WHAT A FALLACY IN THE NIGER-DELTA,

N400 billion for Security (Military Equipment) and N79billion For Development

If I say our government lead by Yar’Adua is insincere about the plight of the Niger-Delta people, someone will say give him sometime, but what an insincere government, what a deluded government, who is bent on deceiving the people of the Niger-Delta.

Commitment comes from the physical attribute of an individual, for instance the commitment to development can only be shown through the amount of time and money committed to such development, in terms of the infrastructure in place.

Yar’Adua’s government budgeted 400 billion naira for security in the Niger-Delta and at the same time budgeted 79 billion naira for physical infrastructural development in the Niger-Delta, please permit me to ask “which will help the people? Which is needed by the people? What are the people agitating for? What are the weapons going to do for the people? Can you resolve a conflict by killing the same people who have been throw into injustice and degradation for many years?”

With these the people of the Niger-Delta area have come to know that the federal government lead by Yar’Adua is another way of injustice and suppression of the people of the Niger-Delta whose land and resources is the economic mainstream and power of the nation, accounting for almost if not all that we have and can get especially now that oil price has skyrocketed to $149 per barrel.

What the people of the Niger-Delta is yenning for is development. But why the weapons and security? Give them what they want and you will need no security.

The Federal government of Nigeria is like the devil; when you ask for food he gives you stone instead of food; when you ask for peace he give you destruction. But let me be clear that I have stayed in the Niger-Delta for years and that the place is very very horrible and underdeveloped especially when you get to the deep areas of the ijaws. And I know that there is no amount of security that can help the federal government than development, so if the government is putting 400 billion naira for weapons (security) and 79 billion for physical infrastructural development it means there won’t be peace except the figure is re-arranged to meet the yenning of the people.

Please Yar’Adua give our people what they need not destruction cause it won’t work

This proposal of annihilation of the Niger-Delta people will not work.

This current situation is Unacceptable