Niger-Delta is referred as the coastal
part of Nigeria. It is widely believed that over 90% of the nation's capital
comes from Niger-Delta area and is a ground for industrial and economic
activities for instance, The Tinapa Project (an International Business Resort)
and the Oil Well and Refineries are situated in Niger Delta.
9 state of the 36 state of Nigeria
constitutes Niger Delta states and they include: Rivers state, Bayelsa state,
Imo state, Edo state, Akwa Ibom state, Ondo state and Delta state, Cross Rivers
and Abia State; these nine states are Oil producing states.
Inspite of the high chunk of income
generated from Niger Delta area, almost 85% of the indigenes still live below
$1 a day. The people feel cheated and deprived for federal government to exploit
their resources, enrich themselves and ignore the source or host.
Series of protest rising from militancy
to what have you, had been carried out to avert this issue but to no avail. Due
to high rate of unemployment, food shortage, lack of fund, and essential
amenities, most of the Niger Deltas especially the youths has shifted to doing
things ordinarily they wouldn't have done.
The federal government should carry out
positive actions instead of spoken words in resolving the Niger Delta crisis.
They should stop giving jobs to foreigners and create employment to Niger
Deltas who are credible to hold the position and create an empowerment
programmes for unskilled ones; by so doing the people will feel contented and
deviate from any immoral thoughts.
The manpower of Niger Delta youths
should not be ignored and the local industries, companies and firms in Niger
Delta should be filled up with Niger Deltans weather skilled or unskilled so as
to eradicate all forms of societal decadence.`
BAMBO
STICKS IN NIGER DELTA AREA
Niger Delta area: the purest water in
the forest
Though the activities of dirty and
tasty hunters has
Made you to taste shoddy.
Oh! What a pity, it seems the integrity
of your
Nature is in vanity.
Nevertheless, this cannot happen in our
contemporary
Society because we the Niger Deltans
knows
The direction to sanity.
The bamboo stick that vomits fire owned
By unknown men who live in the desert
Cannot build a peaceful house rather it
will continue
To increase fire and not to cease-fire.
Even if there is an unjust justice in
the land
Jeopardy cannot resolve jeopardy.
Come out of the creek, your future is
not
Blinking but full of blessings.
Your age-long- cries cannot go in vain
but
Will release you to riches.
I know you have been brutered, murdered,
slaughtered…
Please drop your bamboo sticks.
Dialogue is the only catalogue in this
mission।
