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APPEAL FOR PUBLIC TRIAL FOR HENRY OKAH AND EDWARD ATATAH
Henry Okah and
Edward Atatah are undergoing trial in secret and this is a call for a fair
and open trial.
State sponsored
massacre deepens insecurity in the Niger Delta region
Sunday, 17 May 2009 18:19 By Anyakwee Nsirimovu Press Statement
Port Harcourt, May 16, 2009: The Niger Delta Civil Society
Coalition(NDCSC) is shocked beyond believe learning of the latest
massacre of people and razing to ground zero, communities of the
Niger Delta by the President Yar’ Adua led regime in a ‘democracy’. The
very sick, impotent and illegitimate government of President Ya’Adua,
that have hardly moved Nigeria an inch forward in terms of any
visible human development, have shown by its authorization of the latest
massacre and orphaning of further thousands of children in
the Gbaranmatu kingdom, of the region in the latest inferno, that
there is a well written script and strategy for regimes in Nigeria, to go to
any length – genocide inclusive, to expend the peoples of the region, wipe
out their livelihood, to enable oil that fed their primitive
accumulation of wealth, flow without let or hindrance. The
indiscriminate shelling and slaughtering of women, children and helpless
seniors in the communities by federal soldiers of fortune, has no
doubt put a lid on the mockery public relation exercise, flagged off
recently by the President, in the name of amnesty and peaceful
settlement in the region. The
NDCSC maintains and very strongly too, that the conflict in the Niger
Delta is about age long gross and attested violations of
cultural, social, economic, political and environmental rights of the
minority citizens, therefore, beyond the orchestration of criminality and oil
bunkering that deflates from the fundamentality and community support
for the genuine struggle for social justice. The orchestration of
criminality and greed theory, leaving out friends and members of the regime
who drive the arms proliferation and oil bunkering industrial complex
for punishment, continue to make the federal government and oil
multinationals look good internationally, in the face of human degradation in
the region. Let it not be forgotten that structural violence of the
State linked with inhuman standards of operations of oil
multinationals, began the current cycle of violence. The criminal
response of the State to what was a peaceful agitation by the Ogoni
social movement , led by late Ken Saro-Wiwa, led to a change of
strategy by peoples who now genuinely believe that an imposed
government, holds no measure of security to their livelihood. This has
inevitably led to the growing secondary forms of violence, such as
hostage taking and destruction of oil facilities.
Signed:
NIGERIA IS A FAILED STATE, says
ex-MINISTER FG MERGES MILITARY FORCES
IN NIGER DELTA.... UMARU YAR'ADUA'S WHITEHOUSE VISIT HOPES DASHED- PLEASE
STAY AWAY FOR NOW' US TELL NIGERIAN LEADER.... NIGER DELTA CONGRATULATES
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA AND PRAY FOR UNITED STATES SUPPORT FOR INDEPENDENCE..... |
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MEND writes
Yar'adua on "Amnesty"
Friday, 05 June 2009 11:05 By Jomo Gbomo Mr
President: I hope this letter reaches you and your family well. |
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