[Son of the Delta]

The author`s analysis is very,very poor.In the first place the Nigerian state is the major financier of violence in the Niger Delta region.
1. In the first instance agitators like Ateke Tom cut their teeth fighting for the government. Even under the past regime he regularly went on patrol with State agencies; unfortunately it took him so much time to recognise that those activities he participated in on behalf of the Nigerian state were not only illegal but also detrimental to his immediate surrounding. How come the Nigerian state refuse to go after Ateke Tom untill he retraced his footsteps, and if the Nigerian state was not a terrorist one why would it continue to shield Sobomabo George that keeps working with them to destablise the region? Why would the Nigerian state security operatives organize jail breaks for him and shield him in the government house? If the Nigerian state is not the financier of "terrorism" why would Olusegun Obasanjo send a presidential helicopter to pick Sobomabo George and Peter Odili to his Otta Farm.
2. If the Nigerian state was not involved in "terrorism" and violence in the Niger Delta region why would the Nigerian minster for information under Obasanjo (Frank Nweke) juniour be able to identify that the militant that spoke with Jeff Konaige of the CNN was not Jomo Gbomo.
3. If the Nigerian state was not interested in violence and "terrorism" in the region why would the Yar'Adua government attack a community when a peace match is going on.
4. The active groups in the region have always asked for equity, the rights the previous regions had when they were productive, and the end to the economic, political, ecological, and military attacks on the region, but instead of developing the region after a cease fire that have lasted for months all Yar'Adua could do was to make the parliament pass a bill to finance his purchase of arms to be used to attack the region. The January deliveries would soon arrive and it is time to let the spin doctors prepare the minds of the people for the impending attack on the region. If Yar' Adua and his people think that the would create a Darfur out of the region they should step into the harvest of their corpses. Never in any part of the world have a people been as patient as this region and God would surely give them the victory over the marauding blood thirsty Islamic terrorist fro0m the North that are hiding under the cloak of governance to reign havok on the region
5. If the Nigerian State was not a terrorist and rogue state why would she continually continue to create an enabling enviroment of grieviance and violence?
6. If the Nigerian state is not a terrorist state why would it attack the supremacy of the Okirikan monarch within his territory and this writer also forgot the aspect were even military sources said that the major financiers of most of these acts as well as a sizeable number of fighters were not from the region.
7. If the Nigerian State is not a "terrorist" and violent state, it would not attack people when they lay down their arms. How come Asari was arrested only after he returned his arms to the government!!! Why is Ateke Tom being attacked only after he had stoped the military escapades he was involved in on behalf of the state!!!
8. If Nigeria is thinking she can decieve the world with her campaign of shame and lies she would be engulfed by them. You do not destroy the habitat of an indigenous group, kill them like game, and tag them as treasury looters and "terrorists". In the 60s they were communists, now they are terrorists and you are forgetting that the leadership of the Nigerian state have always been from areas with nearly 60 if not 80% Islamists.
9. How wouldn't this writer have the effrontery to write an article calling the Niger-Deltans "terrorists" when the leader of the current government buys arms to attack the region while as a fundamentalist he had replaced Nigerian laws in his state with Islamic extremist laws. Aren't Bin Laden and his followers all Islamic fundamentalists that stick Sharia like the President himself!!! Why should a term for such renegrades be transfered to describe the agitation of a region that have been oppressed continually for 50years now!!! if not sheer greed and an intent to misinform people.