"No country is going to create wealth if its leaders exploit the economy to enrich
themselves...No business wants to invest in a place where the government skims 20
percent off the top..No person wants to live in a society where the rule of law
gives way to the rule of brutality and bribery... That is not democracy, that is
tyranny, even if occasionally you sprinkle an election in there.. and now is the
time for that style of governance to end."
- Barack H. Obama, President of the United States of America (July 11, 2009)
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) salutes our brother,
Barack Obama for choosing Ghana over failed states such as Nigeria, Angola
or Equatorial Guinea for his maiden official visit to sub-Saharan Africa.
This is a cheering message for ordinary Africans who will no longer have to tolerate
watching the painful images on television of their corrupt leaders being warmly
embraced by US Presidents.
If it were possible to delete images from our memory, many people will not hesitate
to do away with the mismatched images of Reagan/Mobutu or Clinton/Obasanjo.
President Obama's candor has energized our movement and renewed our conviction in
the ultimate triumph of justice. Because our fight for justice is happening in the
type of country with a fraudulent electoral process, corrupt leadership and brutal
military he described to parliament in Accra, we feel vindicated.
The problems facing our dear country Nigeria has nothing to do with militant freedom
fighters but with the corrupt political leadership and certain arrogant tribes still
living on past glory.
A boardroom or creek battle of epic proportion which will either emancipate the
Niger Delta from over 50 years of tyranny or subject her to perpetual slavery
was flagged off tonight by Hurricane Moses with a plague of warning attacks.
Led by a pillar of fire, heavily armed MEND fighters today, Sunday, July 12, 2009 at
about 2230 Hrs carried out an unprecedented attack on the Atlas Cove Jetty in Lagos
state. The depot and loading tankers moored at the facility are currently on fire.
The two-pronged approach of combining dialogue and intensifying attacks throughout
the course of negotiations, will be the unique characteristics of Moses.
The Aaron team that will be put together after due consultations with stake holders
from around the globe, militant commanders and Henry Okah, will present the time
framed demands of the Niger Delta region to the President through the Timi Alaibe
led Federal Government of Nigeria delegation.
MEND will as usual update the public on the progress being made as well as plagues
being delivered.
We want to assure our people and well wishers that we will not sell our
birthright for a bowl of porridge because we are not committed to anyone but the
people of the Niger Delta.
The mother of all plagues will be used as a last resort if the Nigerian Pharaohs
show stubbornness over reasoning just as Moses did with the plague on the firstborn
in ancient Egypt and the Americans with the plague of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima
and Nagasaki.
We sincerely hope for the sake of avoiding a total calamity that Egypt will not
harden its heart and the exodus of our people to the promised land can commence as
soon as possible.
God save Nigeria. God bless the Niger Delta. God bless our Freedom Fighters.
Jomo Gbomo
