Hi All, i saw this article in my mailing list, i do agree with the writer and though to drop a line so all can read it
Ogaga Maxwell
Below is an articule i just wrote, and am posting online and sharing so that people can read, its about this so call Niger delta issue and how it is just one big lie from almost every angle you look at it.
Pls when you have time , just read through and Help me circulate, or post to your blog and if possible the papers.
Well to me, this is the little way i can fight and contribute to this struggle, by writting,.. just go tru it and i will be greatful to get your comments, or critic and pls excus my typo where they occur.
cheers
NIGER DELTA ,Planet in Peril, INDEED!!
Well thanks to the Cable News network, (CNN) Nigeria once again made a major story on one of its special program, Planet in Peril. What is it this time? Well it’s the now world famous Niger Delta story, that’s what was on the news again. Well this post is actually not about CNN and how it would rather show the ugly or troubled side of Nigeria to the world, and not try to balance those stories with all the Good or great things happening in Nigeria at the same time.My issues here on this post, is this our so called Niger Delta issue, fight for freedom or what ever they call it, that is now going on in the region for some time, because to me I really don’t know anymore and cant make sense of the whole thing.If I had grown up in another part of Nigeria, well my ignorance can be excused, but I grew up in the Heart of the so called Niger Delta, and I come from within the region, born and raised up in Warri, Delta state Nigeria and having lived and worked in Port Harcourt for the last four years before living the country, hopefully to return soon,I ought to know better about what the problem in the region is but the truth is that I don’t, and infact nobody really knows what the problem is, as obvious as it may seem, because if we all know, why are we not solving it?.Just incase you are reading this and, think why is he saying this? Well here’s why I am saying what I just said.CNN will make the average world viewers and even some Nigeria’s oblivious of the Niger Delta issue, fell like it is Hell out there in the region, and that Nigeria or the Nigeria Delta is just one big hole on the face of the planet, possibly another Sudan or Sierra Leone in the making.Well its not at least not yet, but the Niger delta is actually what we can call a very complicated case of Evil, done to a group of people or region. First off, we have a Government, and by that I mean, the Nigerian Government since independence from the British till the present day, that has been so insensitive, greedy, corrupt and far from the reality of what is really going on in the Niger Delta.Secondly we also have state Governments and Local Goverments within the region that, sadly enough have towed the same line as the Federal Government both during Military and Civilian governments.Thirdly we have the major multinational oil companies, that have been the actual investors and sometimes rapists on the ground in the Niger delta, Fourthly the so called community Leaders within the region, and last but not the least, me, you,MEND and all the 1001 militant groups springing up everyday, we all have created this MONSTER! That we see today, called the Niger Delta crisis. However, my list above is an encompassing one, I will try to make 2 exception, First the Federal Government of the day because it seems to have a good intent for the region, but they are saddle with over 40years of neglect to deal with, lack of trust and to make matters worse the people within the region just cant wait anymore, so this young Government is left to deal with a monster that past Governments in the Military era and the (Obasanjor) OBJ, Government created. The second exception I will make, will be me and you, just so that you don’t get angry that I said you are part of the problem and decide not to read through this, thirdly maybe one or two present Governor from within the region, because of their drive for change, but I wont mention names just yet.Well CNN report got one thing right, the Niger Delta, is where the thirst for oil has created a deadly situation, the wealth created by the Black gold over the years has gone into pockets of some of the most wicked, greedy and corrupt people on the face of the earth, Presidents, Governors, Local government chairman, state and federal legislators, community leaders, certain foreigners etc, and has eventually created a problem with a hydra head.I for one believe the wealth underneath the earth in the Niger Delta, is meant to be a blessing, for Nigeria. First for the people within the region that are feeling the direct effect of the exploration activities, and also for the common good of the entire Nigerian state, but sadly enough this is not the case.The wealth is in the hands of a few, some of them in Government, others out of Government and these people are everywhere round the country, from up north, to down south, from the west and to the east. They have profited from the oil wealth in government purse through their corrupt days in office or out of office, through political connections etc, these are the people that will do any thing for things to remain the way it has always been, and rather unfortunately we have a lot of these people either still in government at one level or the other, or they are Godfathers behind the scene. These groups of people, are like wolfs in wolfs clothing, they are killer bees and will always be a part of Nigeria’s problem. The so called military or is it militant group we see in the Delta, some are even groups that represent the interest of this same people mentioned above, because since the agitation in the region is growing, they now had to look for other means to continue to milk the wealth from the region, and one of such is to have or sponsor groups in the Region through this so called Niger Delta struggle, so that with the instability in the region they can profit, either through bunkering of oil, or for those in government securing heavy security vote from national and state budget that they can plunder, that’s why for me, the credibility of a whole lot of these groups within the Niger Delta that go by one name or the other, is just a masquerade.The ones that are really up in arms for a genuine struggle are few, indeed if any.The Situation in Port Harcourt, capital of Rivers state in the last few years, tells you a story of how politicians helped in arming young men to use them in rigging election, these young men becoming wise and kept the guns for themselves, and in some case split up because they two have tasted oil money, power and respect by the gun, and over time we now see, what we see in Port Harcourt and surrounding town and states, such as Kidnappings for ransom, Bank robbery, jail break, and the tussle for power by some of these gangs, that spilled into the street late 2007, and yet some of this same gangs, YES!! Gangs , have the nerve to call themselves freedom fighters, fighting to free who ?, definitely not me or the millions of Niger Deltan’s that so eagerly want to see a change in the region.MEND, on the other hand, is still hard to place, they make strong statements and claims, sometimes blow up oil installations, and threaten the oil companies , but at the end of the day leaves everyone wondering, what do they really want ?, where do they want to take this fighting to ?, because to me, I see nothing so far that is constructive about the fighting, yes we all agree that the Federal Government, and the Oil companies have for so long robbed the Niger Delta people and we just cant take it anymore, so that’s why (MEND) are fight, but what about the many state governors from within the region that have also looted state treasury while people in the region suffered, what about some of the so called elders that have parleyed with Government , and oil companies to become rich and influential , while its people and the region sufferers, and now they are the ones calling themselves elder or leaders that want to mediated for peace, are these people not known as part of the problem in MEND books?To Me, I feel If MEND must raise its profile as a true fighter, then its should not just be up in arms, and enjoy clips like the one shown on CNN where they call them “ One of the most Notorious or Violent militant in the world”, No! to me I think such report do more harm than Good to the cause of MEND, which if am correct is to liberate the Niger delta from years of Poverty and neglect, then it should not let it self be called a Violent group on international TV, its ok to show the Guns and Bazookas, the Hooded face and red head bands on military camouflage, but more importantly they should tell the Niger Delta people and the world, what they have achieved so far?.So back to why I say the problem is complicated, you have groups within the region, some fighting each other, over who should be the Underground warlord e.g. Tom Ateke and George Sogboma mini war, some groups are just ethnic fighting, e.g. Okrika- Eleme, and the many other inter and intra ethic squabbles that comes up every now and then amongst the hundreds of tribe within the oil rich producing region.We have the Oil bunkering groups some of which are from the group mentioned above and in some of the text I will write belowWe have the criminal group or some time petty thief’s that take advantage of the situation and kidnap, expatriates, or wealthy Nigerians and sometimes regrettably little children also.We have groups like the well known Militants groups MEND fighting the government Military forces protecting oil installations.We have to groups that are always on TV, especially private TV stations in Lagos state, talking about the problems in the Niger Delta and how they are going to fight to the end to liberate their people, e.g. Joseph Eva, Asari Dokubo etc, and yet you will hardly see them on local TV or radio stations in the Niger delta region, at least the private radio stations, if they will want to argue that we only have mainly state run TV in the Niger delta region.We have the state Governors, most of whom where planted by their predecessors, so they really cant investigate past government as we have seen in the last one year plus now, none so far has even accused the immediate past government of corruption, maybe an exception will be in Rivers state, because the Governor came in via a court verdict in his favor.And last but not the least we, have the me and you and the millions of Niger delta people group, who just seat and watch all the various actors or groups mentioned above do the, siphoning of cash to foreign accounts, the cat catch rat match, finger pointing, blame catapulting, propaganda war, and the shelling, shooting, bombing, that go on in the creeks, or water ways of the Niger delta region.All these brings me back to where I started, which is this,. Where do we go from here? How can this problem be solved? how can the legitimate groups above be pacified and the criminal and evil one be clearly identified and totally alienated and flushed out, well its hard to tell, because sometimes, the boundaries within each of this groupings are not a clear cut one, today I can be the one writting and saying my bit or side of the story, who knows maybe tomorrow I might be amongst the masked ones in the creeks, brandishing a Gun on CNN, or who knows I can somehow find my self in government and get my conscience marred and lot the federal, state or local purse , or who knows I can still end up as an executive in the oil industry and look for all the best ways to continue milking wealth from the crude oil business, while the trouble in the region rages on. The CNN report is just meant to do one thing, and the reporter Lisa Ling, said it over and over again in her report, if you listen to it well you will pick up on it. The CNN report just serves to show that a source of crude that is Vital to US economy, is being threatened, and with the pressure already in the US economy, if it should lose oil supply from Nigeria, with out argument that loss very well, you can just imagine what will happen,that’s just itSo it’s not like CNN really want to show this region to the world, so that world leaders or the UN will debate, or pressure the Nigeria government to act, in the most expeditious and bold manner to address the biggest issue facing it nationhood, but that Nigeria’s oil is not a dependable source for supply.However Lisa ling personal statement, on the news show hit the point again, its greed thats at the bottom of all this suffering and trouble in the regionDespite the picture I have painted, I believe there’s hope for the region to change, to rise and to grow, the reason I believe this, is because of what we see today, it is bound to get this worse, before it will get better, although it would have been better if everything had worked well from the start, when oil was first supped at Oloibiri in 1956… or so, well that didn’t happen, but we are at the turning point now, lets keep hope alive and keep prayingThis perhaps happens to be my longest post ever, well I have always avoided this topic, but I guess this evening was just the right time to get it off my chest!Find linkhttp://edition. cnn.com/2008/ WORLD/africa/ 12/11/pip. nigeria.oil/ index.html# cnnSTCVideoMany people may have contrary views to some or all I have said here, but the truth is....... what it is,
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Wednesday 17 December 2008
Tuesday 2 December 2008
Interview With Kingsley Bangwell
Kingsley Bangwell is one of the leading youth activists in Nigeria, the Executive Director of Yougstars Foundation Jos (www.youngstarfoundation.org). in view of his effort in youth development, he was interviewed by Maxwell Ogaga (team leader, Dare 2 Dream Youth Initiative), he hosted the 1st ever Nigerian Youth Stakeholders forum in Abuja.read and learn.
Maxwell: May we meet you Sir?
My name is Kingsley N.T. Bangwell, Team Leader of Youngstars Development Initiative a.k.a Youngstars Foundation started since 1996. I also just recently became the resident pastor of Power City Intl Churches Jos Branch and also recently admitted into ASHOKA fellowship in June 2008.
Maxwell: What project are you currently involved in now?
Ha ha, there are projects in my mind and there are projects ongoing, lets talk about projects ongoing. DESPLAY which is our annually youth democracy and good governance training program which has been elevated by our funders to an African project. Youth Works Top 12 Awards which was a program that trained over 200 Nigeria youths in about 15 states within the last 12 months, and about 47 of the youths have done 220 activities reaching about 6,000 youths in Nigeria. Next year we shall organize an award for the best 12, its being funded by British Council. There is Youth Lens, a new project that is educating youths in 3 communities on the need to help government by monitoring the quality of work done by contractors in their localities. A website is on that will report monthly what is going on and we would send periodic reports to government. Then there is Shine Plateau Youth Tv show which we piloted in April for a quarter and its going back on air in January, every quarter a youth will win $1,000 after a contest of who has a good idea to implement under the 10 point Agenda of Gov. Jang, the winner gets the fund to implement a six months project. Then there is the Kingsley Bangwell Leadership Prize for Teenagers Starting Early which is my own personal way of giving back to the society. We worked in 8 schools with 100 kids teaching them leadership over a 5 weeks course, among them they were encouraged to do projects, and about 40 projects were recorded, from which I am giving 3 of them educational scholarship of $500, and $300 respectively (by the way you can donate towards it, abi?). Guess when the event will hold…..? January 20th 2009, to mark dr. marthin lurther kings day and swearing in of sen barrack obama first African American president of the United States of America! In future I will share with you projects still being incubated in my mind!
Maxwell: You just returned from a trip, visiting Greece what can you tell us?
Yes I was invited to speak during the 13th International Anti-Corruption Conference organized every 2 years by Transparency International. It was such a great privilege for me as a young person. I spoke on how corruption fosters violent conflicts, especially youth restiveness. Although I raised my concern that such an event of about 1500 participants and they were talking about developing the future, there was just a handful of youths there. I got lots of commendation, infact, someone from the audience said I would become the Ghandi of Africa. I also met with Mrs Waziri, the Chairman of EFCC, I also met with Peter Aigen Founder of Transparency International. It was a 4 day event, and I headed back home immediately after it.
Maxwell: You have been in youth development for some time, what have been your experience?
Hmmmmm, my experience is being captured in a book I am putting together that will also share my perspective about working with funders, donors and the larger society. But working with youths is for me the essence of life. That’s my purpose, that’s my calling and my fulfillment. It has been most challenging at start because I ran my NGO for 7years without grant, office or partnerships. Many people told me to stop and do something else with my life, but I knew it was not just about what I was doing but about following my calling. Today the same people celebrate me every time we meet!
Maxwell: What are your convictions about the Nigerian nation?
Nigeria remains one the best countries of the world. Rich in all nameable resources, strategic in location, weather, peoples, culture and highly spiritual. Most of all, Nigeria is what has given me a name, an origin, a history, a nationality and the opportunity to grow and become the best I can be, (na inside Nigeria I recently found and married my sweet and dear princess!)…what will you say about such a nation? God Bless Nigeria. Yes, we may have challenges and difficulties, all of that offers opportunity for human productivity and creativity. If you don’t like Nigeria, please relocate to Rwanda or Somalia and be sure of one thing, I will take your place before you return!
Maxwell: What is your advice to young men who are in a hurry to travel abroad?
Here is my analysis, except you already have admission or a job waiting for you…I recommend you stay here and work out your destiny! It will cost you nearly N350,000 to travel to say America, believe me, if you are creative and focused, and start a business with that amount of money, in 5 years, you will be able to go to America on vacation and enjoy life! No body picks money on the street in those countries, US, UK Dubai, Greece, etc, I have visited all those countries and I tell you the truth, most of what you think about opportunities in those countries are not true! Even if you are in music, by the time you arrive South Africa or UK, you will join millions of young people with their demos also pursuing destiny. And they have an advantage over you because they already know that system, you have to start from the scratch…by the way, how many Nigerian musicians have made it abroad? Most time they make it here and then go there to maximize their opportunities! Have you been reading the news lately, with the global financial crisis many folks abroad are loosing their jobs, it also means that immigration laws shall become more stiff especially on job opportunities. Abeg stay here and succeed and then arrive the USA and someone will be at the airport with your name on a placard waiting for you and drive you to a good hotel and you have your respect, that’s what I enjoy!
Maxwell: What was your motivation to start Youngstars Foundation?
I grew up not accepting the standards of our society. I was not satisfied with the school system, I was not satisfied with the system of governance, I was further shocked to discover that here was a society that didn’t reckon, plan or see its youths as the bridge to the future and its continuity. And I said, I would start an organization that will help young people discover themselves and get involved in nation building so we can recreate the Nigeria of our dream. Every day I wake up, what I see in society further propels me to continue this work. This is one country that is yet to come to terms with the truth that the youths is her only point of reference in the future. It beats my imagination why the adult society thinks that way. Well, we are gradually changing it, as some of us are beginning to show and lead in unusuall leadership processes, they are forced to reckon with us….and so we must not stop being the best we can as young people!
Maxwell: Your comment and feelings about Barack Obama’s victory?
Oh…you mean my Uncle, President Obama…you know in Africa…family ties are still strong! Ha ha. Barack Obama wrote a book called the audacity of hope. I would say the audacious faith! That suicidal courage that he could be president, and that suicidal believe that all things are possible and that absolute trust that with God on your side…nothing can stop you gave birth to the Obama legacy. I tell people, it was more difficult to win over Hillary Clinton than to win Mc Cain! And I said it will take a miracle for Mc Cain to win but it will take supernatural miraclessssssss for Obama to win the presidency. Obama has extinguished all our excuses. Obama has shocked all our sentiments. Obama has trivialized all our experiences and circumstances. Obama has mocked all our disabilities. Obama means, if you can think it, you can make it happen. But you know the center of all of this…….? As a man thinks……..! watch out for every young person that is thinking! The world has changed! We have moved forward by a century. One man truly can make a difference. I love and pray for Obama everyday, because I see myself in him. I actually think we knew each other before we were born. To me, nothing is impossible as long as you have thought about it!
Maxwell: Who are your mentors and role models?
Jesus comes first in the list, at the age of 12 he was having intelligent conversation with professors and scholars! Can you beat that? I love Joseph too much, at 30 he became leader in a foreign land and by his wisdom saved the world! David, was a God chaser. Back to this present time, Dr. Martin Luther King remains my number one! Dr. Mandela for me is the African to watch! In Nigeria……..? I am still thinking sha!
Maxwell: Last words of advice to the Nigerian youth?
Sell your phone and buy a dream! With a reckless abandon, pursue your dream. Irrespective of your personal sentiments, ego, experiences, societal perspective of you and your background, don’t be distracted, just follow your dream. As a matter of fact, it is for all your excuses that you must succeed. Believe in your ability to be, act on your believe to become and stay there in the place of your ability until your dream come true, because Obama has shown us that dreams come true irrespective of the entire world!
© Interview by Ogaga E. Maxwell (ogagamaxwell@yahoo.com)...Dec 2008
Maxwell: May we meet you Sir?
My name is Kingsley N.T. Bangwell, Team Leader of Youngstars Development Initiative a.k.a Youngstars Foundation started since 1996. I also just recently became the resident pastor of Power City Intl Churches Jos Branch and also recently admitted into ASHOKA fellowship in June 2008.
Maxwell: What project are you currently involved in now?
Ha ha, there are projects in my mind and there are projects ongoing, lets talk about projects ongoing. DESPLAY which is our annually youth democracy and good governance training program which has been elevated by our funders to an African project. Youth Works Top 12 Awards which was a program that trained over 200 Nigeria youths in about 15 states within the last 12 months, and about 47 of the youths have done 220 activities reaching about 6,000 youths in Nigeria. Next year we shall organize an award for the best 12, its being funded by British Council. There is Youth Lens, a new project that is educating youths in 3 communities on the need to help government by monitoring the quality of work done by contractors in their localities. A website is on that will report monthly what is going on and we would send periodic reports to government. Then there is Shine Plateau Youth Tv show which we piloted in April for a quarter and its going back on air in January, every quarter a youth will win $1,000 after a contest of who has a good idea to implement under the 10 point Agenda of Gov. Jang, the winner gets the fund to implement a six months project. Then there is the Kingsley Bangwell Leadership Prize for Teenagers Starting Early which is my own personal way of giving back to the society. We worked in 8 schools with 100 kids teaching them leadership over a 5 weeks course, among them they were encouraged to do projects, and about 40 projects were recorded, from which I am giving 3 of them educational scholarship of $500, and $300 respectively (by the way you can donate towards it, abi?). Guess when the event will hold…..? January 20th 2009, to mark dr. marthin lurther kings day and swearing in of sen barrack obama first African American president of the United States of America! In future I will share with you projects still being incubated in my mind!
Maxwell: You just returned from a trip, visiting Greece what can you tell us?
Yes I was invited to speak during the 13th International Anti-Corruption Conference organized every 2 years by Transparency International. It was such a great privilege for me as a young person. I spoke on how corruption fosters violent conflicts, especially youth restiveness. Although I raised my concern that such an event of about 1500 participants and they were talking about developing the future, there was just a handful of youths there. I got lots of commendation, infact, someone from the audience said I would become the Ghandi of Africa. I also met with Mrs Waziri, the Chairman of EFCC, I also met with Peter Aigen Founder of Transparency International. It was a 4 day event, and I headed back home immediately after it.
Maxwell: You have been in youth development for some time, what have been your experience?
Hmmmmm, my experience is being captured in a book I am putting together that will also share my perspective about working with funders, donors and the larger society. But working with youths is for me the essence of life. That’s my purpose, that’s my calling and my fulfillment. It has been most challenging at start because I ran my NGO for 7years without grant, office or partnerships. Many people told me to stop and do something else with my life, but I knew it was not just about what I was doing but about following my calling. Today the same people celebrate me every time we meet!
Maxwell: What are your convictions about the Nigerian nation?
Nigeria remains one the best countries of the world. Rich in all nameable resources, strategic in location, weather, peoples, culture and highly spiritual. Most of all, Nigeria is what has given me a name, an origin, a history, a nationality and the opportunity to grow and become the best I can be, (na inside Nigeria I recently found and married my sweet and dear princess!)…what will you say about such a nation? God Bless Nigeria. Yes, we may have challenges and difficulties, all of that offers opportunity for human productivity and creativity. If you don’t like Nigeria, please relocate to Rwanda or Somalia and be sure of one thing, I will take your place before you return!
Maxwell: What is your advice to young men who are in a hurry to travel abroad?
Here is my analysis, except you already have admission or a job waiting for you…I recommend you stay here and work out your destiny! It will cost you nearly N350,000 to travel to say America, believe me, if you are creative and focused, and start a business with that amount of money, in 5 years, you will be able to go to America on vacation and enjoy life! No body picks money on the street in those countries, US, UK Dubai, Greece, etc, I have visited all those countries and I tell you the truth, most of what you think about opportunities in those countries are not true! Even if you are in music, by the time you arrive South Africa or UK, you will join millions of young people with their demos also pursuing destiny. And they have an advantage over you because they already know that system, you have to start from the scratch…by the way, how many Nigerian musicians have made it abroad? Most time they make it here and then go there to maximize their opportunities! Have you been reading the news lately, with the global financial crisis many folks abroad are loosing their jobs, it also means that immigration laws shall become more stiff especially on job opportunities. Abeg stay here and succeed and then arrive the USA and someone will be at the airport with your name on a placard waiting for you and drive you to a good hotel and you have your respect, that’s what I enjoy!
Maxwell: What was your motivation to start Youngstars Foundation?
I grew up not accepting the standards of our society. I was not satisfied with the school system, I was not satisfied with the system of governance, I was further shocked to discover that here was a society that didn’t reckon, plan or see its youths as the bridge to the future and its continuity. And I said, I would start an organization that will help young people discover themselves and get involved in nation building so we can recreate the Nigeria of our dream. Every day I wake up, what I see in society further propels me to continue this work. This is one country that is yet to come to terms with the truth that the youths is her only point of reference in the future. It beats my imagination why the adult society thinks that way. Well, we are gradually changing it, as some of us are beginning to show and lead in unusuall leadership processes, they are forced to reckon with us….and so we must not stop being the best we can as young people!
Maxwell: Your comment and feelings about Barack Obama’s victory?
Oh…you mean my Uncle, President Obama…you know in Africa…family ties are still strong! Ha ha. Barack Obama wrote a book called the audacity of hope. I would say the audacious faith! That suicidal courage that he could be president, and that suicidal believe that all things are possible and that absolute trust that with God on your side…nothing can stop you gave birth to the Obama legacy. I tell people, it was more difficult to win over Hillary Clinton than to win Mc Cain! And I said it will take a miracle for Mc Cain to win but it will take supernatural miraclessssssss for Obama to win the presidency. Obama has extinguished all our excuses. Obama has shocked all our sentiments. Obama has trivialized all our experiences and circumstances. Obama has mocked all our disabilities. Obama means, if you can think it, you can make it happen. But you know the center of all of this…….? As a man thinks……..! watch out for every young person that is thinking! The world has changed! We have moved forward by a century. One man truly can make a difference. I love and pray for Obama everyday, because I see myself in him. I actually think we knew each other before we were born. To me, nothing is impossible as long as you have thought about it!
Maxwell: Who are your mentors and role models?
Jesus comes first in the list, at the age of 12 he was having intelligent conversation with professors and scholars! Can you beat that? I love Joseph too much, at 30 he became leader in a foreign land and by his wisdom saved the world! David, was a God chaser. Back to this present time, Dr. Martin Luther King remains my number one! Dr. Mandela for me is the African to watch! In Nigeria……..? I am still thinking sha!
Maxwell: Last words of advice to the Nigerian youth?
Sell your phone and buy a dream! With a reckless abandon, pursue your dream. Irrespective of your personal sentiments, ego, experiences, societal perspective of you and your background, don’t be distracted, just follow your dream. As a matter of fact, it is for all your excuses that you must succeed. Believe in your ability to be, act on your believe to become and stay there in the place of your ability until your dream come true, because Obama has shown us that dreams come true irrespective of the entire world!
© Interview by Ogaga E. Maxwell (ogagamaxwell@yahoo.com)...Dec 2008
Monday 1 December 2008
Death toll in Nigeria clashes rises to around 400
JOS, Nigeria, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Residents delivered more bodies to the main mosque in the central Nigerian city of Jos on Sunday, bringing the death toll from two days of clashes between Muslim and Christian gangs to around 400 people. Rival ethnic and religious mobs have burned homes, shops, mosques and churches in fighting triggered by a disputed local election in a city at the crossroads of Nigeria's Muslim north and Christian south. It is the country's worst unrest for years. Murtala Sani Hashim, who has been registering the dead as they are brought to the city's main mosque, told Reuters he had listed 367 bodies and more were arriving. Ten corpses wrapped in blankets, two of them infants, lay behind him. A doctor at one of the city's main hospitals said he had received 25 corpses and 154 injured since the unrest began. "Gunshot wounds, machete injuries, those are the two main types," Dr Aboi Madaki, director of clinical services at Jos University Teaching Hospital, told Reuters. The overall toll was expected to be higher, with some victims already buried and others taken to other clinics. The violence appeared to die down on Sunday. Soldiers patrolled on foot and in jeeps to enforce a 24-hour curfew imposed on the worst-hit areas. People who ventured out walked with their hands in the air to show they were unarmed. "They are still picking up dead bodies outside. Some areas were not reachable until now," said Al Mansur, a 53-year-old farmer who said all the homes around his had been razed. Overturned and burnt-out vehicles littered the streets while several churches, a block of houses and an Islamic school in one neighbourhood were gutted by fire. The Red Cross said around 7,000 people had fled their homes and were sheltering in government buildings, an army barracks and religious centres. A senior police official said five neighbourhoods had been hit by unrest and 523 people detained. SIMMERING TENSIONS Nigeria's 140 million people are roughly equally split between Muslims and Christians and the two communities generally live peacefully side by side. But ethnic and religious tensions in the country's central "Middle Belt" have bubbled for years, rooted in resentment from indigenous minority groups, mostly Christian or animist, towards migrants and settlers from the Hausa-speaking Muslim north. The latest clashes between gangs of Muslim Hausas and mostly Christian youths began early on Friday and were provoked by a disputed local election after rumours spread that the ANPP party candidate backed by Hausas had lost the race to the ruling PDP. "It's religious. They were burning mosques and churches. They used politics as a cover-up," said Suleyman Yusuf, a Muslim from the Yoruba ethnic group, two of whose friends were killed. Yusuf was sheltering with some 4,000 men, women and children -- Christian and Muslim, and from a variety of ethnic groups -- in a national drug agency building set up by aid workers. Hundreds were killed in ethnic-religious fighting in Jos, the capital of Plateau state, in 2001. Hundreds more died in 2004 in clashes in Yelwa, also in Plateau, leading then-President Olusegun Obasanjo to declare an emergency. Unrest in the state has in the past triggered reprisal attacks between different ethnic and religious groups in other areas of the country. But the security forces appear to have reacted more quickly than in the past to contain the violence in Jos, with the army sending in reinforcements from neighbouring states. (For full Reuters Africa coverage and to have your say on the top issues, visit: http://africa. reuters.com/ ) (Writing by Nick Tattersall; Editing by Mark Trevelyan)
Le péage de la mort dans des désaccords du Nigéria se lève environ à 400Automatically translated into French thanks to WorldLingo JOS, Nigéria, 30 nov. (Reuters) - résidants a fourni plus de corps à la mosquée principale dans la ville nigérienne centrale de Jos dimanche, apportant le péage de la mort de deux jours de désaccords entre les troupes musulmanes et chrétiennes à environ 400 personnes. Les foules ethniques et religieuses rivales ont brûlé des maisons, des magasins, des mosquées et des églises dans le combat déclenché par une élection locale contestée dans une ville au carrefour du nord du Nigéria et des sud musulmans de chrétien. C'est le plus mauvais malaise du pays pendant des années. Murtala Sani Hashim, qui avait enregistré les morts pendant qu'ils sont apportés à la mosquée principale de la ville, a indiqué Reuters qu'il avait énuméré 367 corps et plus arrivaient. Dix cadavres enveloppés dans des couvertures, deux d'entre elles enfants en bas âge, configuration derrière lui. Un docteur à un des hôpitaux principaux de la ville a dit qu'il avait reçu 25 cadavres et 154 ont blessé puisque le malaise a commencé. Les « blessures de coup de fusil, dommages de machette, ceux sont les deux types principaux, » DR Aboi Madaki, directeur des services cliniques à l'hôpital de enseignement d'université de Jos, dit Reuters. On s'est attendu à ce que le péage global soit plus haut, avec quelques victimes déjà enterrées et d'autres portées à d'autres cliniques. La violence a semblé mourir vers le bas dimanche. Les soldats patrouillés à pied et dans des jeeps pour imposer un couvre-feu de 24 heures ont imposé aux secteurs les plus affectés. Peuplez qui risqué à sortir a marché avec leurs mains dans le ciel à l'exposition qu'elles étaient sans armes. « Ils sont cueillette immobile vers le haut des corps morts dehors. Quelques secteurs n'étaient pas accessibles jusqu'ici, « a dit Al Mansur, un fermier de 53 ans que dit toutes maisons autour du sien avaient été rasé. Les véhicules retournés et brûlés-dehors portée les rues tandis que plusieurs églises, un bloc de maisons et une école islamique dans un voisinage étaient étripés par le feu. La croix rouge dite autour de 7.000 personnes s'était sauvée leurs maisons et les abritait aux bâtiments de gouvernement, aux casernes d'une armée et aux centres religieux. Voisinages officiels de police aînée lesdits cinq avaient été frappés par le malaise et 523 personnes ont détenu. FERMENTANT Nigéria de TENSIONS le 140 millions de personnes sont rudement également dédoublés entre les musulmans et les chrétiens et les deux communautés vivent généralement paisiblement côte à côte. Mais les tensions ethniques et religieuses dans la ceinture « moyenne » du pays centrale ont bouillonné pendant des années, enraciné dans le ressentiment des groupes indigènes de minorité, la plupart du temps chrétien ou animiste, vers des migrants et des colons du nord musulman Hausa-parlant. Les derniers désaccords entre les troupes des Hausas musulmans et la plupart du temps les jeunesses chrétiennes ont commencé dès l'abord vendredi et ont été provoqués par une élection locale contestée après que les rumeurs aient écarté que la partie d'ANPP que le candidat a soutenue par Hausas avait perdu la course au PDP régnant. « Il est religieux. Ils étaient les mosquées et les églises brûlantes. Ils ont employé la politique en tant que cover-up, « a dit Suleyman Yusuf, un musulman du groupe ethnique de Yoruba, deux lesquels des amis ont été tués. Yusuf abritait avec environ 4.000 hommes, femmes et enfants -- Chrétien et musulmans, et d'une variété de groupes ethniques -- à l'agence de drogue de national un bâtiment a établi par des ouvriers d'aide. Des centaines ont été tuées dans le combat ethnique-religieux en Jos, le capital de l'état de plateau, en 2001. Les centaines de plus sont mortes en 2004 dans les désaccords dans Yelwa, aussi dans le plateau, principal alors-Président Olusegun Obasanjo pour déclarer une urgence. Le malaise dans l'état a dans les attaques déclenchées passées de représailles entre différents groupes ethniques et religieux dans d'autres secteurs du pays. Mais les forces de sécurité semblent avoir réagi plus rapidement que dans le passé pour contenir la violence en Jos, avec l'armée introduisant les renforts des états voisins. (Pour la pleine assurance de Reuters Afrique et pour avoir votre parole sur les questions supérieures, visite : http://africa. reuters.com/) (écriture par Nick Tattersall ; Édition par Mark Trevelyan)
El peaje de la muerte en los choques de Nigeria se levanta a alrededor 400Automatically translated into Spanish thanks to WorldLingo JOS, Nigeria, 30 Nov (Reuters) - residentes entregó más cuerpos a la mezquita principal en la ciudad nigeriana central de Jos el domingo, trayendo el peaje de la muerte a partir de dos días de choques entre las cuadrillas musulmanas y cristianas a alrededor 400 personas. Las multitudes étnicas y religiosas rivales se han quemado hogares, tiendas, mezquitas e iglesias en luchar accionado por una elección local disputada en una ciudad en la encrucijada del norte de Nigeria y del sur musulmanes del cristiano. Es el malestar peor del país por años. Murtala Sani Hashim, que ha estado colocando a muertos mientras que les traen a la mezquita principal de la ciudad, dijo Reuters que él había enumerado 367 cuerpos y más llegaban. Diez cadáveres envueltos en las mantas, dos de ellas infantes, endecha detrás de él. Un doctor a la una de los hospitales principales de la ciudad dijo que él había recibido 25 cadáveres y 154 dañados desde que el malestar comenzó. Las “heridas de tiro, lesiones del machete, ésas son los dos tipos principales,” dr Aboi Madaki, director de servicios clínicos en el hospital de enseñanza de la universidad de Jos, dicho Reuters. Se esperaba que el peaje total fuera más alto, con algunas víctimas enterradas ya y otras llevadas a otras clínicas. La violencia aparecía morir abajo el domingo. Los soldados patrullados a pie y en jeeps para hacer cumplir 24 toques de queda de la hora impusieron ante las áreas más afectadas. Pueble quién aventurada hacia fuera caminó con sus manos en el aire a la demostración que él era desarmado. “Son cosecha inmóvil encima de cuerpos muertos afuera. Algunas áreas no eran accesibles hasta este momento, “dijo el Al Mansur, granjero de 53 años que dicho todos los hogares alrededor el suyo habían sido razed. Los vehículos volcados y quemados-hacia fuera dejaron en desorden las calles mientras que varias iglesias, un bloque de casas y una escuela islámica en una vecindad fueron destripados por el fuego. La Cruz Roja dijo que alrededor 7.000 personas habían huido sus hogares y que los abrigaban en edificios del gobierno, cuarteles de un ejército y centros religiosos. Vecindades dichas oficiales del policía mayor las cinco habían sido golpeadas por el malestar y 523 personas detuvieron. Nigeria de las TENSIONES de SIMMERING 140 millones de personas de están partidos áspero igualmente entre los musulmanes y los cristianos y las dos comunidades viven generalmente pacífico de lado a lado. Pero las tensiones étnicas y religiosas en la correa “media” central del país han burbujeado por años, arraigado en el resentimiento de los grupos indígenas de la minoría, sobre todo cristiano o animista, hacia nómadas y colonos del norte musulmán de Hausa-discurso. Los choques más últimos entre las cuadrillas de Hausas musulmanes y sobre todo las juventudes cristianas comenzaron a principios de viernes y fueron provocados por una elección local disputada después de que las rumores se separaran que el partido de ANPP que el candidato movió hacia atrás por Hausas había perdido la raza al PDP predominante. “Es religioso. Eran mezquitas e iglesias ardientes. Utilizaron políticas como encubrimiento, “dijo Suleyman Yusuf, musulmán del grupo étnico del yoruba, dos que de amigos fueron matados. Yusuf abrigaba con unos 4.000 hombres, mujeres y niños -- Cristiano y musulmanes, y de una variedad de grupos étnicos -- en agencia de la droga del nacional un edificio instaló por los trabajadores de la ayuda. Los centenares fueron matados en luchar étnico-religioso en Jos, el capital del estado de la meseta, en 2001. Los centenares murieron más en 2004 en choques en Yelwa, también en la meseta, entonces-Presidente principal Olusegun Obasanjo para declarar una emergencia. El malestar en el estado tiene en los últimos ataques accionados de la represalia entre diversos grupos étnicos y religiosos en otras áreas del país. Pero las fuerzas de la seguridad aparecen haber reaccionado más rápidamente que en el pasado para contener la violencia en Jos, con el ejército enviando en refuerzos de estados vecinos. (Para la cobertura completa de Reuters África y tener su opinión en las ediciones de la tapa, visita: http://africa. reuters.com/) (escritura de Nick Tattersall; El corregir de Mark Trevelyan)
Il tributo di morte in Nigeria scontra gli aumenti ad intorno 400Automatically translated into Italian thanks to WorldLingo JOS, Nigeria, 30 nov. (Reuters) - residenti ha trasportato più corpi al mosque principale nella città nigeriana centrale di Jos la domenica, portare il tributo di morte da due giorni di si scontra fra i gruppi musulmani e cristiani ad intorno 400 genti. I mobs etnici e religiosi rivali hanno bruciato le sedi, i negozi, i mosques e le chiese nel combattimento innescato tramite un'elezione locale disputata in una città alla strada trasversale del nord della Nigeria e del sud musulmani del cristiano. È l'agitazione più difettosa del paese per gli anni. Murtala Sani Hashim, che sta registrando i morti mentre sono portati al mosque principale della città, ha detto a Reuters ch'aveva elencato 367 corpi e più stavano arrivando. Dieci corpses spostati in coperte, due di loro infanti, disposizione dietro lui. Un medico ad uno degli ospedali principali della città ha detto che aveva ricevuto 25 corpses e 154 feriti da quando l'agitazione ha cominciato. “Le ferite di Gunshot, le lesioni del machete, quelle sono i due tipi principali,„ Dott Aboi Madaki, direttore dei servizi clinici all'ospedale d'istruzione dell'università del Jos, detto a Reuters. Il tributo generale si è pensato che sia più alto, con alcune vittime già sepolte ed altre prese ad altre cliniche. La violenza è sembrato morire giù la domenica. I soldati perlustrati a piedi ed in jeep per fare rispettare un coprifuoco di 24 ore hanno imposto alle zone più affettate. Popoli chi rischiato fuori ha camminato con le loro mani nell'aria all'esposizione ch'erano unarmed. “Sono raccolto tranquillo sugli enti guasti all'esterno. Alcune zone non erano raggiungibili finora, “ha detto Al Mansur, un coltivatore di 53 anni che detto tutte le sedi intorno a suo erano state razed. I veicoli capovolti e bruciati-fuori figliata le vie mentre parecchie chiese, un blocco delle case e una scuola islamica in una vicinanza sono stati sventrati da fuoco. La croce rossa detta intorno a 7.000 genti aveva fuggito le loro sedi e stava riparando nelle costruzioni di governo, nei barracks dell'esercito e nei centri religiosi. Vicinanze dette ufficiali della polizia maggiore le cinque erano state colpite da agitazione e 523 genti hanno ritenuto. Della Nigeria di TENSIONAMENTI di SIMMERING 140 milione di persone sono spaccati approssimativamente ugualmente fra i musulmani ed i cristiani e le due Comunità vivono generalmente pacificamente parallelamente. Ma i tensionamenti etnici e religiosi in cinghia “centrale„ del paese centrale hanno bollito per gli anni, sradicato nel rancore dai gruppi indigeni di minoranza, principalmente cristiano o animist, verso i migranti ed i settlers dal nord musulmano Hausa-parlante. Il più ritardato si scontra fra i gruppi dei Hausas musulmani e principalmente le gioventù cristiane hanno cominciato nella fase iniziale venerdì e sono state provocate tramite un'elezione locale disputata dopo che le voci si spargessero che il partito che di ANPP il candidato ha sostenuto da Hausas aveva perso la corsa al PDP di regolamento. “È religioso. Erano mosques e chiese burning. Hanno usato le politiche come un cover-up, “ha detto Suleyman Yusuf, un musulmano dal gruppo etnico del Yoruba, due di cui degli amici sono stati uccisi. Yusuf stava riparando con circa 4.000 uomini, donne e bambini -- Cristiano e musulmani e da una varietà di gruppi etnici -- nell'agenzia della droga del cittadino una costruzione ha installato dagli operai del sussidio. Le centinaia sono state uccise nel combattimento etnico-religioso in Jos, il capitale del plateau dichiarano, in 2001. Le centinaia di più morte in 2004 dentro si scontrano in Yelwa, anche nel plateau, allora-Presidente principale Olusegun Obasanjo per dichiarare un'emergenza. L'agitazione nel dichiarare ha negli attacchi innescati passati di reprisal fra i gruppi etnici e religiosi differenti in altre zone del paese. Ma le forze di sicurezza sembrano reagire più rapidamente di nel passato per contenere la violenza in Jos, con l'esercito che introduce i rinforzi da vicino dichiara. (Per riempimento completo di Reuters Africa ed avere vostra opinione sulle edizioni della parte superiore, chiamata: http://africa. reuters.com/) (scrittura da Nick Tattersall; Pubblicando da Mark Trevelyan)
Todesabgabe im Nigeria Zusammentreffen steigt bis herum 400Automatically translated into German thanks to WorldLingo JOS, Nigeria, 30. Nov. (Reuters) - Bewohner lieferte mehr Körper an die Hauptmoschee in der zentralen nigerischen Stadt von Jos am Sonntag und holte herum 400 Leuten die Todesabgabe von zwei Tagen Zusammentreffen zwischen die moslemischen und christlichen Gruppen. Rivalisierender ethnischer und frommer Pöbel hat Häuser, Geschäfte gebrannt, Moscheen und Kirchen beim Kämpfen ausgelöst durch eine diskutierte lokale Wahl in einer Stadt an der Querstraße Nigerias von moslemischem Norden und von Christsüden. Es ist die schlechteste Ruhelosigkeit des Landes für Jahre. Murtala Sani Hashim, das die Toten registriert hat, während sie zur Hauptmoschee der Stadt geholt werden, erklärte Reuters, das er 367 Körper verzeichnet hatte und mehr kamen an. 10 Leichen aufgewickelt in Decken, zwei von ihnen Kinder, Lage hinter ihm. Ein Doktor bei einem der Hauptkrankenhäuser der Stadt sagte, daß er 25 Leichen empfangen hatte und 154 verletzten, da die Ruhelosigkeit anfing. „Schusswaffenwunden, Macheteverletzungen, die sind die zwei Hauptarten,“ Dr Aboi Madaki, der Direktor der klinischen Services an Jos Universitätsunterrichtendem Krankenhaus, Reuters erklärt. Die gesamte Abgabe wurde erwartet, um höher zu sein, wenn einigen Opfern, die bereits und andere begraben werden, zu anderen Kliniken genommen sind. Die Gewalttätigkeit schien, unten am Sonntag zu sterben. Soldaten patrouillierten auf Fuß und in den Jeeps, um eine 24stündige Sperrstunde zu erzwingen, die den aufs schlimmste geschlagensten Bereichen auferlegt wurde. Bevölkeren Sie, wem heraus riskiert mit ihren Händen in der Luft zum Erscheinen ging, das sie unbewaffnet waren. „Sie sind ruhiges Sammeln herauf tote Körper draußen. Etwas Bereiche waren nicht bis jetzt, „sagte Al Mansur, ein 53 Einjahreslandwirt erreichbar, der besagt alle Häuser um seins razed gewesen waren. Umgeworfene und gebrannte-heraus Träger verunreinigten die Straßen, während einige Kirchen, ein Block der Häuser und eine islamische Schule in einer Nachbarschaft durch Feuer ausgeweidet wurden. Das rote Kreuz, das um 7.000 Leute gesagt wurde, hatte ihre Häuser geflohen und in Regierung Gebäuden, Kasernen einer Armee und den frommen Mitten schützte. Waren amtliche besagte fünf Nachbarschaften der älteren Polizei von der Ruhelosigkeit und von 523 Leuten geschlagen worden, die zurückgehalten wurden. SIMMERING SPANNUNGEN Nigerias 140 Million Leute werden ungefähr gleichmäßig zwischen Moslems aufgespaltet und Christen und die zwei Gemeinschaften leben im Allgemeinen friedlich nebeneinander. Aber ethnische und fromme Spannungen im zentralen „mittleren Riemen“ des Landes haben für Jahre gesprudelt, verwurzelt im Groll von den eingeborenen Minoritätgruppen, meistens Christ oder Animist, in Richtung in Richtung den Wanderern und zu den Siedleren vom Hausa-sprechenden moslemischen Norden. Das neueste Zusammentreffen zwischen Gruppen der moslemischen Hausas und meistens christlicher Jugend fing früh am Freitag an und wurde durch eine diskutierte lokale Wahl erregt, nachdem Gerüchte verbreiteten, daß der ANPP Parteianwärter, der von Hausas unterstützt wurde, das Rennen zum regierenden PDP verloren hatte. „Es ist fromm. Sie waren brennende Moscheen und Kirchen. Sie verwendeten Politiken als cover-up, „sagte Suleyman Yusuf, ein Moslem von der ethnischen Gruppe des Yoruba, zwei von deren Freunden getötet wurden. Yusuf schützte mit ca. 4.000 Männern, Frauen und Kindern -- Christ und Moslems und von einer Vielzahl der ethnischen Gruppen -- in der Staatsangehörigdrogeagentur stellte ein Gebäude durch Hilfsmittelarbeiter auf. Hunderte wurden im ethnisch-frommen Kämpfen in Jos, das Kapital des Hochebenezustandes, 2001 getötet. Hunderte starben mehr 2004 im Zusammentreffen in Yelwa, auch in der Hochebene, führender DannPräsident Olusegun Obasanjo, um eine Dringlichkeit zu erklären. Ruhelosigkeit im Zustand hat in den letzten ausgelösten Repressalieangriffen zwischen unterschiedlichen ethnischen und frommen Gruppen in anderen Bereichen des Landes. Aber die Sicherheit Kräfte scheinen, als in der Vergangenheit schneller reagiert zu haben, zum der Gewalttätigkeit in Jos zu enthalten, wenn die Armee in Verstärkungen sendet, von benachbarten Zuständen. (Für volle Reuters Afrika Deckung und Ihr Sagen auf den Oberseite Ausgaben, Besuch haben: http://africa. reuters.com/) (Schreiben durch Nick Tattersall; Redigieren durch Mark Trevelyan)
O pedágio da morte em clashes de Nigéria levanta-se a ao redor 400Automatically translated into Portuguese thanks to WorldLingo JOS, Nigéria, novembro 30 (Reuters) - residentes entregou mais corpos ao mosque principal na cidade Nigerian central de Jos em domingo, trazendo o pedágio da morte de dois dias dos clashes entre grupos muçulmanos e Christian a ao redor 400 povos. Os mobs étnicos e religiosos rivais queimaram repousos, lojas, mosques e igrejas na luta provocada por uma eleição local disputada em uma cidade no crossroads do norte de Nigéria e do sul muçulmanos do cristão. É o unrest o mais mau do país por anos. Murtala Sani Hashim, que tem registado os mortos enquanto são trazidos ao mosque principal da cidade, disse Reuters que tinha alistado 367 corpos e mais estavam chegando. Dez corpses envolvidos nos cobertores, dois deles infantes, configuração atrás dele. Um doutor em um dos hospitais principais da cidade disse que tinha recebido 25 corpses e 154 feriram desde que o unrest começou. De “as feridas Gunshot, os ferimentos do machete, aqueles são os dois tipos principais,” Dr. Aboi Madaki, diretor de serviços clínicos no hospital ensinando da universidade de Jos, dito Reuters. O pedágio total esperou-se ser mais elevado, com algumas vítimas enterradas já e outras feitas exame a outras clínicas. A violência pareceu morrer para baixo em domingo. Os soldados patrulharam no pé e nos jipes para reforçar um curfew de 24 horas imposto nas áreas as mais worst-hit. Povoe quem arriscado para fora andou com suas mãos no ar à mostra que era unarmed. “São colheita imóvel acima dos corpos inoperantes fora. Algumas áreas não eram reachable até agora, “disse o Al Mansur, um fazendeiro de 53 year-old que dito todos os repousos em torno de his fossem razed. Os veículos virados e queimados-para fora desarrumaram as ruas quando diversas igrejas, um bloco das casas e uma escola Islamic em uma vizinhança gutted pelo fogo. A cruz vermelha dita em torno de 7.000 povos tinha fujido seus repousos e estava protegendo-os em edifícios do governo, em barracks de um exército e em centros religiosos. Vizinhanças ditas oficiais das polícias sênior as cinco tinham sido batidas pelo unrest e pelos 523 povos detidos. Povos de Nigéria das TENSÕES de SIMMERING 140 milhão são rachados aproximadamente ingualmente entre muçulmanos e os cristãos e as duas comunidades vivem geralmente pacificamente de lado a lado. Mas as tensões étnicas e religiosas na correia “média” central do país borbulharam por anos, enraizado no resentment dos grupos indígenos do minority, na maior parte cristão ou animist, para emigrantes e settlers do norte muçulmano Hausa-falador. Os clashes os mais atrasados entre grupos de Hausas muçulmanos e na maior parte juventudes Christian começaram cedo em sexta-feira e foram provocados por uma eleição local disputada depois que os boatos espalharam que o partido que de ANPP o candidato suportou por Hausas tinha perdido a raça ao PDP governando. “É religioso. Eram mosques e igrejas ardentes. Usaram a política como um cover-up, “disse Suleyman Yusuf, um muçulmano do grupo étnico do Yoruba, dois cujos de amigos foram matados. Yusuf estava protegendo com uns 4.000 homens, mulheres e crianças -- Cristão e muçulmanos, e de uma variedade de grupos étnicos -- na agência da droga do nacional um edifício ajustou-se acima por trabalhadores do dae (dispositivo automático de entrada). As centenas foram matadas na luta étnico-religiosa em Jos, o capital do estado do platô, em 2001. As centenas morreram mais em 2004 nos clashes em Yelwa, também no platô, então-Presidente principal Olusegun Obasanjo para declarar uma emergência. O Unrest no estado tem nos ataques provocados passados da represália entre grupos étnicos e religiosos diferentes em outras áreas do país. Mas as forças da segurança parecem ter reagido mais rapidamente do que no passado para conter a violência em Jos, com o exército que emite nos reforços dos estados neighbouring. (Para a cobertura cheia de Reuters África e para ter sua palavra nas edições do alto, visita: http://africa. reuters.com/) (escrita por Entalhe Tattersall; Editar por Marca Trevelyan)
Dödavgiften i Nigeria kolliderar löneförhöjningar till omkring 400Automatically translated into Swedish thanks to WorldLingo JOS Nigeria, Nov 30 (Reuters) - invånare levererade mer förkroppsligar till den huvudsakliga moskén i den nigerianska staden för centralen av Jos på söndag som kommer med dödavgiften från två dagar av sammandrabbningar mellan Muslim och kristna ligor till omkring 400 folk. Den rivaliserande person som tillhör en etnisk minoritet och religiösa folkhopar har bränt hem, shoppar, moskéer och kyrkor i stridighet som startas av ett omtvistat kommunalval i en stad på tvärgatorna av Nigeria Muslim nord och kristensöder. Det är landets värst oro för år. Murtala Sani Hashim, som har registrerat deadna, som de kommas med till stadens huvudsakliga moské, berättade Reuters som han hade listat 367 förkroppsligar, och mer ankom. Tio lik som slås in i filtar, två av dem spädbarn, lägger bak honom. En manipulera på ett av stadens huvudsakliga sjukhus sade att han hade mottagit 25 lik och 154 sårade, sedan oroen började. ”Sårar skotthållet, macheteskador, de är de två huvudsakliga typerna,” Dr Aboi Madaki, direktör av kliniskt servar på sjukhuset för Jos universitetarundervisning som berättas Reuters. Den total- avgiften förväntades för att vara högre, med några offer som begravdes redan, och andra som togs till andra kliniker. Våld verkade att dö besegrar på söndag. Soldater som patrullerades på fot och i jeeps för att upprätthålla ett 24 timmeutegångsförbud, lade på på de mest worst-hit områdena. Bemanna vågad vem ut gått med deras räcker i lufta till showen som de var unarmed. ”Är de stilla plockning upp dead förkroppsligar utanför. Några områden var inte åtkomliga till nu, ”sade Al Mansur, en årig bonde 53 som said alla hem runt om his hade raserats. Valt och brända-ut medel skräpade ner gatastunderna flera kyrkor, ett kvarter av hus, och ett islamiskt skolar i en neighbourhood var förstört avfyrar by. Röda koret som sades runt om 7.000 folk, hade flytt deras hem och beskyddade i regerings- byggnader, baracker för en armé, och klosterbrodern centrerar. Hade officiella said fem neighbourhoods för en hög polis slågits av den fördröjde oroen och 523 folk. PUTTRA SPÄNNINGS Nigeria 140 miljon delas folket ungefärligt lika mellan Muslims, och kristen och de två gemenskaperna bor allmänt peacefully jämsides. Men etniska och religiösa spänningar i landets central ”en mitt kuter” har bubblat för år, rotat i harm från infödda minoritetgrupper, mestadels kristen eller animist, in mot migranter och nybyggare från dentalande Muslim norden. De senaste sammandrabbningarna mellan ligor av Muslim Hausas och mestadels kristna ungdommar började tidig sort på fredag och provocerades av ett omtvistat kommunalval efter ryktespridning att ANPP-partikandidaten som drogs tillbaka av Hausas hade borttappadt racen till avgörandet PDP. ”Är det religiöst. De var brinns moskéer och kyrkor. De använde politik som ett cover-up, ”sade Suleyman Yusuf, en Muslim från Yorubafolkgruppen, två av vars vänner dödades. Yusuf beskyddade med några 4.000 manar, kvinnor och barn -- Kristen och Muslim, och från en variation av folkgrupper -- i en uppsättning för byggnad för medborgaredrogbyrå vid bistå upp arbetare. Hundreds dödades i person som tillhör en etnisk minoritet-klosterbrodern stridighet i Jos, huvudstaden av platån som var statlig, i 2001. Hundreds dog mer i 2004 i sammandrabbningar i Yelwa, också i platån, den ledande därefter-Presidenten Olusegun Obasanjo för att förklara ett nöd-. Oroen i det statligt har i de förgångna startade vedergällningattackerna mellan den olika person som tillhör en etnisk minoritet och religiösa grupper i andra områden av landet. Men säkerhetsstyrkorna verkar att ha reagerat snabbare, än i förflutnan som innehåller våld i Jos, med armén som överför i förstärkningar från neighbouring, påstår. (För full Reuters Afrika täckning och att ha din något att säga på det bästa utfärdar, besök: http://africa. reuters.com/) (handstil av Hack Tattersall; Att redigera by markerar Trevelyan),
Общее число погибших в clashes Нигерии поднимает до вокруг 400Automatically translated into Russian thanks to WorldLingo JOS, Нигерия, 30-ое нояб. (Reuters) - резиденты поставило больше тел к GLAVNой мечети в центральном нигерийском городе Jos на воскресенье, принося общее число погибших от 2 дней clashes между шатиями Muslim и Кристиан до вокруг 400 людей. Соперничающие этнические и вероисповедные mobs горели дома, магазины, мечети и церков в воевать вызванный оспоренный местныа выборы в городе на распутье севера Нигерии мусульманских и юга Кристиан. Будет unrest страны самым плохим на леты. Murtala Sani Hashim, которое регистрировало умерших по мере того как их приносят к мечети города GLAVNой, сказало Reuters, котор он перечислил 367 тел и больше приезжали. 10 трупов обернутых в одеялах, 2 из их младенцы, положение за им. Доктор на одном из стационаров города GLAVNых сказал он получило 25 поврежденных трупы и 154 в виду того что unrest начал. «Раны выстрела, ушибы machete, те будут 2 GLAVNыми типами,» Dr Aboi Madaki, директор клинических обслуживаний на стационаре университета Jos учя, сказанный Reuters. Была ы, что была общая пошлина более высока, при некоторые уже похороненные жертвы и другие принятые к другим клиникам. Показалось, что умер расправа вниз на воскресенье. Воины патрулированные on foot и в виллисах для того чтобы принудить 24-часовой curfew навели на worst-hit OBLASTях. Населите затеянное вне погулял с их руками в воздухе к выставке, котор они были unarmed. «Ими будет неподвижная рудоразборка вверх по мертвым телам снаружи. Некоторые OBLASTи не были reachable until now, «сказал Al Mansur, хуторянина 53 year-old который сказанн все дома вокруг его были razed. Опрокинутые и, котор ые-вне корабли засоряли улицы пока несколько церков, блок домов и исламская школа в одном районе были gutted пожаром. Красный Крест сказанный вокруг 7.000 людей исчез их дома и приютил в зданиях правительства, казармах армии и вероисповедных центрах. Районов старших полиций официальные сказанные 5 были ударены задержанными unrest и 523 людьми. Нигерии НАПРЯЖЕНИЙ SIMMERING 140 миллионов людей грубо равн разделены между Muslims и христианки и 2 общины вообще живут мирно side by side. Но этнические и вероисповедные напряжения в поясе страны центральном «среднем» клокочут на леты, после того как они укоренены в resentment от индигенных групп несовершеннолетия, главным образом Кристиан или animist, к переселенцам и поселенцам от Hausa-говоря мусульманского севера. Самые последние clashes между шатиями мусульманского Hausas и главным образом молодостями Кристиан начали early on пятницу и были спровоцированы оспоренный местныа выборы после того как молвы распространили что партия ANPP, котор выбранный подпер Hausas потеряла гонку к управляя PDP. «Оно вероисповедно. Они были горящими мечетями и церков. Они использовали политики как cover-up, «сказал Suleyman Yusuf, Muslim от этнические группы Yoruba, 2 друзей которого убил. Yusuf приютило с некоторыми 4.000 людьми, женщинами и дет -- Кристиан и Muslim, и от разнообразия этнические группы -- в агенство снадобья соотечественника здание установило вверх работниками помощи. Сотниы были убиты в этническ-вероисповедный воевать в Jos, столица положения плата, в 2001. Сотниы больше умерли в 2004 в clashes в Yelwa, также в плате, leading после этого-Президенте Olusegun Obasanjo для того чтобы объявить аварийную ситуацию. Unrest в положении имеет в прошлых вызванных нападениях репрессалии между по-разному этническими и вероисповедными группами в других RA1ONах страны. Но кажется, что реагируют силы безопасности более быстро чем в прошлом для того чтобы содержать расправу в Jos, при армия посылая в подкреплениях от соседнее государство. (Для полного охвата Reuters Африки и иметь ваше мнение на вопросах верхней части, посещение: http://africa. reuters.com/) (сочинительство Забоиной Tattersall; Редактировать Марк Trevelyan)
De tol van de dood in Nigeria botst stijgingen aan rond 400Automatically translated into Dutch thanks to WorldLingo JOS, Nigeria, 30 Nov. (Reuters) - de Ingezetenen leverden meer organismen aan de belangrijkste moskee in de centrale Nigeriaanse stad van Jos op Zondag, die de doodstol van twee dagen van conflicten brengt tussen Moslim en Christelijke troepen aan rond 400 mensen. Rivaliserende etnische en godsdienstige menigte hebben huizen, winkels gebrand, moskees en kerken in vechten teweeggebracht door een betwiste lokale verkiezing in een stad bij de kruispunten van het Christelijke zuiden van Nigeria het Moslimnoorden en. Het is jarenlang de slechtste onrust van het land. Murtala Sani Hashim, die de doden heeft geregistreerd aangezien zij aan de belangrijkste moskee van de stad worden gebracht, vertelde Reuters hij van 367 organismen een lijst had gemaakt en meer kwamen aan. Tien corpses die in dekens, twee wordt verpakt van hen zuigelingen, leggen achter hem. Een arts bij één van de belangrijkste ziekenhuizen van de stad zei hij 25 corpses had ontvangen en 154 verwondden aangezien de onrust begon. De „wonden van het revolverschot, macheteverwondingen, die zijn de twee belangrijke types,“ Dr. Aboi Madaki, directeur van de klinische diensten in Jos het Universitaire Ziekenhuis van het Onderwijs, Reuters vertelde. De algemene tol hoger zou zijn, met sommige reeds begraven slachtoffers en anderen genomen aan andere klinieken. Het geweld scheen om neer op Zondag te sterven. De militairen die te voet en in jeeps worden gepatrouilleerd om een avondklok van 24 uur af te dwingen legden aan de meest meest getroffen gebieden op. De mensen die opgestapt met hun waagden dienen de lucht in om te tonen zij unarmed waren. „Zij nemen buiten nog lijken op. Sommige gebieden waren niet tot nu toe bereikbaar, „bovengenoemde Al Mansur, een 53 éénjarigenlandbouwer die zei alle gehade huizen rond zijn razed. Ten val gebracht en branden-uit maakten een rommel de voertuigen van de straten terwijl verscheidene kerken, een blok van huizen en een Islamitische school in één buurt door brand werden uitgehaald. Het rode Kruis zei rond 7.000 mensen hun huizen waren ontvlucht en in overheidsgebouwen, een legerbarracks en godsdienstige centra beschut. Hogere politie officieel was bovengenoemd vijf buurten geraakt door vastgehouden onrust en 523 mensen. De SUDDERENDE miljoen mensen van Nigeria van SPANNINGEN 140 zijn ruwweg eveneens verdelen tussen Moslims en Christenen en de twee gemeenschappen leven over het algemeen vreedzaam zij aan zij. Maar de etnische en godsdienstige spanningen in de centrale „MiddenRiem“ van het land hebben jarenlang geborreld, wortel geschoten in wrok van inheemse meestal Christelijke minderheidsgroepen, of animist, naar migranten en kolonisten van het hausa-Sprekend Moslimnoorden. De recentste conflicten tussen troepen van MoslimHausas en meestal Christelijke jongeren begonnen vroeg Vrijdag en werden veroorzaakt door een betwiste lokale verkiezing na uitgespreide geruchten dat de ANPP partijkandidaat die door Hausas wordt gesteund de race aan de uitspraak PDP had verloren. „Het is godsdienstig. Zij brandden moskees en kerken. Zij gebruikten politiek als dekking-omhooggaand, „bovengenoemde Suleyman Yusuf, een Moslim van de etnische groep Yoruba, twee van van wie vrienden werden gedood. Yusuf beschutte met zowat 4.000 mannen, vrouwen en kinderen -- Christen en Moslim, en van een verscheidenheid van etnische groepen -- in een nationaal gebouw van het drugagentschap opgezet door hulparbeiders. Honderden werden gedood in hetgodsdienstige vechten in Jos, het kapitaal van de staat van het Plateau, in 2001. Honderden stierven meer in 2004 in conflicten in Yelwa, ook in Plateau, dat toen-voorzitter Olusegun Obasanjo ertoe brengt om een noodsituatie te verklaren. De onrust in de staat heeft in het verleden represailleaanvallen tussen verschillende etnische en godsdienstige groepen op ander gebied van het land teweeggebracht. Maar de veiligheidskrachten schijnen om sneller dan in het verleden gereageerd te hebben om het geweld in Jos, met het leger te bevatten dat in versterkingen van naburige staten verzendt. (Voor de volledige dekking van Reuters Afrika en uw op de hoogste kwesties, bezoek hebben zeggen: http://africa. reuters.com/) die (door Inkeping Tattersall schrijft; Het uitgeven door Teken Trevelyan)
موت يرتفع مكس في نيجيريا صدامات إلى حوالي 400Automatically translated into Arabic thanks to WorldLingo سلّم [جوس], نيجيريا, نوفمبر - تشرين الثّاني 30 ([ريوترس]) - مقيمات كثير أجسام إلى المسجد رئيسيّة في المدينة مركزية نيجيريّة [جوس] في يوم الأحد, يحضر الموت مكس من اثنان أيام الصدامات بين مسلمة ومجموعة مسيحية إلى حوالي 400 الناس. منافسة عرقيّة وقد أحرق تجمهر دينيّة منازل, متاجر, مساجد وكنائس في يتنازع يطلق ب يتنازع إنتخاب محلّية في مدينة في المفترق طريق من نيجيريا مسلمة شمال ومسيحية جنوب. هو البلاد إضطراب مريضة لسنون. قال [مورتلا] [سني] هاشم, الذي يتلقّى يكون يسجّل الموتى بما أنّ هم يكون أحضرت إلى المدينة مسجد رئيسيّة, [ريوترس] هو كان قد عدّل 367 أجسام وأكثر كان وصل. عشرة أجثاث يلفّ في أغطية, اثنان من هم أطفال, وضع تضاريس خلف ه. قال دكتورة في واحدة من المدينة مستشفيات رئيسيّة هو كان قد استلم 25 أجثاث و154 يجرح بما أنّ الإضطراب بدأ. "[غنشوت وووند], منجل إصابات, أنّ الاثنان أنواع رئيسيّة," دكتورة [أبوي] [مدكي], مديرة من خدمات سريريّة في [جوس] جامعة يعلم مستشفى, يقال [ريوترس]. توقّعت المكس إجماليّة كان أن يكون [هيغر], مع بعض ضحايا سابقا يدفن وأخرى يؤخذ إلى أخرى مصحة. ظهر العنف أن يموت إلى أسفل في يوم الأحد. فرض جنديات [بترولّد] [أن فووت] وفي عربة جيب أن ينفذ حالة منع تجوّل [24-هوور] على المناطق [وورست-هيت]. عمّرت الذي يجازف خارجا مشى مع أياديهم في الهواء إلى عرض هم كانوا [أونرمد]. "هم إنتقاء ساكنة فوق أجسام ميّتة في الخارج. [ب] بعض مناطق لم [رشبل] [أونتيل نوو], "قال [أل] منصور, 53 [ير-ولد] مزارعة الذي يقول [ألّ ث] منازل حول خاصّتي كانوا قد كانوا هدّم. يقلب وغطّى [بورنت-ووت] عربات الشوارع بينما عدّة كنائس, قالب المنازل ومدرسة [إيسلميك] في واحدة جوار كان أخرجت بنار. كان ال [رد كروسّ] يقال حول 7,000 الناس قد هرب منازلهم وكان أوى في حكومة بنايات, جيش ثكنات و [سنترس] دينيّة. شرطة كبريات رسميّة يقول ضربت خمسة جوارات تلقّى يكون بإضطراب و523 الناس احتجزوا. [سمّرينغ] [تنسونس] نيجيريا 140 انقسمت [ميلّيون بيوبل] تقريبا بالتّساوي بين [موسليم] ومسيحيات والاثنان جماعات عموما يعيشون سلميّا [سد بي سد]. غير أنّ عرقيّة وقد بقبق [تنسونس] دينيّة في البلاد مركزية "حزام سير متوسّطة" لسنون, يرسّخ في إمتعاض من محلّية أقلية مجموعة, في الأغلب مسيحية أو [أنيميست], نحو مهاجرات ومستوطنات من ال [هوس-سبكينغ] شمال مسلمة. بدأ الصدامات متأخّرة بين مجموعة من [هوسس] مسلمة وفي الأغلب شباب مسيحية [إرلي ون] يوم الجمعة وكان استثرت ب يتنازع إنتخاب محلّية عقب [روموور] نشروا أنّ ال [أنبّ] حزب مرشح يساعد ب [هوسس] كان قد خسر الجنس إلى ال يحكم [بدب]. "هو دينيّة. هم كانوا مشتعلة مساجد وكنائس. قال هم استعملوا سياسة ك [كفر-وب], "[سولمن] [يوسوف], [موسليم] من ال [يوروبا] مجموعة عرقيّة, اثنان من الذي صديقات كان قتلت. أوى [يوسوف] كان مع بعض 4,000 رجال, نساء وأطفال -- مسيحية و [موسليم], ومن تشكيل من مجموعة عرقيّة -- في مواطنة عقار وكالة ثبت بناية فوق بمعونة عاملات. قتلت مئات كان في [إثنيك-رليجووس] يتنازع في [جوس], الرأس مال من نجد دولة, في 2001. مات مئات أكثر في 2004 في صدامات في [يلوا], أيضا في نجد, [ثن-برسدنت] رئيسيّة [ألوسغن] [أبسنجو] أن يفيد طارئ. يتلقّى إضطراب في الدولة في السابقة يطلق إنتقام هجوم بين مختلفة عرقيّة ومجموعة دينيّة في أخرى مناطق من البلد. غير أنّ الأمن يظهر قوات أن يتلقّى تجاوبت أكثر سريعا من في الماض أن يحتوي العنف في [جوس], مع الجيش يرسل في تقوية من دول مجاورة. يتلقّى (ل يشبع [ريوترس] إفريقيا تغطية وأن رأيك على الأعلى إصدارات, زيارة: http://africa. reuters.com/) (كتابة ب [نيك] [تتّرسلّ]; يحرّر ب [مرك] [ترفلن])
Le péage de la mort dans des désaccords du Nigéria se lève environ à 400Automatically translated into French thanks to WorldLingo JOS, Nigéria, 30 nov. (Reuters) - résidants a fourni plus de corps à la mosquée principale dans la ville nigérienne centrale de Jos dimanche, apportant le péage de la mort de deux jours de désaccords entre les troupes musulmanes et chrétiennes à environ 400 personnes. Les foules ethniques et religieuses rivales ont brûlé des maisons, des magasins, des mosquées et des églises dans le combat déclenché par une élection locale contestée dans une ville au carrefour du nord du Nigéria et des sud musulmans de chrétien. C'est le plus mauvais malaise du pays pendant des années. Murtala Sani Hashim, qui avait enregistré les morts pendant qu'ils sont apportés à la mosquée principale de la ville, a indiqué Reuters qu'il avait énuméré 367 corps et plus arrivaient. Dix cadavres enveloppés dans des couvertures, deux d'entre elles enfants en bas âge, configuration derrière lui. Un docteur à un des hôpitaux principaux de la ville a dit qu'il avait reçu 25 cadavres et 154 ont blessé puisque le malaise a commencé. Les « blessures de coup de fusil, dommages de machette, ceux sont les deux types principaux, » DR Aboi Madaki, directeur des services cliniques à l'hôpital de enseignement d'université de Jos, dit Reuters. On s'est attendu à ce que le péage global soit plus haut, avec quelques victimes déjà enterrées et d'autres portées à d'autres cliniques. La violence a semblé mourir vers le bas dimanche. Les soldats patrouillés à pied et dans des jeeps pour imposer un couvre-feu de 24 heures ont imposé aux secteurs les plus affectés. Peuplez qui risqué à sortir a marché avec leurs mains dans le ciel à l'exposition qu'elles étaient sans armes. « Ils sont cueillette immobile vers le haut des corps morts dehors. Quelques secteurs n'étaient pas accessibles jusqu'ici, « a dit Al Mansur, un fermier de 53 ans que dit toutes maisons autour du sien avaient été rasé. Les véhicules retournés et brûlés-dehors portée les rues tandis que plusieurs églises, un bloc de maisons et une école islamique dans un voisinage étaient étripés par le feu. La croix rouge dite autour de 7.000 personnes s'était sauvée leurs maisons et les abritait aux bâtiments de gouvernement, aux casernes d'une armée et aux centres religieux. Voisinages officiels de police aînée lesdits cinq avaient été frappés par le malaise et 523 personnes ont détenu. FERMENTANT Nigéria de TENSIONS le 140 millions de personnes sont rudement également dédoublés entre les musulmans et les chrétiens et les deux communautés vivent généralement paisiblement côte à côte. Mais les tensions ethniques et religieuses dans la ceinture « moyenne » du pays centrale ont bouillonné pendant des années, enraciné dans le ressentiment des groupes indigènes de minorité, la plupart du temps chrétien ou animiste, vers des migrants et des colons du nord musulman Hausa-parlant. Les derniers désaccords entre les troupes des Hausas musulmans et la plupart du temps les jeunesses chrétiennes ont commencé dès l'abord vendredi et ont été provoqués par une élection locale contestée après que les rumeurs aient écarté que la partie d'ANPP que le candidat a soutenue par Hausas avait perdu la course au PDP régnant. « Il est religieux. Ils étaient les mosquées et les églises brûlantes. Ils ont employé la politique en tant que cover-up, « a dit Suleyman Yusuf, un musulman du groupe ethnique de Yoruba, deux lesquels des amis ont été tués. Yusuf abritait avec environ 4.000 hommes, femmes et enfants -- Chrétien et musulmans, et d'une variété de groupes ethniques -- à l'agence de drogue de national un bâtiment a établi par des ouvriers d'aide. Des centaines ont été tuées dans le combat ethnique-religieux en Jos, le capital de l'état de plateau, en 2001. Les centaines de plus sont mortes en 2004 dans les désaccords dans Yelwa, aussi dans le plateau, principal alors-Président Olusegun Obasanjo pour déclarer une urgence. Le malaise dans l'état a dans les attaques déclenchées passées de représailles entre différents groupes ethniques et religieux dans d'autres secteurs du pays. Mais les forces de sécurité semblent avoir réagi plus rapidement que dans le passé pour contenir la violence en Jos, avec l'armée introduisant les renforts des états voisins. (Pour la pleine assurance de Reuters Afrique et pour avoir votre parole sur les questions supérieures, visite : http://africa. reuters.com/) (écriture par Nick Tattersall ; Édition par Mark Trevelyan)
El peaje de la muerte en los choques de Nigeria se levanta a alrededor 400Automatically translated into Spanish thanks to WorldLingo JOS, Nigeria, 30 Nov (Reuters) - residentes entregó más cuerpos a la mezquita principal en la ciudad nigeriana central de Jos el domingo, trayendo el peaje de la muerte a partir de dos días de choques entre las cuadrillas musulmanas y cristianas a alrededor 400 personas. Las multitudes étnicas y religiosas rivales se han quemado hogares, tiendas, mezquitas e iglesias en luchar accionado por una elección local disputada en una ciudad en la encrucijada del norte de Nigeria y del sur musulmanes del cristiano. Es el malestar peor del país por años. Murtala Sani Hashim, que ha estado colocando a muertos mientras que les traen a la mezquita principal de la ciudad, dijo Reuters que él había enumerado 367 cuerpos y más llegaban. Diez cadáveres envueltos en las mantas, dos de ellas infantes, endecha detrás de él. Un doctor a la una de los hospitales principales de la ciudad dijo que él había recibido 25 cadáveres y 154 dañados desde que el malestar comenzó. Las “heridas de tiro, lesiones del machete, ésas son los dos tipos principales,” dr Aboi Madaki, director de servicios clínicos en el hospital de enseñanza de la universidad de Jos, dicho Reuters. Se esperaba que el peaje total fuera más alto, con algunas víctimas enterradas ya y otras llevadas a otras clínicas. La violencia aparecía morir abajo el domingo. Los soldados patrullados a pie y en jeeps para hacer cumplir 24 toques de queda de la hora impusieron ante las áreas más afectadas. Pueble quién aventurada hacia fuera caminó con sus manos en el aire a la demostración que él era desarmado. “Son cosecha inmóvil encima de cuerpos muertos afuera. Algunas áreas no eran accesibles hasta este momento, “dijo el Al Mansur, granjero de 53 años que dicho todos los hogares alrededor el suyo habían sido razed. Los vehículos volcados y quemados-hacia fuera dejaron en desorden las calles mientras que varias iglesias, un bloque de casas y una escuela islámica en una vecindad fueron destripados por el fuego. La Cruz Roja dijo que alrededor 7.000 personas habían huido sus hogares y que los abrigaban en edificios del gobierno, cuarteles de un ejército y centros religiosos. Vecindades dichas oficiales del policía mayor las cinco habían sido golpeadas por el malestar y 523 personas detuvieron. Nigeria de las TENSIONES de SIMMERING 140 millones de personas de están partidos áspero igualmente entre los musulmanes y los cristianos y las dos comunidades viven generalmente pacífico de lado a lado. Pero las tensiones étnicas y religiosas en la correa “media” central del país han burbujeado por años, arraigado en el resentimiento de los grupos indígenas de la minoría, sobre todo cristiano o animista, hacia nómadas y colonos del norte musulmán de Hausa-discurso. Los choques más últimos entre las cuadrillas de Hausas musulmanes y sobre todo las juventudes cristianas comenzaron a principios de viernes y fueron provocados por una elección local disputada después de que las rumores se separaran que el partido de ANPP que el candidato movió hacia atrás por Hausas había perdido la raza al PDP predominante. “Es religioso. Eran mezquitas e iglesias ardientes. Utilizaron políticas como encubrimiento, “dijo Suleyman Yusuf, musulmán del grupo étnico del yoruba, dos que de amigos fueron matados. Yusuf abrigaba con unos 4.000 hombres, mujeres y niños -- Cristiano y musulmanes, y de una variedad de grupos étnicos -- en agencia de la droga del nacional un edificio instaló por los trabajadores de la ayuda. Los centenares fueron matados en luchar étnico-religioso en Jos, el capital del estado de la meseta, en 2001. Los centenares murieron más en 2004 en choques en Yelwa, también en la meseta, entonces-Presidente principal Olusegun Obasanjo para declarar una emergencia. El malestar en el estado tiene en los últimos ataques accionados de la represalia entre diversos grupos étnicos y religiosos en otras áreas del país. Pero las fuerzas de la seguridad aparecen haber reaccionado más rápidamente que en el pasado para contener la violencia en Jos, con el ejército enviando en refuerzos de estados vecinos. (Para la cobertura completa de Reuters África y tener su opinión en las ediciones de la tapa, visita: http://africa. reuters.com/) (escritura de Nick Tattersall; El corregir de Mark Trevelyan)
Il tributo di morte in Nigeria scontra gli aumenti ad intorno 400Automatically translated into Italian thanks to WorldLingo JOS, Nigeria, 30 nov. (Reuters) - residenti ha trasportato più corpi al mosque principale nella città nigeriana centrale di Jos la domenica, portare il tributo di morte da due giorni di si scontra fra i gruppi musulmani e cristiani ad intorno 400 genti. I mobs etnici e religiosi rivali hanno bruciato le sedi, i negozi, i mosques e le chiese nel combattimento innescato tramite un'elezione locale disputata in una città alla strada trasversale del nord della Nigeria e del sud musulmani del cristiano. È l'agitazione più difettosa del paese per gli anni. Murtala Sani Hashim, che sta registrando i morti mentre sono portati al mosque principale della città, ha detto a Reuters ch'aveva elencato 367 corpi e più stavano arrivando. Dieci corpses spostati in coperte, due di loro infanti, disposizione dietro lui. Un medico ad uno degli ospedali principali della città ha detto che aveva ricevuto 25 corpses e 154 feriti da quando l'agitazione ha cominciato. “Le ferite di Gunshot, le lesioni del machete, quelle sono i due tipi principali,„ Dott Aboi Madaki, direttore dei servizi clinici all'ospedale d'istruzione dell'università del Jos, detto a Reuters. Il tributo generale si è pensato che sia più alto, con alcune vittime già sepolte ed altre prese ad altre cliniche. La violenza è sembrato morire giù la domenica. I soldati perlustrati a piedi ed in jeep per fare rispettare un coprifuoco di 24 ore hanno imposto alle zone più affettate. Popoli chi rischiato fuori ha camminato con le loro mani nell'aria all'esposizione ch'erano unarmed. “Sono raccolto tranquillo sugli enti guasti all'esterno. Alcune zone non erano raggiungibili finora, “ha detto Al Mansur, un coltivatore di 53 anni che detto tutte le sedi intorno a suo erano state razed. I veicoli capovolti e bruciati-fuori figliata le vie mentre parecchie chiese, un blocco delle case e una scuola islamica in una vicinanza sono stati sventrati da fuoco. La croce rossa detta intorno a 7.000 genti aveva fuggito le loro sedi e stava riparando nelle costruzioni di governo, nei barracks dell'esercito e nei centri religiosi. Vicinanze dette ufficiali della polizia maggiore le cinque erano state colpite da agitazione e 523 genti hanno ritenuto. Della Nigeria di TENSIONAMENTI di SIMMERING 140 milione di persone sono spaccati approssimativamente ugualmente fra i musulmani ed i cristiani e le due Comunità vivono generalmente pacificamente parallelamente. Ma i tensionamenti etnici e religiosi in cinghia “centrale„ del paese centrale hanno bollito per gli anni, sradicato nel rancore dai gruppi indigeni di minoranza, principalmente cristiano o animist, verso i migranti ed i settlers dal nord musulmano Hausa-parlante. Il più ritardato si scontra fra i gruppi dei Hausas musulmani e principalmente le gioventù cristiane hanno cominciato nella fase iniziale venerdì e sono state provocate tramite un'elezione locale disputata dopo che le voci si spargessero che il partito che di ANPP il candidato ha sostenuto da Hausas aveva perso la corsa al PDP di regolamento. “È religioso. Erano mosques e chiese burning. Hanno usato le politiche come un cover-up, “ha detto Suleyman Yusuf, un musulmano dal gruppo etnico del Yoruba, due di cui degli amici sono stati uccisi. Yusuf stava riparando con circa 4.000 uomini, donne e bambini -- Cristiano e musulmani e da una varietà di gruppi etnici -- nell'agenzia della droga del cittadino una costruzione ha installato dagli operai del sussidio. Le centinaia sono state uccise nel combattimento etnico-religioso in Jos, il capitale del plateau dichiarano, in 2001. Le centinaia di più morte in 2004 dentro si scontrano in Yelwa, anche nel plateau, allora-Presidente principale Olusegun Obasanjo per dichiarare un'emergenza. L'agitazione nel dichiarare ha negli attacchi innescati passati di reprisal fra i gruppi etnici e religiosi differenti in altre zone del paese. Ma le forze di sicurezza sembrano reagire più rapidamente di nel passato per contenere la violenza in Jos, con l'esercito che introduce i rinforzi da vicino dichiara. (Per riempimento completo di Reuters Africa ed avere vostra opinione sulle edizioni della parte superiore, chiamata: http://africa. reuters.com/) (scrittura da Nick Tattersall; Pubblicando da Mark Trevelyan)
Todesabgabe im Nigeria Zusammentreffen steigt bis herum 400Automatically translated into German thanks to WorldLingo JOS, Nigeria, 30. Nov. (Reuters) - Bewohner lieferte mehr Körper an die Hauptmoschee in der zentralen nigerischen Stadt von Jos am Sonntag und holte herum 400 Leuten die Todesabgabe von zwei Tagen Zusammentreffen zwischen die moslemischen und christlichen Gruppen. Rivalisierender ethnischer und frommer Pöbel hat Häuser, Geschäfte gebrannt, Moscheen und Kirchen beim Kämpfen ausgelöst durch eine diskutierte lokale Wahl in einer Stadt an der Querstraße Nigerias von moslemischem Norden und von Christsüden. Es ist die schlechteste Ruhelosigkeit des Landes für Jahre. Murtala Sani Hashim, das die Toten registriert hat, während sie zur Hauptmoschee der Stadt geholt werden, erklärte Reuters, das er 367 Körper verzeichnet hatte und mehr kamen an. 10 Leichen aufgewickelt in Decken, zwei von ihnen Kinder, Lage hinter ihm. Ein Doktor bei einem der Hauptkrankenhäuser der Stadt sagte, daß er 25 Leichen empfangen hatte und 154 verletzten, da die Ruhelosigkeit anfing. „Schusswaffenwunden, Macheteverletzungen, die sind die zwei Hauptarten,“ Dr Aboi Madaki, der Direktor der klinischen Services an Jos Universitätsunterrichtendem Krankenhaus, Reuters erklärt. Die gesamte Abgabe wurde erwartet, um höher zu sein, wenn einigen Opfern, die bereits und andere begraben werden, zu anderen Kliniken genommen sind. Die Gewalttätigkeit schien, unten am Sonntag zu sterben. Soldaten patrouillierten auf Fuß und in den Jeeps, um eine 24stündige Sperrstunde zu erzwingen, die den aufs schlimmste geschlagensten Bereichen auferlegt wurde. Bevölkeren Sie, wem heraus riskiert mit ihren Händen in der Luft zum Erscheinen ging, das sie unbewaffnet waren. „Sie sind ruhiges Sammeln herauf tote Körper draußen. Etwas Bereiche waren nicht bis jetzt, „sagte Al Mansur, ein 53 Einjahreslandwirt erreichbar, der besagt alle Häuser um seins razed gewesen waren. Umgeworfene und gebrannte-heraus Träger verunreinigten die Straßen, während einige Kirchen, ein Block der Häuser und eine islamische Schule in einer Nachbarschaft durch Feuer ausgeweidet wurden. Das rote Kreuz, das um 7.000 Leute gesagt wurde, hatte ihre Häuser geflohen und in Regierung Gebäuden, Kasernen einer Armee und den frommen Mitten schützte. Waren amtliche besagte fünf Nachbarschaften der älteren Polizei von der Ruhelosigkeit und von 523 Leuten geschlagen worden, die zurückgehalten wurden. SIMMERING SPANNUNGEN Nigerias 140 Million Leute werden ungefähr gleichmäßig zwischen Moslems aufgespaltet und Christen und die zwei Gemeinschaften leben im Allgemeinen friedlich nebeneinander. Aber ethnische und fromme Spannungen im zentralen „mittleren Riemen“ des Landes haben für Jahre gesprudelt, verwurzelt im Groll von den eingeborenen Minoritätgruppen, meistens Christ oder Animist, in Richtung in Richtung den Wanderern und zu den Siedleren vom Hausa-sprechenden moslemischen Norden. Das neueste Zusammentreffen zwischen Gruppen der moslemischen Hausas und meistens christlicher Jugend fing früh am Freitag an und wurde durch eine diskutierte lokale Wahl erregt, nachdem Gerüchte verbreiteten, daß der ANPP Parteianwärter, der von Hausas unterstützt wurde, das Rennen zum regierenden PDP verloren hatte. „Es ist fromm. Sie waren brennende Moscheen und Kirchen. Sie verwendeten Politiken als cover-up, „sagte Suleyman Yusuf, ein Moslem von der ethnischen Gruppe des Yoruba, zwei von deren Freunden getötet wurden. Yusuf schützte mit ca. 4.000 Männern, Frauen und Kindern -- Christ und Moslems und von einer Vielzahl der ethnischen Gruppen -- in der Staatsangehörigdrogeagentur stellte ein Gebäude durch Hilfsmittelarbeiter auf. Hunderte wurden im ethnisch-frommen Kämpfen in Jos, das Kapital des Hochebenezustandes, 2001 getötet. Hunderte starben mehr 2004 im Zusammentreffen in Yelwa, auch in der Hochebene, führender DannPräsident Olusegun Obasanjo, um eine Dringlichkeit zu erklären. Ruhelosigkeit im Zustand hat in den letzten ausgelösten Repressalieangriffen zwischen unterschiedlichen ethnischen und frommen Gruppen in anderen Bereichen des Landes. Aber die Sicherheit Kräfte scheinen, als in der Vergangenheit schneller reagiert zu haben, zum der Gewalttätigkeit in Jos zu enthalten, wenn die Armee in Verstärkungen sendet, von benachbarten Zuständen. (Für volle Reuters Afrika Deckung und Ihr Sagen auf den Oberseite Ausgaben, Besuch haben: http://africa. reuters.com/) (Schreiben durch Nick Tattersall; Redigieren durch Mark Trevelyan)
O pedágio da morte em clashes de Nigéria levanta-se a ao redor 400Automatically translated into Portuguese thanks to WorldLingo JOS, Nigéria, novembro 30 (Reuters) - residentes entregou mais corpos ao mosque principal na cidade Nigerian central de Jos em domingo, trazendo o pedágio da morte de dois dias dos clashes entre grupos muçulmanos e Christian a ao redor 400 povos. Os mobs étnicos e religiosos rivais queimaram repousos, lojas, mosques e igrejas na luta provocada por uma eleição local disputada em uma cidade no crossroads do norte de Nigéria e do sul muçulmanos do cristão. É o unrest o mais mau do país por anos. Murtala Sani Hashim, que tem registado os mortos enquanto são trazidos ao mosque principal da cidade, disse Reuters que tinha alistado 367 corpos e mais estavam chegando. Dez corpses envolvidos nos cobertores, dois deles infantes, configuração atrás dele. Um doutor em um dos hospitais principais da cidade disse que tinha recebido 25 corpses e 154 feriram desde que o unrest começou. De “as feridas Gunshot, os ferimentos do machete, aqueles são os dois tipos principais,” Dr. Aboi Madaki, diretor de serviços clínicos no hospital ensinando da universidade de Jos, dito Reuters. O pedágio total esperou-se ser mais elevado, com algumas vítimas enterradas já e outras feitas exame a outras clínicas. A violência pareceu morrer para baixo em domingo. Os soldados patrulharam no pé e nos jipes para reforçar um curfew de 24 horas imposto nas áreas as mais worst-hit. Povoe quem arriscado para fora andou com suas mãos no ar à mostra que era unarmed. “São colheita imóvel acima dos corpos inoperantes fora. Algumas áreas não eram reachable até agora, “disse o Al Mansur, um fazendeiro de 53 year-old que dito todos os repousos em torno de his fossem razed. Os veículos virados e queimados-para fora desarrumaram as ruas quando diversas igrejas, um bloco das casas e uma escola Islamic em uma vizinhança gutted pelo fogo. A cruz vermelha dita em torno de 7.000 povos tinha fujido seus repousos e estava protegendo-os em edifícios do governo, em barracks de um exército e em centros religiosos. Vizinhanças ditas oficiais das polícias sênior as cinco tinham sido batidas pelo unrest e pelos 523 povos detidos. Povos de Nigéria das TENSÕES de SIMMERING 140 milhão são rachados aproximadamente ingualmente entre muçulmanos e os cristãos e as duas comunidades vivem geralmente pacificamente de lado a lado. Mas as tensões étnicas e religiosas na correia “média” central do país borbulharam por anos, enraizado no resentment dos grupos indígenos do minority, na maior parte cristão ou animist, para emigrantes e settlers do norte muçulmano Hausa-falador. Os clashes os mais atrasados entre grupos de Hausas muçulmanos e na maior parte juventudes Christian começaram cedo em sexta-feira e foram provocados por uma eleição local disputada depois que os boatos espalharam que o partido que de ANPP o candidato suportou por Hausas tinha perdido a raça ao PDP governando. “É religioso. Eram mosques e igrejas ardentes. Usaram a política como um cover-up, “disse Suleyman Yusuf, um muçulmano do grupo étnico do Yoruba, dois cujos de amigos foram matados. Yusuf estava protegendo com uns 4.000 homens, mulheres e crianças -- Cristão e muçulmanos, e de uma variedade de grupos étnicos -- na agência da droga do nacional um edifício ajustou-se acima por trabalhadores do dae (dispositivo automático de entrada). As centenas foram matadas na luta étnico-religiosa em Jos, o capital do estado do platô, em 2001. As centenas morreram mais em 2004 nos clashes em Yelwa, também no platô, então-Presidente principal Olusegun Obasanjo para declarar uma emergência. O Unrest no estado tem nos ataques provocados passados da represália entre grupos étnicos e religiosos diferentes em outras áreas do país. Mas as forças da segurança parecem ter reagido mais rapidamente do que no passado para conter a violência em Jos, com o exército que emite nos reforços dos estados neighbouring. (Para a cobertura cheia de Reuters África e para ter sua palavra nas edições do alto, visita: http://africa. reuters.com/) (escrita por Entalhe Tattersall; Editar por Marca Trevelyan)
Dödavgiften i Nigeria kolliderar löneförhöjningar till omkring 400Automatically translated into Swedish thanks to WorldLingo JOS Nigeria, Nov 30 (Reuters) - invånare levererade mer förkroppsligar till den huvudsakliga moskén i den nigerianska staden för centralen av Jos på söndag som kommer med dödavgiften från två dagar av sammandrabbningar mellan Muslim och kristna ligor till omkring 400 folk. Den rivaliserande person som tillhör en etnisk minoritet och religiösa folkhopar har bränt hem, shoppar, moskéer och kyrkor i stridighet som startas av ett omtvistat kommunalval i en stad på tvärgatorna av Nigeria Muslim nord och kristensöder. Det är landets värst oro för år. Murtala Sani Hashim, som har registrerat deadna, som de kommas med till stadens huvudsakliga moské, berättade Reuters som han hade listat 367 förkroppsligar, och mer ankom. Tio lik som slås in i filtar, två av dem spädbarn, lägger bak honom. En manipulera på ett av stadens huvudsakliga sjukhus sade att han hade mottagit 25 lik och 154 sårade, sedan oroen började. ”Sårar skotthållet, macheteskador, de är de två huvudsakliga typerna,” Dr Aboi Madaki, direktör av kliniskt servar på sjukhuset för Jos universitetarundervisning som berättas Reuters. Den total- avgiften förväntades för att vara högre, med några offer som begravdes redan, och andra som togs till andra kliniker. Våld verkade att dö besegrar på söndag. Soldater som patrullerades på fot och i jeeps för att upprätthålla ett 24 timmeutegångsförbud, lade på på de mest worst-hit områdena. Bemanna vågad vem ut gått med deras räcker i lufta till showen som de var unarmed. ”Är de stilla plockning upp dead förkroppsligar utanför. Några områden var inte åtkomliga till nu, ”sade Al Mansur, en årig bonde 53 som said alla hem runt om his hade raserats. Valt och brända-ut medel skräpade ner gatastunderna flera kyrkor, ett kvarter av hus, och ett islamiskt skolar i en neighbourhood var förstört avfyrar by. Röda koret som sades runt om 7.000 folk, hade flytt deras hem och beskyddade i regerings- byggnader, baracker för en armé, och klosterbrodern centrerar. Hade officiella said fem neighbourhoods för en hög polis slågits av den fördröjde oroen och 523 folk. PUTTRA SPÄNNINGS Nigeria 140 miljon delas folket ungefärligt lika mellan Muslims, och kristen och de två gemenskaperna bor allmänt peacefully jämsides. Men etniska och religiösa spänningar i landets central ”en mitt kuter” har bubblat för år, rotat i harm från infödda minoritetgrupper, mestadels kristen eller animist, in mot migranter och nybyggare från dentalande Muslim norden. De senaste sammandrabbningarna mellan ligor av Muslim Hausas och mestadels kristna ungdommar började tidig sort på fredag och provocerades av ett omtvistat kommunalval efter ryktespridning att ANPP-partikandidaten som drogs tillbaka av Hausas hade borttappadt racen till avgörandet PDP. ”Är det religiöst. De var brinns moskéer och kyrkor. De använde politik som ett cover-up, ”sade Suleyman Yusuf, en Muslim från Yorubafolkgruppen, två av vars vänner dödades. Yusuf beskyddade med några 4.000 manar, kvinnor och barn -- Kristen och Muslim, och från en variation av folkgrupper -- i en uppsättning för byggnad för medborgaredrogbyrå vid bistå upp arbetare. Hundreds dödades i person som tillhör en etnisk minoritet-klosterbrodern stridighet i Jos, huvudstaden av platån som var statlig, i 2001. Hundreds dog mer i 2004 i sammandrabbningar i Yelwa, också i platån, den ledande därefter-Presidenten Olusegun Obasanjo för att förklara ett nöd-. Oroen i det statligt har i de förgångna startade vedergällningattackerna mellan den olika person som tillhör en etnisk minoritet och religiösa grupper i andra områden av landet. Men säkerhetsstyrkorna verkar att ha reagerat snabbare, än i förflutnan som innehåller våld i Jos, med armén som överför i förstärkningar från neighbouring, påstår. (För full Reuters Afrika täckning och att ha din något att säga på det bästa utfärdar, besök: http://africa. reuters.com/) (handstil av Hack Tattersall; Att redigera by markerar Trevelyan),
Общее число погибших в clashes Нигерии поднимает до вокруг 400Automatically translated into Russian thanks to WorldLingo JOS, Нигерия, 30-ое нояб. (Reuters) - резиденты поставило больше тел к GLAVNой мечети в центральном нигерийском городе Jos на воскресенье, принося общее число погибших от 2 дней clashes между шатиями Muslim и Кристиан до вокруг 400 людей. Соперничающие этнические и вероисповедные mobs горели дома, магазины, мечети и церков в воевать вызванный оспоренный местныа выборы в городе на распутье севера Нигерии мусульманских и юга Кристиан. Будет unrest страны самым плохим на леты. Murtala Sani Hashim, которое регистрировало умерших по мере того как их приносят к мечети города GLAVNой, сказало Reuters, котор он перечислил 367 тел и больше приезжали. 10 трупов обернутых в одеялах, 2 из их младенцы, положение за им. Доктор на одном из стационаров города GLAVNых сказал он получило 25 поврежденных трупы и 154 в виду того что unrest начал. «Раны выстрела, ушибы machete, те будут 2 GLAVNыми типами,» Dr Aboi Madaki, директор клинических обслуживаний на стационаре университета Jos учя, сказанный Reuters. Была ы, что была общая пошлина более высока, при некоторые уже похороненные жертвы и другие принятые к другим клиникам. Показалось, что умер расправа вниз на воскресенье. Воины патрулированные on foot и в виллисах для того чтобы принудить 24-часовой curfew навели на worst-hit OBLASTях. Населите затеянное вне погулял с их руками в воздухе к выставке, котор они были unarmed. «Ими будет неподвижная рудоразборка вверх по мертвым телам снаружи. Некоторые OBLASTи не были reachable until now, «сказал Al Mansur, хуторянина 53 year-old который сказанн все дома вокруг его были razed. Опрокинутые и, котор ые-вне корабли засоряли улицы пока несколько церков, блок домов и исламская школа в одном районе были gutted пожаром. Красный Крест сказанный вокруг 7.000 людей исчез их дома и приютил в зданиях правительства, казармах армии и вероисповедных центрах. Районов старших полиций официальные сказанные 5 были ударены задержанными unrest и 523 людьми. Нигерии НАПРЯЖЕНИЙ SIMMERING 140 миллионов людей грубо равн разделены между Muslims и христианки и 2 общины вообще живут мирно side by side. Но этнические и вероисповедные напряжения в поясе страны центральном «среднем» клокочут на леты, после того как они укоренены в resentment от индигенных групп несовершеннолетия, главным образом Кристиан или animist, к переселенцам и поселенцам от Hausa-говоря мусульманского севера. Самые последние clashes между шатиями мусульманского Hausas и главным образом молодостями Кристиан начали early on пятницу и были спровоцированы оспоренный местныа выборы после того как молвы распространили что партия ANPP, котор выбранный подпер Hausas потеряла гонку к управляя PDP. «Оно вероисповедно. Они были горящими мечетями и церков. Они использовали политики как cover-up, «сказал Suleyman Yusuf, Muslim от этнические группы Yoruba, 2 друзей которого убил. Yusuf приютило с некоторыми 4.000 людьми, женщинами и дет -- Кристиан и Muslim, и от разнообразия этнические группы -- в агенство снадобья соотечественника здание установило вверх работниками помощи. Сотниы были убиты в этническ-вероисповедный воевать в Jos, столица положения плата, в 2001. Сотниы больше умерли в 2004 в clashes в Yelwa, также в плате, leading после этого-Президенте Olusegun Obasanjo для того чтобы объявить аварийную ситуацию. Unrest в положении имеет в прошлых вызванных нападениях репрессалии между по-разному этническими и вероисповедными группами в других RA1ONах страны. Но кажется, что реагируют силы безопасности более быстро чем в прошлом для того чтобы содержать расправу в Jos, при армия посылая в подкреплениях от соседнее государство. (Для полного охвата Reuters Африки и иметь ваше мнение на вопросах верхней части, посещение: http://africa. reuters.com/) (сочинительство Забоиной Tattersall; Редактировать Марк Trevelyan)
De tol van de dood in Nigeria botst stijgingen aan rond 400Automatically translated into Dutch thanks to WorldLingo JOS, Nigeria, 30 Nov. (Reuters) - de Ingezetenen leverden meer organismen aan de belangrijkste moskee in de centrale Nigeriaanse stad van Jos op Zondag, die de doodstol van twee dagen van conflicten brengt tussen Moslim en Christelijke troepen aan rond 400 mensen. Rivaliserende etnische en godsdienstige menigte hebben huizen, winkels gebrand, moskees en kerken in vechten teweeggebracht door een betwiste lokale verkiezing in een stad bij de kruispunten van het Christelijke zuiden van Nigeria het Moslimnoorden en. Het is jarenlang de slechtste onrust van het land. Murtala Sani Hashim, die de doden heeft geregistreerd aangezien zij aan de belangrijkste moskee van de stad worden gebracht, vertelde Reuters hij van 367 organismen een lijst had gemaakt en meer kwamen aan. Tien corpses die in dekens, twee wordt verpakt van hen zuigelingen, leggen achter hem. Een arts bij één van de belangrijkste ziekenhuizen van de stad zei hij 25 corpses had ontvangen en 154 verwondden aangezien de onrust begon. De „wonden van het revolverschot, macheteverwondingen, die zijn de twee belangrijke types,“ Dr. Aboi Madaki, directeur van de klinische diensten in Jos het Universitaire Ziekenhuis van het Onderwijs, Reuters vertelde. De algemene tol hoger zou zijn, met sommige reeds begraven slachtoffers en anderen genomen aan andere klinieken. Het geweld scheen om neer op Zondag te sterven. De militairen die te voet en in jeeps worden gepatrouilleerd om een avondklok van 24 uur af te dwingen legden aan de meest meest getroffen gebieden op. De mensen die opgestapt met hun waagden dienen de lucht in om te tonen zij unarmed waren. „Zij nemen buiten nog lijken op. Sommige gebieden waren niet tot nu toe bereikbaar, „bovengenoemde Al Mansur, een 53 éénjarigenlandbouwer die zei alle gehade huizen rond zijn razed. Ten val gebracht en branden-uit maakten een rommel de voertuigen van de straten terwijl verscheidene kerken, een blok van huizen en een Islamitische school in één buurt door brand werden uitgehaald. Het rode Kruis zei rond 7.000 mensen hun huizen waren ontvlucht en in overheidsgebouwen, een legerbarracks en godsdienstige centra beschut. Hogere politie officieel was bovengenoemd vijf buurten geraakt door vastgehouden onrust en 523 mensen. De SUDDERENDE miljoen mensen van Nigeria van SPANNINGEN 140 zijn ruwweg eveneens verdelen tussen Moslims en Christenen en de twee gemeenschappen leven over het algemeen vreedzaam zij aan zij. Maar de etnische en godsdienstige spanningen in de centrale „MiddenRiem“ van het land hebben jarenlang geborreld, wortel geschoten in wrok van inheemse meestal Christelijke minderheidsgroepen, of animist, naar migranten en kolonisten van het hausa-Sprekend Moslimnoorden. De recentste conflicten tussen troepen van MoslimHausas en meestal Christelijke jongeren begonnen vroeg Vrijdag en werden veroorzaakt door een betwiste lokale verkiezing na uitgespreide geruchten dat de ANPP partijkandidaat die door Hausas wordt gesteund de race aan de uitspraak PDP had verloren. „Het is godsdienstig. Zij brandden moskees en kerken. Zij gebruikten politiek als dekking-omhooggaand, „bovengenoemde Suleyman Yusuf, een Moslim van de etnische groep Yoruba, twee van van wie vrienden werden gedood. Yusuf beschutte met zowat 4.000 mannen, vrouwen en kinderen -- Christen en Moslim, en van een verscheidenheid van etnische groepen -- in een nationaal gebouw van het drugagentschap opgezet door hulparbeiders. Honderden werden gedood in hetgodsdienstige vechten in Jos, het kapitaal van de staat van het Plateau, in 2001. Honderden stierven meer in 2004 in conflicten in Yelwa, ook in Plateau, dat toen-voorzitter Olusegun Obasanjo ertoe brengt om een noodsituatie te verklaren. De onrust in de staat heeft in het verleden represailleaanvallen tussen verschillende etnische en godsdienstige groepen op ander gebied van het land teweeggebracht. Maar de veiligheidskrachten schijnen om sneller dan in het verleden gereageerd te hebben om het geweld in Jos, met het leger te bevatten dat in versterkingen van naburige staten verzendt. (Voor de volledige dekking van Reuters Afrika en uw op de hoogste kwesties, bezoek hebben zeggen: http://africa. reuters.com/) die (door Inkeping Tattersall schrijft; Het uitgeven door Teken Trevelyan)
موت يرتفع مكس في نيجيريا صدامات إلى حوالي 400Automatically translated into Arabic thanks to WorldLingo سلّم [جوس], نيجيريا, نوفمبر - تشرين الثّاني 30 ([ريوترس]) - مقيمات كثير أجسام إلى المسجد رئيسيّة في المدينة مركزية نيجيريّة [جوس] في يوم الأحد, يحضر الموت مكس من اثنان أيام الصدامات بين مسلمة ومجموعة مسيحية إلى حوالي 400 الناس. منافسة عرقيّة وقد أحرق تجمهر دينيّة منازل, متاجر, مساجد وكنائس في يتنازع يطلق ب يتنازع إنتخاب محلّية في مدينة في المفترق طريق من نيجيريا مسلمة شمال ومسيحية جنوب. هو البلاد إضطراب مريضة لسنون. قال [مورتلا] [سني] هاشم, الذي يتلقّى يكون يسجّل الموتى بما أنّ هم يكون أحضرت إلى المدينة مسجد رئيسيّة, [ريوترس] هو كان قد عدّل 367 أجسام وأكثر كان وصل. عشرة أجثاث يلفّ في أغطية, اثنان من هم أطفال, وضع تضاريس خلف ه. قال دكتورة في واحدة من المدينة مستشفيات رئيسيّة هو كان قد استلم 25 أجثاث و154 يجرح بما أنّ الإضطراب بدأ. "[غنشوت وووند], منجل إصابات, أنّ الاثنان أنواع رئيسيّة," دكتورة [أبوي] [مدكي], مديرة من خدمات سريريّة في [جوس] جامعة يعلم مستشفى, يقال [ريوترس]. توقّعت المكس إجماليّة كان أن يكون [هيغر], مع بعض ضحايا سابقا يدفن وأخرى يؤخذ إلى أخرى مصحة. ظهر العنف أن يموت إلى أسفل في يوم الأحد. فرض جنديات [بترولّد] [أن فووت] وفي عربة جيب أن ينفذ حالة منع تجوّل [24-هوور] على المناطق [وورست-هيت]. عمّرت الذي يجازف خارجا مشى مع أياديهم في الهواء إلى عرض هم كانوا [أونرمد]. "هم إنتقاء ساكنة فوق أجسام ميّتة في الخارج. [ب] بعض مناطق لم [رشبل] [أونتيل نوو], "قال [أل] منصور, 53 [ير-ولد] مزارعة الذي يقول [ألّ ث] منازل حول خاصّتي كانوا قد كانوا هدّم. يقلب وغطّى [بورنت-ووت] عربات الشوارع بينما عدّة كنائس, قالب المنازل ومدرسة [إيسلميك] في واحدة جوار كان أخرجت بنار. كان ال [رد كروسّ] يقال حول 7,000 الناس قد هرب منازلهم وكان أوى في حكومة بنايات, جيش ثكنات و [سنترس] دينيّة. شرطة كبريات رسميّة يقول ضربت خمسة جوارات تلقّى يكون بإضطراب و523 الناس احتجزوا. [سمّرينغ] [تنسونس] نيجيريا 140 انقسمت [ميلّيون بيوبل] تقريبا بالتّساوي بين [موسليم] ومسيحيات والاثنان جماعات عموما يعيشون سلميّا [سد بي سد]. غير أنّ عرقيّة وقد بقبق [تنسونس] دينيّة في البلاد مركزية "حزام سير متوسّطة" لسنون, يرسّخ في إمتعاض من محلّية أقلية مجموعة, في الأغلب مسيحية أو [أنيميست], نحو مهاجرات ومستوطنات من ال [هوس-سبكينغ] شمال مسلمة. بدأ الصدامات متأخّرة بين مجموعة من [هوسس] مسلمة وفي الأغلب شباب مسيحية [إرلي ون] يوم الجمعة وكان استثرت ب يتنازع إنتخاب محلّية عقب [روموور] نشروا أنّ ال [أنبّ] حزب مرشح يساعد ب [هوسس] كان قد خسر الجنس إلى ال يحكم [بدب]. "هو دينيّة. هم كانوا مشتعلة مساجد وكنائس. قال هم استعملوا سياسة ك [كفر-وب], "[سولمن] [يوسوف], [موسليم] من ال [يوروبا] مجموعة عرقيّة, اثنان من الذي صديقات كان قتلت. أوى [يوسوف] كان مع بعض 4,000 رجال, نساء وأطفال -- مسيحية و [موسليم], ومن تشكيل من مجموعة عرقيّة -- في مواطنة عقار وكالة ثبت بناية فوق بمعونة عاملات. قتلت مئات كان في [إثنيك-رليجووس] يتنازع في [جوس], الرأس مال من نجد دولة, في 2001. مات مئات أكثر في 2004 في صدامات في [يلوا], أيضا في نجد, [ثن-برسدنت] رئيسيّة [ألوسغن] [أبسنجو] أن يفيد طارئ. يتلقّى إضطراب في الدولة في السابقة يطلق إنتقام هجوم بين مختلفة عرقيّة ومجموعة دينيّة في أخرى مناطق من البلد. غير أنّ الأمن يظهر قوات أن يتلقّى تجاوبت أكثر سريعا من في الماض أن يحتوي العنف في [جوس], مع الجيش يرسل في تقوية من دول مجاورة. يتلقّى (ل يشبع [ريوترس] إفريقيا تغطية وأن رأيك على الأعلى إصدارات, زيارة: http://africa. reuters.com/) (كتابة ب [نيك] [تتّرسلّ]; يحرّر ب [مرك] [ترفلن])
Friday 21 November 2008
Niger Delta Arms & The Army General
Was walking past one of our newspaper stand today (19-11-08) and I read the bold headline of a general and six others who were sentenced to life imprisonment for selling 7 thousand arms to Militant MEND group for the cost of about 102 Million Naira.
The issue was how can a man raise to the position of an army general and not yet be patriotic? were are the values and discipline he was taught in the military? How can a man that has risen to that height sell his soul and all his discipline because of greed? this is the problem we face in Nigeria, rulers 9not leaders) who are more concerned with what they can acquire even though they have as opposed to what they can give, when a young dynamic ruler in the person of Barack Obama is emerging in the USA heralding change, the greedy Nigerian Army General is busy selling guns and ammunitions to young vibrant youths the future of this nation to kill and hurt themselves.
If his son was in the Niger Delta would he sell them guns, how can the federal government combat the Niger Delta problem when people within their ranks are not interested in peace but rather want to make money from the conflict of the region? The time has come for a young generation of Nigeria to arise, Nigeria with value s and dreams, we are responsible for the emerging new Nigeria…God bless Nigeria
The issue was how can a man raise to the position of an army general and not yet be patriotic? were are the values and discipline he was taught in the military? How can a man that has risen to that height sell his soul and all his discipline because of greed? this is the problem we face in Nigeria, rulers 9not leaders) who are more concerned with what they can acquire even though they have as opposed to what they can give, when a young dynamic ruler in the person of Barack Obama is emerging in the USA heralding change, the greedy Nigerian Army General is busy selling guns and ammunitions to young vibrant youths the future of this nation to kill and hurt themselves.
If his son was in the Niger Delta would he sell them guns, how can the federal government combat the Niger Delta problem when people within their ranks are not interested in peace but rather want to make money from the conflict of the region? The time has come for a young generation of Nigeria to arise, Nigeria with value s and dreams, we are responsible for the emerging new Nigeria…God bless Nigeria
Thursday 20 November 2008
NIGER DELTA SUMMIT DOOMED TO FAIL UNLESS……..
A lot have been said about the need to address the issues of poverty, insecurity, underdevelopment, militancy, youth restiveness, marginalization, the criminality of the genuine struggle of the Niger Delta people and the economic banditry perpetrated by successive governments in the Niger Delta region. Several peace resolution committees, probe panels and commissions, have been set up in the past with all the reports cooling off in the dustbins of the administrations that set them up. We do not need soothsayers to tell us what the problems are or whether the problems are real.
Earlier in the year, the Senators visited the creeks and they did not believe that the Niger Delta where the source of our economic survival comes from can be in such a state of neglect. The House of Representatives also held a retreat in one of the States and were unhappy with the state of things in the Niger Delta. The basic things for the survival of man as propounded by Maslow are lacking in the region.
When I visited my late grandmother at Sakpoba Road in the 60s and early 70s there was a public tap at Asoro junction for the masses. Today, if one cannot sink a borehole the person treks kilometers to source for drinking water. It is worse in the riverine areas because the water is heavily polluted by spills from oil related activities and human wastes. So, the people do not have clean water to drink. They have no farm land for farming. There are no industries to absorb the unemployed youths. Gas flaring is destroying the eco system with unprecedented acid rains. They live in ghettoes in mosquito infested environment. To protest the wrong done to them, they started peaceful agitations. What did government do? It confronted them with tear gas canisters and guns. This led to violent struggle, which has been hijacked by a few people and now we are having kidnappings, hostage taking and all sorts of activities that negates the genuine struggle of the Niger Delta people. This however, does not mean that the genuine agitators have been diminished.
The genuine agitators have randomly condemned these acts of criminality and are seeking solutions to the issues through the dialogue option. For instance, Ledum Mittee led the Ogoni struggles for so long without guns. All we need is a sincere dialogue process, which in all intent and purposes has been lacking.
Brief Historical Excursion
Several peace resolution committees, probe panels and commissions, have been set up in the past with all the reports cooling off in the dustbins of the administrations that set them up. The Wilkins Commission of 1958, the 1992 Rio-De Janeiro 1st earth Summit, series of dialogue between 1991 and 1998 when the Ijaw National Congress (INC) lack of trust in the government’s engagement process and perceived insincerity on the part of other actors. All these finally ended with the Kaiama declaration in 1998. There have been heaps of committees’ recommendations both to the government and the multinational companies. These include Chief Gamaliel Onosode’s Committee report done for Shell petroleum development Corporation (SPDC), the Popoola and Ogomudia’s reports for the Federal Government and recently the town hall meetings of former President Obasanjo. All these were done to seeking long lasting solutions to Niger Delta problems. Yet nothing could be said to have concretely come out of these engagements. What other evidence or recommendations does government need to act decisevely? Rather than solve the problems, the various processes created some billionaires at the expense of the real people for whose sake the committees were set. This is the major reason the Niger Delta people are against any more summit that won’t add value to their lives.
From the above, it is vivid that the Niger Delta region is not in want of panaceas to the socio-economic problems besetting the region. What is lacking is the political will of each successive government to implement the recommendations of the various committees. I say this because several agencies have emerged in the past to act as platforms for bringing development to the region. The precursor of the Niger Delta development Commission (NDDC) was OMPADEC. The end of Oil Mineral Producing Areas Development Commission (OMPADEC) did not justify the means.
The past agencies failed because of some of the following reasons:
Deliberate under funding of the agencies. We saw billions of Naira returned to the coffers of the Federal government in 2007 as unspent allocations; yet NDDC was denied its full allocation that year.
The platforms acted as conduits for siphoning money by the political actors at the States/Federal government levels.
Gave out contracts as patronage for the supporters of those in power
Weak infrastructures to monitor performance.
Corruption.
Complacency on the part of the civil populace. We would have jointly risen to demand accountability from our leaders.
Running the agencies as personal Estates.
Weak infrastructures for appraising the heads of such institutions after each administration. Thanks to the rejuvenated ICPC and the establishment of the EFCC.
The current face off
The Niger Delta Summit proposed by President Yar’Adua has generated a lot of hues, cries and resentment. It shows that the Niger Delta people have lost total confidence in the ability of government to address their problems because they have been deceived in the past. An old woman used to say “if you are deceived once, you are a fool, if you allow that same person to deceive you twice, then you are a bloody fool”.
This is the situation in the Niger Delta region. Irrespective of the need to move the process forward, this government needs to be very cautious in handling the Niger Delta issue and it stands to reason to listen to the voice of the people. The choice of Gambari who was accused of calling the likes of Ledum Mittee and late Ken Saro Wiwa common criminals at a United Nations forum compounded the issue for Yar’Adua. Gambari should been seen here as a Mediator in-Chief in this matter. In this regards, all the parties must accept to work with him without which the process is doomed to fail. Government must listen and should begin to consider other options. The competence of Gambari, a very high and respected international conflict resolver is not in doubt but he cannot perform where he is not welcomed.
From the antecedents of President Yar’Adua, I want to believe that he is very sincere about addressing the the Niger Delta problems. For him to propose the Niger Summit also underscores his non-belief in previous efforts. The past leaders have used previous summits and committees as smoke screens. It is in this light I urge all the stakeholders in this business to give him a chance to use an approach he believes in. Dialogue is a tortuous process and can never be too much even when the process hurts us, we must never give up. This is necessary because the dividends of an open, transparent and sincere dialogue process would usually stand the test of time.
Way forward:
Pending when an agreement is reached on how best to go about the dialogue process, let there be discernable and tangible development of the Niger Delta region. It is a matter of dusting previous reports and implementing the recommendations in a faithful manner.
Development cannot take place where anarchy reigns supreme. It is in this light I call on the genuine freedom fighters to lay down their arms and embrace the dialogue process. The heightened level of insecurity in the Niger Delta will make the people poorer. Industrialists who will normally invest in the oil rich region to give employment to the people cannot be guaranteed return on their investments and so will shy away from the region.
Those perpetrating criminality as in kidnapping of children, men and women for ransom, hostage taking, pipelines vandalism and illegal oil bunkering which is undermining the genuine struggle of the Niger Delta people must be fished out and made to face the music. The genuine fighters must also see this as their own war.
Upward review of the derivation formula.
The Governors of the Niger Delta region must shift their paradigm from that of their successors who aggrandized what belonged to the people for their own selfish ends. Let us begin to see the dividends of democracy in terms of the provision of the basic things of life like drinking water, shelter for the poor etc.
Release of Federal government allocations to the Federal agencies saddled with policy implementation on Niger development plans as at when due. The funds must be fully disbursed as appropriated.
Deliberate attempts to urbanize the creeks.
Deliberate attempt by the Federal government to kick start employment generation in the region.
Extensive consultations of all the relevant stakeholders in the Niger Delta.
What we are toying with in the Niger Delta is an accident waiting to happen. We have so many threats to the corporate existence of Nigeria that we all need to urgently seek solutions through the dialogue option. Except all stakeholders beat a retreat from their entrenched positions, we might jolly well be heading for a full scale war, which would not benefit the majority of Nigerians. The armed group must essentially disarm for dialogue to take place.
On the other hand, the government must make firm commitment on how to engage the militants meaningfully so that they can have a means of livelihood once they are out of the bush. Let us begin to see reclamation of land in the creeks for housing and industrialization. One thing is clear, whether the summit holds now or in the future, it is doomed to fail unless all the actors embrace a sincere process of reconciliation. This is time to walk the talk.
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Earlier in the year, the Senators visited the creeks and they did not believe that the Niger Delta where the source of our economic survival comes from can be in such a state of neglect. The House of Representatives also held a retreat in one of the States and were unhappy with the state of things in the Niger Delta. The basic things for the survival of man as propounded by Maslow are lacking in the region.
When I visited my late grandmother at Sakpoba Road in the 60s and early 70s there was a public tap at Asoro junction for the masses. Today, if one cannot sink a borehole the person treks kilometers to source for drinking water. It is worse in the riverine areas because the water is heavily polluted by spills from oil related activities and human wastes. So, the people do not have clean water to drink. They have no farm land for farming. There are no industries to absorb the unemployed youths. Gas flaring is destroying the eco system with unprecedented acid rains. They live in ghettoes in mosquito infested environment. To protest the wrong done to them, they started peaceful agitations. What did government do? It confronted them with tear gas canisters and guns. This led to violent struggle, which has been hijacked by a few people and now we are having kidnappings, hostage taking and all sorts of activities that negates the genuine struggle of the Niger Delta people. This however, does not mean that the genuine agitators have been diminished.
The genuine agitators have randomly condemned these acts of criminality and are seeking solutions to the issues through the dialogue option. For instance, Ledum Mittee led the Ogoni struggles for so long without guns. All we need is a sincere dialogue process, which in all intent and purposes has been lacking.
Brief Historical Excursion
Several peace resolution committees, probe panels and commissions, have been set up in the past with all the reports cooling off in the dustbins of the administrations that set them up. The Wilkins Commission of 1958, the 1992 Rio-De Janeiro 1st earth Summit, series of dialogue between 1991 and 1998 when the Ijaw National Congress (INC) lack of trust in the government’s engagement process and perceived insincerity on the part of other actors. All these finally ended with the Kaiama declaration in 1998. There have been heaps of committees’ recommendations both to the government and the multinational companies. These include Chief Gamaliel Onosode’s Committee report done for Shell petroleum development Corporation (SPDC), the Popoola and Ogomudia’s reports for the Federal Government and recently the town hall meetings of former President Obasanjo. All these were done to seeking long lasting solutions to Niger Delta problems. Yet nothing could be said to have concretely come out of these engagements. What other evidence or recommendations does government need to act decisevely? Rather than solve the problems, the various processes created some billionaires at the expense of the real people for whose sake the committees were set. This is the major reason the Niger Delta people are against any more summit that won’t add value to their lives.
From the above, it is vivid that the Niger Delta region is not in want of panaceas to the socio-economic problems besetting the region. What is lacking is the political will of each successive government to implement the recommendations of the various committees. I say this because several agencies have emerged in the past to act as platforms for bringing development to the region. The precursor of the Niger Delta development Commission (NDDC) was OMPADEC. The end of Oil Mineral Producing Areas Development Commission (OMPADEC) did not justify the means.
The past agencies failed because of some of the following reasons:
Deliberate under funding of the agencies. We saw billions of Naira returned to the coffers of the Federal government in 2007 as unspent allocations; yet NDDC was denied its full allocation that year.
The platforms acted as conduits for siphoning money by the political actors at the States/Federal government levels.
Gave out contracts as patronage for the supporters of those in power
Weak infrastructures to monitor performance.
Corruption.
Complacency on the part of the civil populace. We would have jointly risen to demand accountability from our leaders.
Running the agencies as personal Estates.
Weak infrastructures for appraising the heads of such institutions after each administration. Thanks to the rejuvenated ICPC and the establishment of the EFCC.
The current face off
The Niger Delta Summit proposed by President Yar’Adua has generated a lot of hues, cries and resentment. It shows that the Niger Delta people have lost total confidence in the ability of government to address their problems because they have been deceived in the past. An old woman used to say “if you are deceived once, you are a fool, if you allow that same person to deceive you twice, then you are a bloody fool”.
This is the situation in the Niger Delta region. Irrespective of the need to move the process forward, this government needs to be very cautious in handling the Niger Delta issue and it stands to reason to listen to the voice of the people. The choice of Gambari who was accused of calling the likes of Ledum Mittee and late Ken Saro Wiwa common criminals at a United Nations forum compounded the issue for Yar’Adua. Gambari should been seen here as a Mediator in-Chief in this matter. In this regards, all the parties must accept to work with him without which the process is doomed to fail. Government must listen and should begin to consider other options. The competence of Gambari, a very high and respected international conflict resolver is not in doubt but he cannot perform where he is not welcomed.
From the antecedents of President Yar’Adua, I want to believe that he is very sincere about addressing the the Niger Delta problems. For him to propose the Niger Summit also underscores his non-belief in previous efforts. The past leaders have used previous summits and committees as smoke screens. It is in this light I urge all the stakeholders in this business to give him a chance to use an approach he believes in. Dialogue is a tortuous process and can never be too much even when the process hurts us, we must never give up. This is necessary because the dividends of an open, transparent and sincere dialogue process would usually stand the test of time.
Way forward:
Pending when an agreement is reached on how best to go about the dialogue process, let there be discernable and tangible development of the Niger Delta region. It is a matter of dusting previous reports and implementing the recommendations in a faithful manner.
Development cannot take place where anarchy reigns supreme. It is in this light I call on the genuine freedom fighters to lay down their arms and embrace the dialogue process. The heightened level of insecurity in the Niger Delta will make the people poorer. Industrialists who will normally invest in the oil rich region to give employment to the people cannot be guaranteed return on their investments and so will shy away from the region.
Those perpetrating criminality as in kidnapping of children, men and women for ransom, hostage taking, pipelines vandalism and illegal oil bunkering which is undermining the genuine struggle of the Niger Delta people must be fished out and made to face the music. The genuine fighters must also see this as their own war.
Upward review of the derivation formula.
The Governors of the Niger Delta region must shift their paradigm from that of their successors who aggrandized what belonged to the people for their own selfish ends. Let us begin to see the dividends of democracy in terms of the provision of the basic things of life like drinking water, shelter for the poor etc.
Release of Federal government allocations to the Federal agencies saddled with policy implementation on Niger development plans as at when due. The funds must be fully disbursed as appropriated.
Deliberate attempts to urbanize the creeks.
Deliberate attempt by the Federal government to kick start employment generation in the region.
Extensive consultations of all the relevant stakeholders in the Niger Delta.
What we are toying with in the Niger Delta is an accident waiting to happen. We have so many threats to the corporate existence of Nigeria that we all need to urgently seek solutions through the dialogue option. Except all stakeholders beat a retreat from their entrenched positions, we might jolly well be heading for a full scale war, which would not benefit the majority of Nigerians. The armed group must essentially disarm for dialogue to take place.
On the other hand, the government must make firm commitment on how to engage the militants meaningfully so that they can have a means of livelihood once they are out of the bush. Let us begin to see reclamation of land in the creeks for housing and industrialization. One thing is clear, whether the summit holds now or in the future, it is doomed to fail unless all the actors embrace a sincere process of reconciliation. This is time to walk the talk.
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NIGER DELTA TECHNICAL COMMITTEE (NDTC) AND THE PEACE PROCESS
Once again, the process of trying to resolve the Niger issue has kicked off with the swearing in of a forty five member NDTC by Vice President Goodluck Jonathan. The Committee is a body set up by the Federal Government to collate, review and distil all previous reports, suggestions and recommendations on the Niger Delta, and come up with plausible recommendations on how best to resolve the Niger Delta crisis. The implication of this is that most of the members are supposed to be knowledgeable enough about the challenges facing the region. They would therefore rely on past experiences and recommendations from previous works right from Wilkins’ Commission of 1958 to the Ogomudia report of 2005 to arriving at their recommendations, which will assist the Government to holistically deal with the Niger delta issue.
Inaugurating the Committee yesterday at Abuja , Vice President Goodluck Jonathan said that the work of the Committee would not accommodate any jamboree in form of endless field trips and it has ten days to submit its report. Niger Deltans unanimously rejected the jettisoned Niger Delta Summit and demanded that a technical committee be put in place to synthesize previous reports for implementation. This is exactly what the Government has done. All stakeholders should give peace a chance and subsume personal ego for the overall interest of Niger Delta.
Several youths’ organizations and the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) have argued that the NDTC was not representative enough of the Niger Delta extraction, especially the youths who are the full bearers of the crunch of the economic banditry foisted on the region by successive governments, militancy, unemployment, and the social and environmental degradation of the region from oil exploration activities over the years. This is a genuine concern for all those who feel aleniated from the composition because of the previous experience of marginalization and non implementation of committee recommendations.
The youths should not feel left out because they are virtually in control of the rein of governance in the Niger Delta. If they are united and speak with one voice, the youths have the capacity to turn things round in the Niger delta. One can safely posit that this is the era of youths in governance in the Niger Delta. For the avoidance of doubts, all the Niger Delta Governors, majority of their Commissioners and members of the Niger Delta Houses of Assembly could be said to be youths.
Several other groups have also expressed pessimism about the genuineness of this initiative because of the lack of trust and confidence in previous efforts. This again is germain because of the ways the previous governments have treated the issues of the Niger Delta. Several Committees and Commissions have sat over this same topic. Yet nothing tangible has been achieved. I am sure that this Committee will be confronted with trailers’ load of reports on the Niger Delta crises. So, the problem is not the dearth of recommendations but lack of the political will in the past to implement the recommendations of the various committees. We have spent almost half a century unravelling, collating analysing and making series of recommendations on how to resolve the Niger Delta issue. Yet, with the huge sums said to have been expended, no appreciable development has taken place in the region. This does not show sincerity of purpose and every rational human would feel frustrated.
Howbeit, there is no substitute for dialogue. I have the belief that President Yar’Adua by his actions is genuine and also supports the fight for the emancipation of Niger Deltans from the claws of deprivation, hunger and disease that pervade the entire landscape. Please, give him a chance even if it means giving him time lines to bring to fruition the blue print planned for the region.
From the outset, the choice of Ledum Mitee as the Chairman of that Committee is a radical departure from the past. Ledum Mitee is a Niger Deltan and a product of the struggle for the emancipation of the Ogoni people. He has been deprived, incarcerated and harassed by the agents of the State. So, he knows the colour of poverty, deprivation and suffering. For such a man, all anyone owes him is to give him maximum support to succeed in this onerous task. In the NDTC; there is Tonye Princewill, a focused, well articulated and respectable personality. He has been in the forefront of the agitation for the good of the Niger delta people. In this train also is Tony Uranta, who is also an avowed loyalist in the genuine struggle of the Niger delta people. If we cannot trust these people who are fighters for the emancipation of the Niger Delta people from misgovernance, who then should we trust?, Ledum cannot afford to disappoint all those who genuinely strive for the good of the Niger delta people. Let us not by our actions or pronouncements send wrong signals that will make the enemies of the region believe that indeed the struggle has been turned into a bread and butter platform for personal aggrandizement. It will amount to cutting our nostrils to spite our faces.
I want to believe that this distillation process will give rise to a larger stakeholders’ forum where all the ethnic nationalities will be represented. Therefore, the aggrieved should come forward with inputs that will assist the NDTC to deliver on their terms of reference. Ten days is just around the corner.
In the foregoing, the happenings in the region today calls to question the sincerity of those who kill, maim and extort money from the people in the name of freedom fighting. In whose name or interest are they carrying out these kidnappings, and hostage taking? Is it irrational to be kidnapping Niger Deltans, toddlers, innocent workers who had no hand in what is happening in the Niger Delta and subject them to dehumanizing conditions? How can we rationalize that hostage taking for ransoms is part of the strategies to actualize the dreams of the Niger Delta people? We cannot be canvassing for the development of the Niger Delta region and in the same breath be acting as blockers to the dreams of the region. The few developmental projects going on have been stalled because of the harassment and hostage taking of the multinationals. There is no environment that can develop in this atmosphere of anarchy and lawlessness.
The modus operandi of the hostage takers and kidnappers demean and diminish the genuine struggle of the Niger Delta people who are undergoing the worst form of dehumanization in the history of world’s oil rich regions. The people of the Niger Delta region from where the oil wealth is gotten live in abject poverty and mosquito infested creeks, they have no access to drinking water, they drink from the same river that serves as their loo, electricity is a luxury and out of their reach, the youths are largely unemployed and uneducated. Yet, some persons are turning this regrettable and preventable misfortune to a money spinning venture that serves only their own selfish agenda. This must be discouraged. All the interest groups should condemn these acts because the happenings in the Niger Delta region is a man made social Gustav that will consume all of us except we play active roles in putting down this insurgency and selfish agenda. The genuine agitators for a better Niger Delta should continue with the systematized steps that would win the region the sympathy of the international community and all well meaning people. An environment that will allow those handling various projects owners to deliver on their targets should be created for the good of the people.
To the NDTC; this Committee cannot afford to fail. One thing the NDTC must do is to clearly spell out the quick wins like housing units built from oil money in the creeks of Niger Delta instead of the wooden structures on top of water, motorable inter and intra city roads in the entire region, bridges, livelihood empowerment programmes for both male and female folks, functional schools and hospitals etc.These are tangible and confidence building things that will make people buy-in to this renewed peace path.
To the government, this process must not fail. It must yield the desired fruits. It must be seasoned with trust and transparency. It must be laced with tangible dividends that will enable stakeholders buy into this process that has started and other future interventions. Any attempt to treat this process like any other political window dressing as done in the past will be disastrous. The Niger Delta issue is an accident waiting to happen. If allowed to happen, it will be a Tsunami of sorts and the impact will be catastrophic. Tangible and long lasting developmental processes must come alive with this process. Money appropriated for the development of the area must be released in full and judiciously committed for the good of all. All hands must be on deck to ensure that the resolution of the Niger delta crises puts all the actors on the positive side of history. The time to talk and walk the talk is now.
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OBASANJO AND THE SERMON ON DEMOCRACY
By Louis Brown Ogbeifun August 5, 2008
At the twilight of late General Abacha’s rule, former President Olusegun Obasanjo (OBJ) and others were condemned to death for plotting to overthrow his government. By divine providence, OBJ was rescued from the valley of the shadow of death. When it was time to source for the man that could help to knit the political fabrics of Nigeria together, ex-military men and the powerful political class routed for Obasanjo in 1999. Several things perhaps informed their decision. These include:
Obasanjo’s capacity to de-militarize the polity.
To assuage the feelings of the South West on the annulment of June 12, 1993 elections.
Having gone to prison and saved by God from being killed, people thought that Obasanjo would rule with the fear of God.
As a man who criticized Babangida’s Structural Adjustment Program (SAP) as lacking human face in its implementation, those who lobbied for his enthronement thought he would use the human face theory to reform the economy.
Many saw him as a man who would be bold enough to tackle the issues of corruption and poverty.
First Military Head of State to voluntarily hand over power to a civilian administration.
This was how Obasanjo rode to the towering heights of Aso Rock as an elected Executive President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on a platter of gold. He started his second missionary journey on a cautious note. He told those that invested in his enthronement to see it as a sacrifice for the country rather than as a means of getting richer. Nigerians applauded this bold step. It was a signal that he would rid the political terrain of the country’s economic suckers, who make more money through the sponsoring of politicians for political offices. The various panels beaming the searchlight on the activities of governance under him proved that people got richer doing the wrong things.
As a person, I am convinced that at the inception of his administration in 1999, he had a great vision for Nigeria and her unity. Unfortunately, he got drowned in the field of politics and misdirected the powers conferred on him by the paraphernalia of executive presidency. Irrespective of the arrogance and gross abuse of office by some of the members of his economic team, the team worked hard to bring respect to Nigeria in the economic front. OBJ was doing relatively well until he mounted the pulpit as an anointed man of God, which he was not. In some instances, he played God at the expense of the reason he came into the presidential villa. He saw himself as the Solomon of our time and refused to listen to those who genuinely meant well for Nigeria. At other times, he equated himself with the State. All these led to the distractions that swayed him from a well articulated agenda, which would have brought succour to the masses. To make matters worse the sycophants and praise singers made him believe that without him, Nigeria will crumble. This led him to the mother of all mistakes in the name of the third term project, which was to elongate his tenure and the man lost his dignity and respect.
Going through the pages of newspapers in recent times, one can discern the anger and frustration in Nigerians against the legacy he left behind especially in the energy sector. If he had continued to fix the problems associated with power generation, creation of quality jobs and staying steadfastly to his initial vision, he would have been one of the greatest Presidents of our time. Unfortunately, he allowed a few cabal to hold him hostage. He deviated too sharply to negativity due to selfish interest and greed as typified by the third term agenda that fatally diminished his rule. By the time he left office in 2007, the followings were some of the negative appraisals of the Obasanjo administration:
Decay in the infrastructural facilities in the educational and health sectors. Tertiary institutions were shut for more days than they were opened for studies during his era.
Worsening states of the roads across the country despite the billions of naira sunk into the sector.
Almost all national assets were sold to government acolytes in very questionable manner.
The energy sector was left worse than he met it in spite of the huge investments in the sector. Nigeria has become a dumping ground for generators.
He came into office and left with shortages in petroleum products. He was unable to fully deal with the structural reforms needed to galvanize the sector to enviable heights.
Heightened insecurity across the nation.
Increase in petroleum pipelines vandalism and its attendant negative effects.
The manufacturing sector was less than 25% capacity utilization before he left office.
Job losses from 1999-2007 were the worse ever in Nigerian history.
Brazen abuse of judicial processes.
Increase in unresolved assassinations and murders of high profile Nigerians.
Formation of militias across the country, which was a sign of total loss of confidence in the central government.
Youths’ restiveness and militancy reached its crescendo in the last days of his administration.
Vessels implicated in illegal bunkering under protective custody disappeared like exposed spirit.
The politics of do-or-die perpetrated led to electoral fraud of unimaginable proportion.
The Local Government councils were turned into mere clearing houses for sharing of monthly allocations.
Political thuggery and amala politics became the rule rather than the exception in some parts of the country.
Manipulation of the constitutional review to perpetuate his tenure extension.
Lack of respect for elders and constituted authorities by himself and some of his appointees.
Turning the National Assembly to an extension of Aso Rock. This was partially reversed when the third term project died.
Niger Delta disaster.
The above led to the calls for the probe of his administration, which is indirectly going on through various probe panels currently probing several sectors of the economy.
I have watched, read and listened to the tongue lashing of OBJ both in the media and social circles. It cuts across all ethnic groups, ages and gender. For a man who left power in a little than a year ago, one would have thought that OBJ will still wield so much power to counter any attack from any quarters. Even IBB who left power long ago has die hard loyalists who are daily defending him and wanting to make us believe that the general is a democrat in spite of the June 12 disaster. But for OBJ, it’s a different stroke.
Less than a year after leaving office, almost all his policies have been reversed. His party men have enterered the ring, sparring to give him a technical knockout to strip him of his Board Of Trustees (BOT) championship belt he won through the manipulation of the constitution of PDP. It is just a matter of time for this to happen because the National Exective Council of Peoples’ democratic Party (PDP) has reversed the clauses that made him the only qualified candidate for the BOT position. The happenings around him have not made things easier. Soon after his exit from Aso Villa, he was accused of having inappropriate relationship with his son’s wife. Soon afterwards, his beloved daughter was in EFCC’s net. Who would have believed that Iyabo, the apple of Baba’s eyes could not attend senate sittings for the fear of arrest by EFCC? Many of the governors he unilaterally imposed on the party turned against him to choose someone outside his candidate for PDP’s chairmanship position. The Speaker he foisted on his party men in the person of Madam Speaker Etteh was removed without qualms. In such a short period, the almighty OBJ became so ordinary.
The only analogy that could be drawn here is the Marcus Antonius speech to the gathering of people around the corpse of Julius Caesar; “Oh mighty Caesar! Doth thou lie so low? Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, shrunk to this little measure? Fare thee well.” Marcus did not imagine that the almighty Caesar could lie so low and unable to move any part of his body while everyone stood over his corpse nor was he able to command his army to destroy those that betrayed his trust in death. The EFCC that arrested IBB’s son during his rule came for OBJ’s daughter too. This aptly agrees with the words of Marcus Antonius that “ The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones; so let it be with Caesar………………..Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral. He was my friend and just to me”.
In Obasanjo’s case, the sordid silence of his acolytes and the 1999-2007 billionaires that he made during his service years baffles me. I thought I would find in Obasanjo loyalists, a Wada Nas, a Marcus Antonius or an Afegbua. Wada Nas was the diehard friend of the Abachas just like Marcus was to Julius Caesar and Afegbua to Babangida. Even in death Marcus and Nas stood in the gap for their friends. For Afegbua, he has been very constant in defending Babangida even when every other person was castigating him over the June 12 1993 election issue. These are courageous men who stood for what they believed in. I have been wondering what has happened to the arrays of special advisers and the egg heads like Nweke Jnr, el-Rufai, Chief Femi Fani Kayode who virtually insulted everybody that dared criticized Obasanjo’s policies in the past.
During his years in office, OBJ did the direct opposite of his purposed ideals and sermons. The examples are legion. Before he became the President, he advised IBB during the latter’s rule as Head of State to show human face in the implementation of the Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) because Nigerians were going through harrowing times. When he started with his own reforms the human face theory disappeared. He treated Nigerians with so much disrespect and disdain.
Obasanjo once appealed to Generals Babangida, Abdusalam Abubakar, Buhari and others to appear before Oputa Panel for the sake of their names and that of their families. Yet, the same Obasanjo refused to honor the invitation of the National Assembly to clear his name over the non-adherence to due process in the award of several contracts in the power sector. When OBJ was invited to the House of Representatives to defend his role in the power probe, he sent in a written brief. In that letter, he fell short of calling the honourable members dishonourable as he noted that the way he was invited was disrespectful to elders. He reminded the honourable members that they have forgotten so soon that he symbolized the grower and nourisher of democracy.
If a democrat as expressed, when IBB annulled June 12 1993 elections which was acclaimed as the best elections ever organized in Nigeria’s political history, he would have teamed up with the progressives to actualize the dream of true democrats in the restoration of the June 12 mandate. What was his reaction? He said that Moshood Kashimawo Abiola, his own kin’s man was not the messiah Nigerians were looking for and thus justified the annulment of June 12, 1993. He rather supported putting in place an Interim National Government as a way of easing IBB out of office. He forgot that June 12 was not about Abiola. It was about the dashed hope of a people who voted for a Muslim-Muslim ticket, a people that refused the tribal coloration during the elections; it was about subversion of the constitution and the will of the people, it was about a process mismanaged and it was a betrayal of the trust of the same people that General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida swore to defend.
One of the key attributes of a democrat is tolerance of the opposition but OBJ as a civilian President was very intolerant of the opposition. He cunningly and deceitfully destroyed AD in the south west. I have attended conferences where OBJ told people to shut up. He openly commanded his aides to take microphones from those not singing his tunes. He called labour leaders who were criticizing his policies of deregulation and privatization programs dissidents and saboteurs. One of his ministers, Mallam el-Rufai told labour leaders to go and form their political parties if they must have a say on policy issues. He also reminded the entire senate that silence was the best answer for a fool. Obasanjo did not condemn this act of insolence to a constituted authority.
In that same response to the National Assembly, he admonished the members that as Africans, they must respect, elders, age and authority. He forgot that he never respected elders or men in authority when he was the President. He once told Nigerians about the senility of a world class economist, Prof Sam Aluko. The climax of these misguided missiles was when he also referred to Reverend Yakubu Pam, the Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Plateau State as “a big fool and Reverend my foot” His aides followed his footsteps by routinely abusing former Heads of State and elder statesmen at the slightest opportunity. Not even Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, Chief Gani Fawehinmi, General Yakubu Gowon and Senator Ken Nnamani, who are old enough to parent them or at the worst senior uncles were spared in the circus of abuses and debasement that characterized their years of service.
He went further to lecture the House members on the qualities of a good leader, which includes transparency, accountability and due process through adherence to the rule of law. Please, spare me your Excellency! Under him, his aides turned the privatization exercises to the spoils of war that should be shared among associates and loyalists. The power sector probes showed disrespect for due process. The Minister of FCT took a land allocated to Universal basic Education, a public concern and gave it to Big Boss Man. Still under him, houses and lands were taken from people in the name of sitting on sewage lines and had them reallocated to themselves or their associates. The panel probing the allocation of land and houses in FCDA has been awash with sad tales of hypocrisy, tribalism and share wickedness. The Abuja demolition exercises never followed due process or honour the human face theory. The committee that was supposed to be in place to review cases of illegal structures was circumvented and never constituted. Revelations of the panel of FCT revealed how lands confiscated were either bought by the same officers or given to their friends. The same Minister handled the PENTASCOPE deals in which Nigeria lost billions of Naira.
From the above and looking back at what he was worth before 1999, and the stupendous wealth that he amassed in the last eight years, would OBJ still see himself as a democrat, a respecter of elders and authority, a transparent and accountable leader?.
However, despite the above minuses, his administration has certain pluses that cannot be wished away. Some of the things that would remain on his political balance sheet, which this administration must build on include:
Removing Nigeria from the list of highly indebted nations.
Nigeria was gradually brought back into the main stream of world politics.
The establishment of EFCC to combat money laundering and related economic crimes. Never mind the cry of selectivity in its operations. Those hounded should prove their innocence in courts of law. Like I said before, once Obasanjo left office, EFCC will come after him and his people. We have seen this happen. By the time Yar’Adua leaves office, it will also do its house cleaning job and Nigeria remains the beneficiary at the end of the day.
The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) that has reduced fake drugs to less than 17%.
The consolidation of banks, which has made it possible for people to walk into banks to transact businesses with much ease. The operations could however be made more efficient because interest rates are still at double digit level.
Access to mortgage facilities.
The capital market came to an all time high.
The refurbishing of the refineries between 2004 and 2005 for the first time in more than a decade. Unfortunately, the mismanagement of the Niger Delta crises thwarted the efforts of the optimization of the refineries.
Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has brought respect to the country as Nigeria has been acknowledged to be genuinely and positively fighting the drug war as against the use of the organization against those opposed to the military junta during the military era.
The Oil and Gas Reform Implementation Committee (OGIC) reforms.
Nigeria’s foreign reserve stood at well over $42 billion as at the time he left office.
Establishment of Nigerian Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (NEITI) which has since conducted the financial, physical and process audits of the oil and gas sector.
The turnaround in communication and aviation industry.
Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) exploits in the prosecution of corrupt public officers.
One big lesson that resonates from all the above is that leaders in positions of authority must rule with the fear of God and ensure that the mandate of the people is not betrayed. Do those things that are right, just and fair. Only the good deeds will speak in their favour long after they have left the scene. Just like life, governace is a stage for show casing skills of leadership and service. OBJ has played his own part, the audience are appraising him and nothing can be done to turn the hand of the clock back in his favour if he did not do things right in some areas. It is just a matter of time for us to read the verdict of history on him and his administration.
Meanwhile, the focus is on the present administration under Yar’Adua. He should be mindful of the flaws of the last administration, avoid them and build on the positive areas of the foundation so that at the end, he would have made a difference by ensuring that the people are dignified in labour.
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Inaugurating the Committee yesterday at Abuja , Vice President Goodluck Jonathan said that the work of the Committee would not accommodate any jamboree in form of endless field trips and it has ten days to submit its report. Niger Deltans unanimously rejected the jettisoned Niger Delta Summit and demanded that a technical committee be put in place to synthesize previous reports for implementation. This is exactly what the Government has done. All stakeholders should give peace a chance and subsume personal ego for the overall interest of Niger Delta.
Several youths’ organizations and the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) have argued that the NDTC was not representative enough of the Niger Delta extraction, especially the youths who are the full bearers of the crunch of the economic banditry foisted on the region by successive governments, militancy, unemployment, and the social and environmental degradation of the region from oil exploration activities over the years. This is a genuine concern for all those who feel aleniated from the composition because of the previous experience of marginalization and non implementation of committee recommendations.
The youths should not feel left out because they are virtually in control of the rein of governance in the Niger Delta. If they are united and speak with one voice, the youths have the capacity to turn things round in the Niger delta. One can safely posit that this is the era of youths in governance in the Niger Delta. For the avoidance of doubts, all the Niger Delta Governors, majority of their Commissioners and members of the Niger Delta Houses of Assembly could be said to be youths.
Several other groups have also expressed pessimism about the genuineness of this initiative because of the lack of trust and confidence in previous efforts. This again is germain because of the ways the previous governments have treated the issues of the Niger Delta. Several Committees and Commissions have sat over this same topic. Yet nothing tangible has been achieved. I am sure that this Committee will be confronted with trailers’ load of reports on the Niger Delta crises. So, the problem is not the dearth of recommendations but lack of the political will in the past to implement the recommendations of the various committees. We have spent almost half a century unravelling, collating analysing and making series of recommendations on how to resolve the Niger Delta issue. Yet, with the huge sums said to have been expended, no appreciable development has taken place in the region. This does not show sincerity of purpose and every rational human would feel frustrated.
Howbeit, there is no substitute for dialogue. I have the belief that President Yar’Adua by his actions is genuine and also supports the fight for the emancipation of Niger Deltans from the claws of deprivation, hunger and disease that pervade the entire landscape. Please, give him a chance even if it means giving him time lines to bring to fruition the blue print planned for the region.
From the outset, the choice of Ledum Mitee as the Chairman of that Committee is a radical departure from the past. Ledum Mitee is a Niger Deltan and a product of the struggle for the emancipation of the Ogoni people. He has been deprived, incarcerated and harassed by the agents of the State. So, he knows the colour of poverty, deprivation and suffering. For such a man, all anyone owes him is to give him maximum support to succeed in this onerous task. In the NDTC; there is Tonye Princewill, a focused, well articulated and respectable personality. He has been in the forefront of the agitation for the good of the Niger delta people. In this train also is Tony Uranta, who is also an avowed loyalist in the genuine struggle of the Niger delta people. If we cannot trust these people who are fighters for the emancipation of the Niger Delta people from misgovernance, who then should we trust?, Ledum cannot afford to disappoint all those who genuinely strive for the good of the Niger delta people. Let us not by our actions or pronouncements send wrong signals that will make the enemies of the region believe that indeed the struggle has been turned into a bread and butter platform for personal aggrandizement. It will amount to cutting our nostrils to spite our faces.
I want to believe that this distillation process will give rise to a larger stakeholders’ forum where all the ethnic nationalities will be represented. Therefore, the aggrieved should come forward with inputs that will assist the NDTC to deliver on their terms of reference. Ten days is just around the corner.
In the foregoing, the happenings in the region today calls to question the sincerity of those who kill, maim and extort money from the people in the name of freedom fighting. In whose name or interest are they carrying out these kidnappings, and hostage taking? Is it irrational to be kidnapping Niger Deltans, toddlers, innocent workers who had no hand in what is happening in the Niger Delta and subject them to dehumanizing conditions? How can we rationalize that hostage taking for ransoms is part of the strategies to actualize the dreams of the Niger Delta people? We cannot be canvassing for the development of the Niger Delta region and in the same breath be acting as blockers to the dreams of the region. The few developmental projects going on have been stalled because of the harassment and hostage taking of the multinationals. There is no environment that can develop in this atmosphere of anarchy and lawlessness.
The modus operandi of the hostage takers and kidnappers demean and diminish the genuine struggle of the Niger Delta people who are undergoing the worst form of dehumanization in the history of world’s oil rich regions. The people of the Niger Delta region from where the oil wealth is gotten live in abject poverty and mosquito infested creeks, they have no access to drinking water, they drink from the same river that serves as their loo, electricity is a luxury and out of their reach, the youths are largely unemployed and uneducated. Yet, some persons are turning this regrettable and preventable misfortune to a money spinning venture that serves only their own selfish agenda. This must be discouraged. All the interest groups should condemn these acts because the happenings in the Niger Delta region is a man made social Gustav that will consume all of us except we play active roles in putting down this insurgency and selfish agenda. The genuine agitators for a better Niger Delta should continue with the systematized steps that would win the region the sympathy of the international community and all well meaning people. An environment that will allow those handling various projects owners to deliver on their targets should be created for the good of the people.
To the NDTC; this Committee cannot afford to fail. One thing the NDTC must do is to clearly spell out the quick wins like housing units built from oil money in the creeks of Niger Delta instead of the wooden structures on top of water, motorable inter and intra city roads in the entire region, bridges, livelihood empowerment programmes for both male and female folks, functional schools and hospitals etc.These are tangible and confidence building things that will make people buy-in to this renewed peace path.
To the government, this process must not fail. It must yield the desired fruits. It must be seasoned with trust and transparency. It must be laced with tangible dividends that will enable stakeholders buy into this process that has started and other future interventions. Any attempt to treat this process like any other political window dressing as done in the past will be disastrous. The Niger Delta issue is an accident waiting to happen. If allowed to happen, it will be a Tsunami of sorts and the impact will be catastrophic. Tangible and long lasting developmental processes must come alive with this process. Money appropriated for the development of the area must be released in full and judiciously committed for the good of all. All hands must be on deck to ensure that the resolution of the Niger delta crises puts all the actors on the positive side of history. The time to talk and walk the talk is now.
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OBASANJO AND THE SERMON ON DEMOCRACY
By Louis Brown Ogbeifun August 5, 2008
At the twilight of late General Abacha’s rule, former President Olusegun Obasanjo (OBJ) and others were condemned to death for plotting to overthrow his government. By divine providence, OBJ was rescued from the valley of the shadow of death. When it was time to source for the man that could help to knit the political fabrics of Nigeria together, ex-military men and the powerful political class routed for Obasanjo in 1999. Several things perhaps informed their decision. These include:
Obasanjo’s capacity to de-militarize the polity.
To assuage the feelings of the South West on the annulment of June 12, 1993 elections.
Having gone to prison and saved by God from being killed, people thought that Obasanjo would rule with the fear of God.
As a man who criticized Babangida’s Structural Adjustment Program (SAP) as lacking human face in its implementation, those who lobbied for his enthronement thought he would use the human face theory to reform the economy.
Many saw him as a man who would be bold enough to tackle the issues of corruption and poverty.
First Military Head of State to voluntarily hand over power to a civilian administration.
This was how Obasanjo rode to the towering heights of Aso Rock as an elected Executive President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on a platter of gold. He started his second missionary journey on a cautious note. He told those that invested in his enthronement to see it as a sacrifice for the country rather than as a means of getting richer. Nigerians applauded this bold step. It was a signal that he would rid the political terrain of the country’s economic suckers, who make more money through the sponsoring of politicians for political offices. The various panels beaming the searchlight on the activities of governance under him proved that people got richer doing the wrong things.
As a person, I am convinced that at the inception of his administration in 1999, he had a great vision for Nigeria and her unity. Unfortunately, he got drowned in the field of politics and misdirected the powers conferred on him by the paraphernalia of executive presidency. Irrespective of the arrogance and gross abuse of office by some of the members of his economic team, the team worked hard to bring respect to Nigeria in the economic front. OBJ was doing relatively well until he mounted the pulpit as an anointed man of God, which he was not. In some instances, he played God at the expense of the reason he came into the presidential villa. He saw himself as the Solomon of our time and refused to listen to those who genuinely meant well for Nigeria. At other times, he equated himself with the State. All these led to the distractions that swayed him from a well articulated agenda, which would have brought succour to the masses. To make matters worse the sycophants and praise singers made him believe that without him, Nigeria will crumble. This led him to the mother of all mistakes in the name of the third term project, which was to elongate his tenure and the man lost his dignity and respect.
Going through the pages of newspapers in recent times, one can discern the anger and frustration in Nigerians against the legacy he left behind especially in the energy sector. If he had continued to fix the problems associated with power generation, creation of quality jobs and staying steadfastly to his initial vision, he would have been one of the greatest Presidents of our time. Unfortunately, he allowed a few cabal to hold him hostage. He deviated too sharply to negativity due to selfish interest and greed as typified by the third term agenda that fatally diminished his rule. By the time he left office in 2007, the followings were some of the negative appraisals of the Obasanjo administration:
Decay in the infrastructural facilities in the educational and health sectors. Tertiary institutions were shut for more days than they were opened for studies during his era.
Worsening states of the roads across the country despite the billions of naira sunk into the sector.
Almost all national assets were sold to government acolytes in very questionable manner.
The energy sector was left worse than he met it in spite of the huge investments in the sector. Nigeria has become a dumping ground for generators.
He came into office and left with shortages in petroleum products. He was unable to fully deal with the structural reforms needed to galvanize the sector to enviable heights.
Heightened insecurity across the nation.
Increase in petroleum pipelines vandalism and its attendant negative effects.
The manufacturing sector was less than 25% capacity utilization before he left office.
Job losses from 1999-2007 were the worse ever in Nigerian history.
Brazen abuse of judicial processes.
Increase in unresolved assassinations and murders of high profile Nigerians.
Formation of militias across the country, which was a sign of total loss of confidence in the central government.
Youths’ restiveness and militancy reached its crescendo in the last days of his administration.
Vessels implicated in illegal bunkering under protective custody disappeared like exposed spirit.
The politics of do-or-die perpetrated led to electoral fraud of unimaginable proportion.
The Local Government councils were turned into mere clearing houses for sharing of monthly allocations.
Political thuggery and amala politics became the rule rather than the exception in some parts of the country.
Manipulation of the constitutional review to perpetuate his tenure extension.
Lack of respect for elders and constituted authorities by himself and some of his appointees.
Turning the National Assembly to an extension of Aso Rock. This was partially reversed when the third term project died.
Niger Delta disaster.
The above led to the calls for the probe of his administration, which is indirectly going on through various probe panels currently probing several sectors of the economy.
I have watched, read and listened to the tongue lashing of OBJ both in the media and social circles. It cuts across all ethnic groups, ages and gender. For a man who left power in a little than a year ago, one would have thought that OBJ will still wield so much power to counter any attack from any quarters. Even IBB who left power long ago has die hard loyalists who are daily defending him and wanting to make us believe that the general is a democrat in spite of the June 12 disaster. But for OBJ, it’s a different stroke.
Less than a year after leaving office, almost all his policies have been reversed. His party men have enterered the ring, sparring to give him a technical knockout to strip him of his Board Of Trustees (BOT) championship belt he won through the manipulation of the constitution of PDP. It is just a matter of time for this to happen because the National Exective Council of Peoples’ democratic Party (PDP) has reversed the clauses that made him the only qualified candidate for the BOT position. The happenings around him have not made things easier. Soon after his exit from Aso Villa, he was accused of having inappropriate relationship with his son’s wife. Soon afterwards, his beloved daughter was in EFCC’s net. Who would have believed that Iyabo, the apple of Baba’s eyes could not attend senate sittings for the fear of arrest by EFCC? Many of the governors he unilaterally imposed on the party turned against him to choose someone outside his candidate for PDP’s chairmanship position. The Speaker he foisted on his party men in the person of Madam Speaker Etteh was removed without qualms. In such a short period, the almighty OBJ became so ordinary.
The only analogy that could be drawn here is the Marcus Antonius speech to the gathering of people around the corpse of Julius Caesar; “Oh mighty Caesar! Doth thou lie so low? Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, shrunk to this little measure? Fare thee well.” Marcus did not imagine that the almighty Caesar could lie so low and unable to move any part of his body while everyone stood over his corpse nor was he able to command his army to destroy those that betrayed his trust in death. The EFCC that arrested IBB’s son during his rule came for OBJ’s daughter too. This aptly agrees with the words of Marcus Antonius that “ The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones; so let it be with Caesar………………..Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral. He was my friend and just to me”.
In Obasanjo’s case, the sordid silence of his acolytes and the 1999-2007 billionaires that he made during his service years baffles me. I thought I would find in Obasanjo loyalists, a Wada Nas, a Marcus Antonius or an Afegbua. Wada Nas was the diehard friend of the Abachas just like Marcus was to Julius Caesar and Afegbua to Babangida. Even in death Marcus and Nas stood in the gap for their friends. For Afegbua, he has been very constant in defending Babangida even when every other person was castigating him over the June 12 1993 election issue. These are courageous men who stood for what they believed in. I have been wondering what has happened to the arrays of special advisers and the egg heads like Nweke Jnr, el-Rufai, Chief Femi Fani Kayode who virtually insulted everybody that dared criticized Obasanjo’s policies in the past.
During his years in office, OBJ did the direct opposite of his purposed ideals and sermons. The examples are legion. Before he became the President, he advised IBB during the latter’s rule as Head of State to show human face in the implementation of the Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) because Nigerians were going through harrowing times. When he started with his own reforms the human face theory disappeared. He treated Nigerians with so much disrespect and disdain.
Obasanjo once appealed to Generals Babangida, Abdusalam Abubakar, Buhari and others to appear before Oputa Panel for the sake of their names and that of their families. Yet, the same Obasanjo refused to honor the invitation of the National Assembly to clear his name over the non-adherence to due process in the award of several contracts in the power sector. When OBJ was invited to the House of Representatives to defend his role in the power probe, he sent in a written brief. In that letter, he fell short of calling the honourable members dishonourable as he noted that the way he was invited was disrespectful to elders. He reminded the honourable members that they have forgotten so soon that he symbolized the grower and nourisher of democracy.
If a democrat as expressed, when IBB annulled June 12 1993 elections which was acclaimed as the best elections ever organized in Nigeria’s political history, he would have teamed up with the progressives to actualize the dream of true democrats in the restoration of the June 12 mandate. What was his reaction? He said that Moshood Kashimawo Abiola, his own kin’s man was not the messiah Nigerians were looking for and thus justified the annulment of June 12, 1993. He rather supported putting in place an Interim National Government as a way of easing IBB out of office. He forgot that June 12 was not about Abiola. It was about the dashed hope of a people who voted for a Muslim-Muslim ticket, a people that refused the tribal coloration during the elections; it was about subversion of the constitution and the will of the people, it was about a process mismanaged and it was a betrayal of the trust of the same people that General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida swore to defend.
One of the key attributes of a democrat is tolerance of the opposition but OBJ as a civilian President was very intolerant of the opposition. He cunningly and deceitfully destroyed AD in the south west. I have attended conferences where OBJ told people to shut up. He openly commanded his aides to take microphones from those not singing his tunes. He called labour leaders who were criticizing his policies of deregulation and privatization programs dissidents and saboteurs. One of his ministers, Mallam el-Rufai told labour leaders to go and form their political parties if they must have a say on policy issues. He also reminded the entire senate that silence was the best answer for a fool. Obasanjo did not condemn this act of insolence to a constituted authority.
In that same response to the National Assembly, he admonished the members that as Africans, they must respect, elders, age and authority. He forgot that he never respected elders or men in authority when he was the President. He once told Nigerians about the senility of a world class economist, Prof Sam Aluko. The climax of these misguided missiles was when he also referred to Reverend Yakubu Pam, the Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Plateau State as “a big fool and Reverend my foot” His aides followed his footsteps by routinely abusing former Heads of State and elder statesmen at the slightest opportunity. Not even Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, Chief Gani Fawehinmi, General Yakubu Gowon and Senator Ken Nnamani, who are old enough to parent them or at the worst senior uncles were spared in the circus of abuses and debasement that characterized their years of service.
He went further to lecture the House members on the qualities of a good leader, which includes transparency, accountability and due process through adherence to the rule of law. Please, spare me your Excellency! Under him, his aides turned the privatization exercises to the spoils of war that should be shared among associates and loyalists. The power sector probes showed disrespect for due process. The Minister of FCT took a land allocated to Universal basic Education, a public concern and gave it to Big Boss Man. Still under him, houses and lands were taken from people in the name of sitting on sewage lines and had them reallocated to themselves or their associates. The panel probing the allocation of land and houses in FCDA has been awash with sad tales of hypocrisy, tribalism and share wickedness. The Abuja demolition exercises never followed due process or honour the human face theory. The committee that was supposed to be in place to review cases of illegal structures was circumvented and never constituted. Revelations of the panel of FCT revealed how lands confiscated were either bought by the same officers or given to their friends. The same Minister handled the PENTASCOPE deals in which Nigeria lost billions of Naira.
From the above and looking back at what he was worth before 1999, and the stupendous wealth that he amassed in the last eight years, would OBJ still see himself as a democrat, a respecter of elders and authority, a transparent and accountable leader?.
However, despite the above minuses, his administration has certain pluses that cannot be wished away. Some of the things that would remain on his political balance sheet, which this administration must build on include:
Removing Nigeria from the list of highly indebted nations.
Nigeria was gradually brought back into the main stream of world politics.
The establishment of EFCC to combat money laundering and related economic crimes. Never mind the cry of selectivity in its operations. Those hounded should prove their innocence in courts of law. Like I said before, once Obasanjo left office, EFCC will come after him and his people. We have seen this happen. By the time Yar’Adua leaves office, it will also do its house cleaning job and Nigeria remains the beneficiary at the end of the day.
The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) that has reduced fake drugs to less than 17%.
The consolidation of banks, which has made it possible for people to walk into banks to transact businesses with much ease. The operations could however be made more efficient because interest rates are still at double digit level.
Access to mortgage facilities.
The capital market came to an all time high.
The refurbishing of the refineries between 2004 and 2005 for the first time in more than a decade. Unfortunately, the mismanagement of the Niger Delta crises thwarted the efforts of the optimization of the refineries.
Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has brought respect to the country as Nigeria has been acknowledged to be genuinely and positively fighting the drug war as against the use of the organization against those opposed to the military junta during the military era.
The Oil and Gas Reform Implementation Committee (OGIC) reforms.
Nigeria’s foreign reserve stood at well over $42 billion as at the time he left office.
Establishment of Nigerian Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (NEITI) which has since conducted the financial, physical and process audits of the oil and gas sector.
The turnaround in communication and aviation industry.
Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) exploits in the prosecution of corrupt public officers.
One big lesson that resonates from all the above is that leaders in positions of authority must rule with the fear of God and ensure that the mandate of the people is not betrayed. Do those things that are right, just and fair. Only the good deeds will speak in their favour long after they have left the scene. Just like life, governace is a stage for show casing skills of leadership and service. OBJ has played his own part, the audience are appraising him and nothing can be done to turn the hand of the clock back in his favour if he did not do things right in some areas. It is just a matter of time for us to read the verdict of history on him and his administration.
Meanwhile, the focus is on the present administration under Yar’Adua. He should be mindful of the flaws of the last administration, avoid them and build on the positive areas of the foundation so that at the end, he would have made a difference by ensuring that the people are dignified in labour.
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