NIGER-DELTA YOUTH MILITANTS AND ABDUCTION CASES
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In the past three years, Nigeria has recorded its highest cases of abduction in the Niger Delta region by the Militant Youths of the Nigeria Delta, though most of the abductions were on expatriates foreigners working in Nigeria which results to so many oil workers fleeing from Nigeria while reknown oil refinery companies shutting down their refineries in Nigeria.
These series of kidnappings has graduated from abducting foreigners to locals. The recent abduction of Purity Ogu, 10 year daughter of of resident Pastor of Abundant Life Evangelical Church, Obigbo. She was abducted at about 12.30p.m is an issue worth worrying. In each of the abduction, the militant youth demand whooping sum of money in order to release their victim. In this case, the kidnappers are willing to release the 10 year old daugther of the Pastor for a sum of N16 million Naira
even after desecrating the church during their raid.
Since the return to democracy in 1999, the Niger Deltans have clamouring for a resource control despite the federal governments effort in seeing that the issue is being resolved amicably. This led the Federal Government of Nigeria in establishing the Niger Delta Development Commission (NNDC) which sole responsibility is providing the people affected in the region with basic amenities such as hospitals, portable drinking water, access road and lots others.
The militants are claiming that the Federal Goverment of Nigeria and the oil refineries are neglecting their region even after realising how their lands have been degraded from the series of oil explorations.
The recent deliberation at the lower chamber of the national assembly (Federal House of Representative) and concluded that an open forum investigations be set. Hon. Mohammed Ali Ndume, the minority leader of the house and Hon. Bala Ibn Na'Allah lamented how the Governor's of the region despite receiving large sum of allocation from the federal purse were unable to deliver the dividends of democracy to their people. Hon. Ali Ndume argued that a single state from the Niger Delta receives as much allocation as the six (6) states in the north-eastern part of Nigeria.
What is the federal government doing to stop the daily terrorism in the Niger Delta?
