My Dear Militant, the major security problem that is shaking Nigerian Nation today,is the series of Nigerians and foreign oil workers that you kidnap daily as well as the series of attacks on oil facilities by you, Militant of the Niger Delta.
I guess that you must be feeling quite happy these days with so many people all over the world trying to find out why you took to Arms struggle. The World is asking why you chose to be Militant. Is it poor family background, is it economic hardship or political motivation or you just want to be called ‘Hardman’.
Some say you are fighting for a greater share of our region’s oil wealth which may have largely bypass you and ended up in the pockets of Corrupt Politicians. However, we can see that what may have been a political motivated protest has degenerated into extortion and crime.
You wield automatic riffles, overrun Navy, kill Police and Army, and hold Nigerians and foreigners’ hostage. Of course, there ought to be reasons for anything, but I feel so sorry for you because I know that one day you will be caught.
Do you think that you are great because you are able to take away life which you can never create? Sniffing- off promising lives, engaging yourself in dubious activities, bending the law to suit your appetite, kidnapping people, bombing and looting.
And you feel good to exist on that dark plane? You feel good to be called a criminal. I pity you so much because I know for sure that it would have been better if you were not born because someday, your burden of crime will so weigh you down that you will seek death and not find it.
It is true that Oil Companies have ravage the Niger Delta extracting oils for the global north while leaving a legacy of pollution, dispossession of land .Many Oil Companies have become very rich as a result of there exploitation of oil in Nigeria and yet the Nigerian people remain poverty stricken, ill and abused as a result of the oil activities. The introduction of Democracy in Nigeria has so far not brought an end to the abuse of the Nigerian people or their land by Oil Companies.
But you know you will achieve little if you chose to fight for your right through violence. The pen is mightier than the sword, you seems to forget. The world have been calling on you to lay down your guns and embrace dialogue as a means of solving the Niger Delta issue.
Why don’t you want to lay down your guns and dialogue with the Government of Nigeria? What is making you not to renounce crime? You are not the only person from a broken home, you are not the only person who is bored from too much wealth, you are not the only person living in the Niger Delta under hard condition and you are not the only person with a destructive tendency. Heaven knows ,I can pull a trigger too .But I, like so many persons out there have refused to bend to that kind of life of destruction.
Don’t you want to be like the Mike Okiro’s, the Tele Ikuru’s, the Donald Duke’s,the Ikedi Ohakim’s, the Goodluck Jonathan’s and the Alabo Graham Douglas? Go back to School, take Education serious. Shun violence, shun crime. I don’t need to be a seer to know that you are damaging your life. Your life can be sniffed out at any time. You operate on that frequency, ‘Ogbu Mma ga ala na Mma’ This is a divine law. O yes, he who kills by the sword will die by the sword. And your dreams in life will automatically end.
Dont kid yourself, divine law does not indulge in excuses. ‘I be small Pickin no dey for this one. Small Pickin, yet you pull triggers at people, throw bombs at houses and properties. Small Pickin, yet you kill, kidnap, rape, steal and loot.
Why dont you think? Make a U-turn now before it will be too late. Crime no dey pay.
Embrace peace, embrace dialogue. Join hands to make Nigeria a better place.
Kenneth Uwadi,
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