Niger Delta Militants"How much lying to yourself are you actually capable of?"
-- Howard Roark in The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand.
Right now the militant revolutionary groups in the Niger Delta have united to launch more attacks on the Multinational oil companies. And they buy their arms with money from illegal oil bunkering and funds provided by their sponsors who are all stakeholders and shareholders in the illegal oil bunkering business.
But the Multinational oil companies and the Nigerian Government are not ignorant of the principal crooks and rogues engaged in illegal oil bunkering in Nigeria. They are all partners in crime.
If Shell refuses to pay us the ordianry $1.5 Billion the courts have ordered Shell to pay into the coffers of the Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN), then Shell and the other multinational oil companies should prepare for the worst case scenario in the Niger Delta region.
Shell Corporation knows how to extract oil without causing pollution, but chooses not to do so in the Niger River delta. Shell Corporation knows how to share oil wealth with those who own the land from where the oil comes -- but they choose not to do so. Shell knows well that poor people are no match for lawyers, lobbyists and naked 21st century greed. A Nigerian court has recently found Shell Corporation guilty of polluting the Niger Delta and ordered Shell to pay $1.5 billion to the Ijaw people of the Niger Delta in financial compensation for losses due to the pollution and to clean up the mess which has been made of the Niger delta. Shell Corporation refuses to pay a cent. Youths of the Ijaw people have begun seizing oil wells at gunpoint and telling Shell workers to get out of the delta until Shell pays its $1.5 billion fine, the pollution stops and the mess is cleaned up. These youths are labelled by the media as terrorists and thieves. Who is the terrorist? Who is the thief?
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