Nigerian Times

President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua of Nigeria I have decided to support the decision of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua to put an end to illegal oil bunkering in Nigeria and stop the loss of over $20 million illegal crude stolen from Nigeria each day. But the Alhaji Umaru Yar'Adua must be ready to prosecute the trial of the criminals who are engaged in the blood oil trade from the Niger Delta to Abuja. Oil Rig in Nigeria We know the oligarchy that is responsible for this oilgate. They are both in the public sector and private sector. Many of them are in the Nigerian Armed Forces and the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua and many of them are on the Boards of Directors of the leading banks in Nigeria. I am ready to expose them, but Let him be ready to sack them and arrest them for public trial. Enough is enough!

Mr. Steve Mufson, I have already posted the following commentary in my response to your article on Nigerian Militant Speaks Out on Oil . The critical issues I have raised should be addressed in your reaction to the e-mails from the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND). I am right here in the Niger Delta and my families stretch from Opobo to Buguma to Ikot Amba to Abia. I am on locations in Bonny and Port Harcourt. So, I can tell the truth from my eye-witness accounts. I have addressed the Niger Delta crisis on the BBC and on the Nigerian Times International Forum and Nigerian Times blog. See: Nigerian Times: SHELL, ASARI DOKUBO AND THE NIGER DELTA CRISIS I support the just cause of MEND, but what has the leaders of MEND done with the millions of dollars they have made from illegal oil bunkering and ransoms from the foreign oil workers they kidnapped and released? Most of the leaders of these so called militant groups are partners in crime with the oligarchy of the ru...