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****** Nigeria: Delta Governor and Ex-U.S. Ambassador Fault International
Community, Federal Govt ******
Abiodun Oluwarotimi
3 September 2009
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New York — Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan of Delta State has blamed the ongoing crisis
in the Niger Delta of the country on the negative contributions of the
international community.
The governor made this known yesterday, at Millennium United Nations Plaza
Hotel, in New York, at the official inauguration of the D3, an organisation
made up of the Deltans in Diaspora.
Governor Uduaghan added that all the crisis happening in the Niger Delta areas
should not be credited to Delta State, noting that Delta State is just a region
in the warring communities.
He further said that all the tiers of government, from the local to the federal
governments, including the international government have played one major role
or the other in complicating the insecurity problems in the Niger delta region
of the country.
"The guns they used in these wars were not manufactured here. They were brought
from abroad and this implies that the international community has a hand in the
crisis", he hinted.
Governor Uduaghan promised that his government will ensure that there is law,
orderliness, peace, security and development in the Niger Delta, stressing that
the government, after the intra-ethnic crisis which threw the state into
insecurity, has set up the Delta State Waterways Security Committee (DWSC)
which had assisted the state government in intelligence gathering, resolution
of contentious issues and alerting on flash points before they develop.
Reacting to the illegal oil bunkering in the country, Uduaghan alleged the
foreign oil workers as the brain behind the evil act. "It is these Oil workers
that give ways to those doing the bunkering because the nefarious act can not
be carried out by non-experts", he added.
In his reaction to the on-going crisis in the Niger Delta, former US envoy to
Nigeria, Ambassador Walter Carrington attributed the crisis to the abuse put on
the rights of the Deltans by the foreign oil companies.
He said that there is crisis in the country because the Federal Government of
Nigeria has failed to benefit the Niger-Delta areas which produce the natural
resources being used to generate income into the coffers of the country.
"The current crisis whose origins can be traced back to the failings of the
federal system to deal with the marginalisation which so many citizens of the
oil producing region feel" he concluded.
In his response, a Niger-Delta human rights activist, Oronto Douglas, made it
known that there was an urgent need to restore the peace and security to the
oil producing regions.
He also charged the Nigeria Permanent Representative to the United Nations,
Ambassador Joy Ogbu, to persuade President Barrack Obama to restore peace back
to the country, adding that it was the Nigerian troops that was used to bring
back peace and security to some countries created by the American government.
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