The issue of military operation better than the amnesty declared by President Yar'Adua in the niger delta as contained in the monday interview of the Vanguard newspaper with one Sagir Mohammed,a retired military intelligence officer is maliciously sentimental.Having someone like Sagir Mohammed as an intelligence officer(former)in the nigerian military was mis-normal and one of the manifestations of the nigerian military made up of mediocre.
September 2009
OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT UMARU MUSA YAR’ADUA ON THE NIGER DELTA.
HIGH CHIEF GOVERNMENT EKEPEMUPOLO
IBE EBIDOUWEI OF IJAWLAND
2, Palace Road, Oporoza Town, Gbaranmatu Kingdom, Delta State.
24th August 2009
OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT UMARU MUSA YAR’ADUA ON THE NIGER DELTA.
MR. PRESIDENT
U.S. Army Wargames for Future Military Intervention in Nigeria and Somalia
In May 2008, the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, hosted “Unified Quest 2008,” the Army’s annual war games to test the American military’s ability to deal with the kind of crises that it might face in the near future. “Unified Quest 2008” was especially noteworthy because it was the first time that the war games included African scenarios as part of the Pentagon’s plan to create a new military command for the continent: the Africa Command or AFRICOM. No representatives of AFRICOM were at the war games, but AFRICOM officers were in close communication throughout the event.
Cameroon Army Weapons at Bayelsa Disarmament Ceremony
The Browning .50 Caliber Machine Guns (listed by government as Brandy Machine Guns)
displayed on Saturday, August 22, 2009 in Yenagoa, Bayelsa state were identified by
Cameroonian Military Intelligence as suspected weapons seized after an attack on
November 12, 2007 in its territorial waters by unknown gun men from Nigeria believed
to be men of the Nigerian army in which 21 Cameroonian gendarmes were killed.
We hope that the Nigerian military whom we accused recently of providing its weapons
for display at that shameful disarmament ceremony will allow an independent
Nigerian Government Preparing for Imminent Military Offensive in the Delta
There is mounting evidence that the government of Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar’adua is set to launch a full-scale offensive in the Niger Delta when a ceasefire declared by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) ends on 15 Sep 2009.
And this time, Nigerian military forces will be using special warships, helicopter gunships and troop transports, and unmanned drone intelligence planes and ships sold to Nigeria by Israeli, Malaysian, Singaporean, Dutch, and Russian companies.
Nigeria braces for push against oil rebels
United Press International
Nigeria braces for push against oil rebels
Published: Sept. 11, 2009 at 12:01 PM
As the mid-September deadline for a cease-fire in Nigeria's oil war approaches with no sign of a mass surrender by rebels who have shattered the country's oil production, President Umaru Yar'Adua is preparing for an all-out army offensive, according to published reports.
Earlier offensives failed to crush the rebels, but this time Yar'Adua will have Israeli warships and trainers to help his forces operate in the swampy Niger Delta.
Nigeria: No Mercy for Militants After October 4 - Federal Government
Lagos/Warri/Asaba — Seven days to the deadline for militants to drop their arms and accept amnesty, Abuja at the weekend warned that none would be treated with mercy after October 4.
Defence Minister and Amnesty Panel Chairman, Godwin Abbe, has reportedly foreclosed extending the deadline, as requested by some militant leaders.
A source in Aso Rock said unrepentant militants would be treated like criminals once the amnesty expires.
Nigerian delta militant group names mediation team
LAGOS (Reuters) - The main militant group in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta on Tuesday named a team of mediators to negotiate with the government over disarmament but said the amnesty process "lacked integrity".
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) named a team including Nobel Prize-winning writer Wole Soyinka and two retired senior military officials who it said had volunteered to act as mediators on its behalf.
Statement of Jomo Ghomo of MEND on Aaron Team
Statement by Jomo Ghomo on Aaron Team
"...I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt."
Exodus 3: 9-10
Some eminent Nigerians have graciously accepted to dialogue on behalf of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) with the Federal Government of Nigeria whenever the government realizes the need to adopt serious, meaningful dialogue as a means to halting the violent agitation in the Niger Delta.
