Mr President:

Greetings from the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) and
welcome to Nigeria.

You must have been very impressed with Abuja as you rode from the airport to the
Presidential villa. As you took in the new city and its frenzy of construction
projects, you imagined huge potentials for business between Abuja and Moscow.

You are wrong - for now.

The Abuja that you see is a child of rape and the President that you signed
agreements with is an illegal Commander-in-Chief.

I am sure you already know that the region where the wealth with which the city has
been built remains mired in poverty and lack. That the people who own the resources
have no stake in it for which we have now waged a war to emancipate.

By the way, Russian made weapons have been very helpful and reliable in our campaign
and by the time you return to sign the genuine agreements with the rightful owners
of the oil and gas, we may consider a military pact to defend our hard earned
freedom.

It would have been nice to visit the region where you hope to develop gas and see
the pathetic state the people live. See for yourself the type of injustice that led
the likes of Che Guevara, Fidel Castro and Patrice Lumumba to start a revolution.

Mr President, the agreements that you have signed in Abuja are worthless. MEND will
ensure to that. We would rather you sign agreement with every state under true
federalism to develop the potentials that the nation has, from solid minerals to
agriculture and not just a focus on oil and gas from a single region.

Allow me re-freshen your memory on the Russian-backed iron and steel industry which
has become a white elephant project and we fear the same fate may befall the
Trans-Saharan Gas project where the only beneficiaries will be animals converting
inside the pipes as a permanent abode.

Nothing can be certain in Africa except there is justice. We understand that
countries like yours benefit more when dealing with corrupt despots in power but all
that will change in the new Africa.

Your visit has coincided with Hurricane Piper Alpha which struck again today,
Thursday, June 25, 2009 at about 0025 Hrs at the major Shell Bille /
Krakama pipeline in Rivers state to commemorate your visit. Cawthorn Channel 1, 2 &
3 flow stations feeding the Bonny export terminal have been effectively put out of
service.

This is the fate that awaits the Gas pipelines you plan to invest in Nigeria if
justice is not factored in the whole process.

Enjoy your remaining Africa trip.

Jomo Gbomo