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Published on June 22, 2008
We have strong information to prove that your organization in association with the
greater MEND structure has formed an alliance with Islamic radicals from Lebanon
(Hezbollah) to consolidate attacks on certain targets before the American elections
in November. What is your position on that?
That is the worst level of rumor that I have heard since Abacha died. Why would we need the
support of Islamic radicals to fight our own fight? This fight is our fight. We will therefore fight
it to the finish by any means possible.
Our campaign is based on the fact that while we provide for the existence and sustenance of
the Nigerian state, the communities who produce the oil continue to be neglected and
despised. Is that not treachery?
The budget of the Nigerian state is prepared based on the price of a barrel of oil all of which
is harvested from the Niger Delta. How much of the oil windfall is channeled to the various
host communities? Tell me?? How long will this continue? How can we have so much oil and
yet be so short changed?
Was MEND truly responsible for the attack on Bonga field?
The attack on Bonga field was carried out by a leading commander of the Niger Delta
struggle with strong alliances with the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta.
Unfortunately for us, but fortunately for staff of Shell and on-board workers at the Bonga
FPSO, mercy and pity overcame him and he refused to deploy rocket propelled weaponry
against the offshore facility. Shell would have been counting greater losses now.
However, the Bonga Campaign was just to show those with loud mouths that they should
exercise restrain when they get tempted to talk to much. They do not know what we are
capable of. About three years ago, Shell's MD in Nigeria Basil Omiyi (possibly acting in
conviction and belief in certain security advice and recommendation) stated that militants
could not get near Bonga. Today, he knows better.
Why the attack on Bonga when a Niger Delta Summit is being planned?
Which Niger Delta Summit? You mean the planned caricature jamboree meant to impress the
international community? Sorry for them. Let me tell you. The highest ranking official in the
Niger Delta today especially by virtue of the fact that Ijaws are the principal agitators for a
better life for the people of the Niger Delta is the President of the Ijaw National Congress
Professor Kimse Okoko. Go and find out from him whether the Ijaw National Congress
(INC) is principally involved in the planning of the summit. You may also go and find out the
key participants that have already been penned down for automatic attendance. The whole
thing stinks.
Why would the INC reject a summit if they have full understanding of its planning? We listen
to our elders and the mere fact that the INC rejects the summit means we must also reject it
in its fullest.
What would you suggest should be done for a quick resolution of the Niger Delta
crisis?
My dear brother, we have raised the stakes a little higher. We demand total control of ALL
our resources. But just before then, to make it easy for them, we demand a sovereign national
conference where the various nationalities that were forcefully conscripted into the Nigerian
state must be allowed to state IF they would like to remain in this contraption called Nigeria.
Unfulfilled wives have every right to leave a marriage that is not comfortable for them. The
people of the Ijaw and Niger Delta territory do not want to continue in the Nigerian sojourn.
Would the release of funds for the Niger Delta Development Commission ameliorate
the sufferings of the people of the various communities of the Niger Delta?
My dear, lef mata. The need for the creation of an interventionist agency to tackle the
difficulty faced by the people of the Niger Delta was one of the positions raised by the
Willinks Commission of decades and decades ago. The issue at hand is far different now.
The solutions for the problem in the Niger Delta today cannot be found in NDDC which was
created by Obasanjo to satisfy his own ego. Its creation does not in any way affect the lives
of the people of the Niger Delta.
Those who lord over the Nigerian state are in the habit of subverting the true demands and
aspirations of our people. When we ask for a bowl of rice and stew, they will bring us
coconut with dry fish and place before the international media before giving it to us? Is that
right? We are tired of being taken advantage of.
President Yar 'Adua has ordered a full onslaught against those responsible for the
Bonga field attack. Can Niger Delta militants hold their own against the Nigerian
forces?
My dear brother, Yar'Adua's will continue to talk to save face. If the armed forces of the
Nigerian state attack our people, then we too will attack their people. It will be a war
between David and Goliath. Our strength is in our belief in the Almighty God and in the fact
that the people of the Niger Delta deserve a better deal. God must stand for us.
If they attack our units, then all the Bantustan states of the Niger Delta must be ready to
declare 24 hour curfews because we will take aim on every living thing that carries the banner
of the armed forces of the Nigerian state. Every soldier of the Nigerian state (not their
families) will bear the brunt of any attack on our units. We have committed ourselves to death
IF and WHEN it comes. Even an amateur gun man can take an easy aim on loitering soldiers
of the Nigerian state. They are every where in Delta, Rivers and Bayelsa State.
If they want it, we'll give it to them.
Only yesterday, Saturday 21st June 2008, Chevron suffered a big loss in its Abiteye Olero
crude oil line near Escravos resulting in the shutting in of more than 100,000 barrels of oil per
day. More of such attacks will continue as long as our people continue to be short changed in
the affairs of the Nigerian soldiers. Violence begats violence. If they attack us, then we too
would follow that option. No one has the monopoly of violence. Rebellion against tyranny is
righteousness before God. We have suffered enough.
Cynthia Whyte
Spokesperson, Joint Revolutionary Council
(comprising the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta MEND, The
Reformed Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force NDPVF& The Martyrs Brigade)
We have strong information to prove that your organization in association with the
greater MEND structure has formed an alliance with Islamic radicals from Lebanon
(Hezbollah) to consolidate attacks on certain targets before the American elections
in November. What is your position on that?
That is the worst level of rumor that I have heard since Abacha died. Why would we need the
support of Islamic radicals to fight our own fight? This fight is our fight. We will therefore fight
it to the finish by any means possible.
Our campaign is based on the fact that while we provide for the existence and sustenance of
the Nigerian state, the communities who produce the oil continue to be neglected and
despised. Is that not treachery?
The budget of the Nigerian state is prepared based on the price of a barrel of oil all of which
is harvested from the Niger Delta. How much of the oil windfall is channeled to the various
host communities? Tell me?? How long will this continue? How can we have so much oil and
yet be so short changed?
Was MEND truly responsible for the attack on Bonga field?
The attack on Bonga field was carried out by a leading commander of the Niger Delta
struggle with strong alliances with the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta.
Unfortunately for us, but fortunately for staff of Shell and on-board workers at the Bonga
FPSO, mercy and pity overcame him and he refused to deploy rocket propelled weaponry
against the offshore facility. Shell would have been counting greater losses now.
However, the Bonga Campaign was just to show those with loud mouths that they should
exercise restrain when they get tempted to talk to much. They do not know what we are
capable of. About three years ago, Shell's MD in Nigeria Basil Omiyi (possibly acting in
conviction and belief in certain security advice and recommendation) stated that militants
could not get near Bonga. Today, he knows better.
Why the attack on Bonga when a Niger Delta Summit is being planned?
Which Niger Delta Summit? You mean the planned caricature jamboree meant to impress the
international community? Sorry for them. Let me tell you. The highest ranking official in the
Niger Delta today especially by virtue of the fact that Ijaws are the principal agitators for a
better life for the people of the Niger Delta is the President of the Ijaw National Congress
Professor Kimse Okoko. Go and find out from him whether the Ijaw National Congress
(INC) is principally involved in the planning of the summit. You may also go and find out the
key participants that have already been penned down for automatic attendance. The whole
thing stinks.
Why would the INC reject a summit if they have full understanding of its planning? We listen
to our elders and the mere fact that the INC rejects the summit means we must also reject it
in its fullest.
What would you suggest should be done for a quick resolution of the Niger Delta
crisis?
My dear brother, we have raised the stakes a little higher. We demand total control of ALL
our resources. But just before then, to make it easy for them, we demand a sovereign national
conference where the various nationalities that were forcefully conscripted into the Nigerian
state must be allowed to state IF they would like to remain in this contraption called Nigeria.
Unfulfilled wives have every right to leave a marriage that is not comfortable for them. The
people of the Ijaw and Niger Delta territory do not want to continue in the Nigerian sojourn.
Would the release of funds for the Niger Delta Development Commission ameliorate
the sufferings of the people of the various communities of the Niger Delta?
My dear, lef mata. The need for the creation of an interventionist agency to tackle the
difficulty faced by the people of the Niger Delta was one of the positions raised by the
Willinks Commission of decades and decades ago. The issue at hand is far different now.
The solutions for the problem in the Niger Delta today cannot be found in NDDC which was
created by Obasanjo to satisfy his own ego. Its creation does not in any way affect the lives
of the people of the Niger Delta.
Those who lord over the Nigerian state are in the habit of subverting the true demands and
aspirations of our people. When we ask for a bowl of rice and stew, they will bring us
coconut with dry fish and place before the international media before giving it to us? Is that
right? We are tired of being taken advantage of.
President Yar 'Adua has ordered a full onslaught against those responsible for the
Bonga field attack. Can Niger Delta militants hold their own against the Nigerian
forces?
My dear brother, Yar'Adua's will continue to talk to save face. If the armed forces of the
Nigerian state attack our people, then we too will attack their people. It will be a war
between David and Goliath. Our strength is in our belief in the Almighty God and in the fact
that the people of the Niger Delta deserve a better deal. God must stand for us.
If they attack our units, then all the Bantustan states of the Niger Delta must be ready to
declare 24 hour curfews because we will take aim on every living thing that carries the banner
of the armed forces of the Nigerian state. Every soldier of the Nigerian state (not their
families) will bear the brunt of any attack on our units. We have committed ourselves to death
IF and WHEN it comes. Even an amateur gun man can take an easy aim on loitering soldiers
of the Nigerian state. They are every where in Delta, Rivers and Bayelsa State.
If they want it, we'll give it to them.
Only yesterday, Saturday 21st June 2008, Chevron suffered a big loss in its Abiteye Olero
crude oil line near Escravos resulting in the shutting in of more than 100,000 barrels of oil per
day. More of such attacks will continue as long as our people continue to be short changed in
the affairs of the Nigerian soldiers. Violence begats violence. If they attack us, then we too
would follow that option. No one has the monopoly of violence. Rebellion against tyranny is
righteousness before God. We have suffered enough.
Cynthia Whyte
Spokesperson, Joint Revolutionary Council
(comprising the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta MEND, The
Reformed Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force NDPVF& The Martyrs Brigade)
Interview: Unrest in the Niger Delta, Yar'Adua threat is
in vain!
in vain!
