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The root cause of N-Delta armed struggle, by Benin chief priest
Real estate news By Gabriel Enogholase
Web: Sunday, October 14, 2007
CHIEF priest to the Oba of Benin, Chief Nosakhare Isekhure, Friday, said that the armed struggle in the Niger Delta was a direct consequence of the neglect of the area by successive administrations. But he warned against turning the struggle to what he termed, ‘extortionist terrorism’, saying that “the world today has a total commitment to the absolute condemnation and rejection of terrorism”.
Isekhure, who spoke at the inaugural meeting of the Niger Delta Consultative Forum (NDCF) in Benin, described the latest kidnapping escapades and attack on expatriate workers in the country as a sad commentary and warned that those who do not make peaceful change possible would make violent change inevitable.
“The politics that the Niger Delta people have been pushed to play now is redemption politics. Consistently, the people of the area have been neglected, humiliated and abused. Repressive political conditions had pushed the youths to take up arms to redeem themselves from the seeming suffocating, political and economic alienation”.
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