12th July 2008
The British Prime Minister, Mr. Gordon Brown gives support to the Islamic North's internal colonialism of Christian Niger Delta. And he said ''We stand ready to give the Nigerian government support to deal with lawlessness that exists in this area and to achieve the levels of production that
Nigeria is capable of, but because of the law and order problems have not been able to achieve.'' There is no evidence that he knows what the issue is about.
Here we try to enable Mr. Gordon Brown to understand that it is not lawlessness that makes it impossible to get the flow of oil that he requires. It is the internal freedom fighting against colonialism by fellow Africans who think that they inherit the colonial legacy of the Imperial power that had granted the people Independence. We therefore here show how Nigeria was created from scratch up to this day, when it is nearly fifty years since Independence. The Niger Delta which is the oldest part of colonial Nigeria, continues to be colonised, this time, by fellow Africans from the Sahara region. They equip themselves with the power and discipline of their Muslim religion at a time when our Christian religion is fast becoming irrelevant, even from where it came to us. We, they people of the Niger Delta will never allow the Islamic Establishment to defeat us. They are in Nigeria only because of the resources of the Niger Delta. It may be necessary for Brown to bomb us with atomic bomb in order to exterminate us. In that case the oil will flow to Mr. Brown's nominees and to the Muslims of the Sahara forever. We shall not allow them to rule us and to vandalise our lands and resources. We narrate below in a very brief way what Nigeria has been. This may help Mr. Gordon Brown if he is not a FASCIST, to appreciate that our people are not lawless. And if he so desires to use his influence to promote justice in what Nigeria has become. When we get our Independence, Shell will also get its freedom and peace to work peacefully among us. It will no more be necessay to kill us.
Before Gordon Brown begins to kill our people, we will try and let him have an idea of the people he calls Nigerians. We comprise several disparate ethnic communities numbering more than 300. Each has its own language and geographical location. On top of this, there are the warring religions of Christianity and Islam. Does Gordon Brown knows of any other country like that? Sudan is quite similar. But in the Niger Delta the Christian religion is strong enough not to be made irrelevant. All of us were conquered and forced to be together in 1914 and given the name Nigeria. But we can never live in peace. Not even Europeans in that condition can ever live in peace. That is why we in the Niger Delta do not like the Islamic North to control us at all. They will never control us peacefully.
Megery Perham, an Oxford historian wrote about the creation of Nigeria and stated ''The tribal divisions in Africa are so great that they cannot be overlooked. The new unity(of tribes under one administration) are something built by foreigners. This drew lines on a map and called the area with the great collection of independent tribes which happen to be inside those lines, by a convenient new name like Nigeria. They then set up a single government over all these tribes.'' Oxford U.Press 1944.
Inside this evil lines on the map were a) the communities on the coast of West Africa called the slave coast, later Niger Delta, and its immediate neighbours. All these had earlier been converted from paganism to Christianity by European Missionaries immediately after the slave trade. In 1906 all of these areas were proclaimed Niger Coast Protectorate. b)Also inside this evil lines on the map are Africans on the fringes of the Sahara who had been converted to Islam and had also been ruled under feudalism by Arab refugees that fled the Ottoman Empire in the eighteen century and before. With their other conquered neighbours, they were colonised as protectorate of Niger Territories.
The Niger Coast Protectorate and The Niger Territories were merged together under one administration, by the Imperial power in 1914. The merged territories was given the name Nigeria. Of the merging, a Cambridge historian, Michael Crowther wrote ''when Lord Lugard(the colonial administrator who effected the amalgamation) merged the two groups, the Muslim and Christian groups together, it must have seemed to him, that he was merging together groups of incompatible peoples''. So the dichotomy continued to this day. Several years later Lady Thatcher as British Prime Minister visited Nigeria, She took one look at it and later wrote '' It is not easy to govern a country like Nigeria. It is artificially created divided to Muslim North and Christian South''. Downing street years. In order to be of justifiable help, Gordon Brown ought to know Nigeria well.
In the Niger Delta there is no conflict or fighting among the people themselves. Our only objection is the control by the Islamic Northern Establishment. When Gordon Brown sends his troops to the joy of the Muslims in the North, they will kill our people. The more they kill, the more vacant the place will become for the Muslims to take over. They import into Nigeria every matter that concerns the Islamic people worldwide. In their demonstration on Iraq, they killed hundreds of our people in the Sharia infested part of the country. Again during the demonstration against the Danish Newspaper on account of the Holy Prophet, several of our people were killed. Then they caught a Catholic priest in Maiduguri, wrapped him over with an American flag and set him on fire. As he burnt to death they dance over his body. They dispersed when they had morbidly emptied their bladder on the ashes. They did not stop there. They attepted to get to the Niger Delta. The Igbos caught them and slaughtered them in a way they can never forget. Now Great Britain is ready to fight their cause and kill our innocent people who are in their own homes protecting their environment vandalism.
In 1999, they got in their agent Obasanjo to rule Nigeriawhich only them have been ruling since Independence. He knew what they want. It was to complete Abacha's killing of the Ogoni people of the Niger Delta. So Obasanjo as agent of the Islamic Northern Nigeria sent troops to bomb the Niger Delta for three days and three nights. It was the New Millennium. They killed thousands of our people. Gordon Brown's troops will kill many more in one hour. That will make Gordon Brown happy as a good Prime Minister. His Scottish people are demanding sucession from the United Kingdom in peace. In the United Kingdom, no one has ever been arrested for wanting to separate. In Nigeria, one can be arrested for discussing it. They could be prosecuted for treason for demanding separation. In the U.K. Gordon Brown struggled to get parliament's approval for 42 days detention in police cell. In Nigeria the jihad police can detain anyone for several years.
We pray that Gordon Brown studies the situation in the Niger Delta more carefully before he begins to kill our innocent young men and women. Our population is less than ten million. In the Niger Delta people have started to talk about that '' The British are coming again. This time, not for trade; only to kill us, so that the Hausa people can take over our land''.
ALIYI EKINEH
FOR
NIGERDELTA INDEPENDENT MOVEMENT
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