out punitive scorched earth policy on communities around oil facilities as a way of permanently relocating the people from their ancestral homes and turning the area into an oil mining area.
The July 2, 2009 attack was carried out on the Abiteye community in Delta state by the JTF. We will not be surprised if the army denies it or simply blame it on unknown soldiers.

The burning down of this community even when the inhabitants have fled will be revenged and it is the oil companies that will bear the brunt.

The recent comments by Vice President Goodluck Jonathan that criminal barons are frustrating the amnesty implementation is not true. The governments insincerity is the major cause where one sees the Interior Minister traveling from Abuja to Port Harcourt to talk to fake representatives of militant commanders but can not travel the shorter distance to see Henry Okah who is dying and needs urgent medical attention.

The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) hereby warns the investors to the Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline project that unless the Niger Delta root issues have been addressed and resolved, any money put into the project will go down the drain as we will ensure that it faces the same fate other pipelines are facing today.

We want to use this opportunity to warn the remaining companies still operating in the region, namely Agip, Total, Shell and Exxon Mobil to leave while there is still time because within the next 72 Hours Hurricane Piper Alpha will be upgraded to Hurricane Moses.

Bunkering, kidnapping of Innocent citizens for ransom should never have been part of the struggle.

Personally I don’t support bombing of houses by JFT, but we all should know that if not for the criminality that is going on in the region, the JTF will never have done what they did in Gbaramantu.

This is the time for the leaders of the region to come together with Government and dialogue, ensure that their youths find a genuine way to the struggle and not criminality.

May God grant them all their prayers.

Thank you

Katsina-ala

Unfortunately, most of the commanders/leaders of the MEND and their supporters are bunkerers.

The Federal Government must engage in genuine developmental projects like linking the creeks with roads and b ridges, electricity provision, these will help to boost the courage of the ordinary populace of this region, to muster courage to oppose the so-called leaders of sabotage camouflaging as freedom fighters.

Direct execution of these project will help matters, no middle men of stakeholders that has never helped matters in this region, the agencies like NNDC and DESOPADEC are better in any way to mediate in such projects, these agencies are made up of questionable characters. Since their inception, it has been the same story of complaints without genuine development seen.

Please help us to cultivate and maintain the peace.