Nigeria Niger DElta

I can not understand President Yar'Adua and the bunch of the advisers around him. How can he ask for the advice of the council of state. These were the same people who created the problem or ignored the problems at in the first place. The people of Nigeria gave the President the benefit of doubt after the election, judging from the controvercy that trailed his election. We gave him the benefit of doubt, because of his fairly good performance as governor of Kastina state, as against and compared with the ways, some of the other governors governed and looted the treasuries of their state. Nigerians also looked at the impecable good record of his family in governments, especially his father and senior brother, who at the end of the day sacrificed his life for democracy and Nigeria. Some of the President group of advisers are some of the discreditied, indicted and corrupt ex governors, who looted the treasury and some of them, are the backers of the criminals causing mayhem and slaughtering our military people, sent by the President the commander In Chief, to mentain peace and harmony in the Niger Delta. They are involved in illegal oil bunkering and they are making a lot of blood money from the sufferings of the people of the Niger Delta. Some of the ex governors have planted their people in very sensitive positions, around the President. They are seen at the corridor of power and at all public functions. They boast of having the ear of the President. At nigth they meet with the criminals and plan to cause crises in the Niger Delta for their selfish ends. Some of the ex top military persons are also involved in this shameless and dis gracefull practices. The President should do the followings if he wants to bring peace and prosterity to the Niger Delta, his people and Nigeria. There should be no more slogans, meetings, talks and committees. There should be and must be positive actions.The problem in the Niger Delta was caused by the followings, 1. The International Multi National companies in the Niger Delta. These companies operate as cow boys, recklessly, with dis regard to the environment, the waters, the lands of the Niger Delta. They polluted the waters, waters and the environment as a result, the people can not farm on their land or fish in their waters, which is their main occupations. The people are dieing dailly of diseases caused by the polution to the environment by the multinational companies. These multi nationals build cheap infrastrutures like pipe lines etc., with disregards to internationally accepted norms and good practices. There will never do such things in other parts of the world they are operating, otherwise they will pay very dearly for such horrible practices. The multi Nationals have made a lot of money from these sharp practices, at the expence of the lives of the people of the Niger Delta.2. The next offender are federal and state governments of all shades, both past and present, who have made lot of money by ignoring and encouraging the multi National companies to get away with murder. Most of them are in the council of state, The President now want to get advice from. They are now being asked by the President to mark their papers or be the judge and jury in their own case.3. The third group are the so called selfish leaders or do i say dealears of the Niger Delta, who have also made a lot of money from the sufferings of the people of niger Delta, they claim they are leading. These same persons are some of the those who sponsor the criminals to forment and cause a lot of sufferings to the people of the Niger Delta.4. The President must without futher delay, publish the names of those, who have been sponsoring these criminals in the Niger Delta. The President must name and shame them.We then can talk of amnesty, truth and reconcilliation. Why talk of amnesty when we do not know these people who sponsor these criminals. If The President names and shame them, then grants amnesty, the criminals will now openly come out. The federal government should introduce a wind fall tax on the huge profits the mnltinationals made over the period and use ALL the money for the developement of the Niger Delta and the ecconomic empowerment of the people of the Niger Delta. ALL the money realised from the excess crude, which was got any way, from the Niger Delta, should be used for the ecconomic development and empowerment of the people of the Niger Delta. The federal government should draw down now, 30% of its external revenue for the ecconomic developement of the Niger Delta and ecconomic empowerment of the people of the Niger Delta. The ferderal government should not give the usual excuse, that this draw down will affect the value of the naira, as this is a price that, we should pay for the peace and stability of the Niger Delta and Nigeria. ALL THESE MUST BE DONE NOW!! Mr. President do all these and you have solved the problem permanently. If you do ALL of these history and prosterity will remember you very kindly.