How is President Buhari reacting to this? Should the Delta people be happy with their president?
We keep on hearing about Boko Haram, that apparently their terrorism has not yet reached a genocidal level / genocidal proportions – and the Boko Haram terrorism could be partly eased by providing the terrorists with some worthwhile alternatives, such as more education and gainful employment);we also hear that the war against corruption is ostensibly at the top of Brer Buhari's agenda, but it seems that they ( the Buhari administration) are still sitting on their hands with regard to the Environmental genocide in Nigeria - in the Niger Delta which provides 70% of Nigeria's total revenue ( according to today's BBC Focus on Africa)
The BBC news footage is enough to make you sick in the stomach. The extent of the environmental degradation is such that those areas are a health hazard, unliveable, not fit for human habitation. And you know that the Delta people are water people and depend on fishing for their livelihood. Surely, the people of the Niger Delta deserve better?
On Wednesday, 30 October 2019 19:17:56 UTC+1, Cornelius Hamelberg wrote:
The Archbishop of York warns of "environmental genocide" in oil-rich Nigeria
From the very beginning until now, nothing has changed. It's a crying shame. Kalabari Brother Mujahid Dukubo-Asari and others have cried but precious little has happened. We all agree that the good people of the Nigerian Delta have suffered long enough and it's more than about time that something drastic is done to reverse the environmental degradation that is killing good people and depriving them of their livelihood and their wealth, protesting which Ken Saro-Wiwa paid with his life.
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