More oil employees kidnapped in Nigeria

More oil employees kidnapped in Nigeria

VIOLENCE IS NOT THE ANSWER TO THE PROBLEM IN DELTA STATES .TERRORISM AND KIDNAPPING IS NOT THE WAY TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU ARE FIGHTING THE GOOD CAUSE.dELTA NEEDS TO BRING ABOUT CHANGES IN THEIR APPROACH TO SOLVING THE PROBLEM BY INITIATING PEACE WITH THE GOVERMENT THEIR ACTION IS CAUSING THE WHOLE WORLD TO SUFFER MAYBE THEY DON’T REALISE THIS AND THIS IS NOT THEIR INTENSION.THEY NEED SOME HIGH PROFILE WELL EDUCATED PEOPLE TO PRESENT THEIR CASE TO THE NIGERIA AND THE WORLD AT LARGE LIKE SARO WIWA DID.THIS RANSOME TAKING OF HOSTAGES SHOULD STOP.IT’S GIVING THE REVOLUTION A BAD NAME.
LOOK AT AMERICA TODAY WITH THE BLACK PEOPLE AND MARTIN LUTHER KING OF NON VIOLENCE APPROACH,THAT IS WHAT PRODUCE OBAMA TODAY LOOK AT GHANDI OF INDIA THEY ARE THE EMERGING ECONOMY TODAY.YOU CAN SUCCEDE WITHOUT LOST OF LIFE AND PROPERTY.

tHEY MUST UNDERSTAND,YOU ARE IN A COUNTRY IGNORANCE PAY THE BILLS.THE PEOPLE OF THE COUNTRY WHO KIDNAPPED PEOPLE NEED QUICK BUCKS AND AS LONG AS THEY ALLOWED THEM TO DO IT WILL GO ON, UNTILE THE LEGAL GOVERMENT OF THE COUNTRY PUNISH THEM AT THE ATMOST.dEATH FOR KIDNAPPERAS IS THE LOWEST PUNISHMENT COULD BE AWARDED TO THEM

Time for some shock n' awe...
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Militants Attack Nigeria Offshore Platform, Kidnap U.S. Sailor
June 19, 2008 - Armed militants on boats sailed 65 miles offshore to attack an oil platform in Nigeria on Thursday, forcing the oilfield to stop operation. The attackers also kidnapped a U.S. sailor.

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The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) claimed responsibility for the attack on Royal Dutch Shell’s Bonga oil platform, which produces 200,000 barrels per day.

After the daring raid, the fleeing militants attacked a U.S. supply vessel along the way, injuring two seamen and seizing the ship’s captain. The unidentified hostage was released after several hours.

The attack caused oil prices to jump to $137 per barrel in Asian trading as the oilfield shutdown cut supply of the commodity from Africa’s biggest crude producer.

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Guess what it will do to oil prices...
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We’ll hit oil pipelines, say militants
July 24, 2008 - THE main militant group in Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger Delta says it will attack major oil pipelines in the next 30 days to prove it had not received payment from the government to end its campaign.

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The head of the state-run oil firm NNPC was quoted in Nigerian newspapers as saying the company had paid militant groups $12 million to protect facilities including the Chanomi creek pipeline in Delta state. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), whose attacks have cut Nigeria’s oil output by around a fifth since early 2006, said the money had gone to criminal gangs and that genuine “freedom fighters” could not be bought off.

“MEND is aware that huge payments have been made to some criminal gangs in Delta state as a protection fee...MEND will never sell its birthright for a bowl of porridge," the group said in a statement. “To prove that we are not a part of this deal, the Chanomi creek pipeline and other major pipelines will be destroyed within the next 30 days."

Bomb attacks on pipelines in the delta, the hub of Africa’s biggest oil industry which produces around two million barrels per day, have disrupted supplies from the world’s eighth biggest oil exporter and helped push global energy prices to record highs. Anglo-Dutch giant Royal Dutch Shell, whose facilities have been amongst the worst hit by MEND’s campaign of sabotage, has a pipeline in the Chanomi creek which feeds into the Forcados oil export terminal.

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http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24068989-23109,00.html[/url]