Who wants a STATE OF EMERGENCY declared in Port Harcourt?

Edwin Clark the father of Criminals

As Omehia no gree pay his boys, him want make dem remove Omehia through the back door.

Some Issues are better not talked of y should human being raising there hand in his state is that comfessing to crime not commited or what well I think is very ugly for this stuff to be. I do not support,

wether we like it or not, PH is in a state of emergency. drastic situations call for drastic measures. bold steps need to be taken to sanitise the place. i totally support.

I know the situation in PH is bad, I dont support state of emergency.
BUT WETIN CONCERN DELTA MAN FOR RIVERS STATE AFFAIR, WHEN WARRI DEY BOIL THIS DELTA YOUTH
NO ASK FOR STATE OF EMERGENCY.

NA ALL THIS PEOPLE WEY DEY USE TO ABACHA STYLE GO DEY ASK FOR STATE OF EMERGENCY.

This is civilian in power and not GENERAL in politics.

The only people that want a state of emergency in Rivers state are the same old, dirty, unrepentant, self-centred money bag politicians that have refused to learn from people like  Abacha that filthy lucre is not all there is to this life.
They would rather subject millions of innocent, law-abiding people to perpetual misery and abject penury just so they can have everything.

Our God is not asleep ooooo!!!    

"NA ALL THIS PEOPLE WEY DEY USE TO ABACHA STYLE GO DEY ASK FOR STATE OF EMERGENCY"

@Seagun,  I was also typing about Abacha when u were sending your post--- so very apt

The fight for resource control was judiciously fought for by MEND and co., not untill bunch of criminals now hijacked it to steal. Atleast just to get rid of the criminal elements in the state.

I support the state of emergency.

MEND and co are not different from Robin Hood, Osama Bin Paden and other politically clever criminals.
The last true Niger Delta agitator that I am aware of is Ken Saro Wiwa. He was nonviolent; a civilian.

Seun:

The last true Niger Delta agitator that I am aware of is Ken Saro Wiwa. He was nonviolent; a civilian.

Wasn't he implicated in the death of the Ogoni 4?

I-man:

Wasn't he implicated in the death of the Ogoni 4?

Yes, by a kangaroo court.

Seun:

MEND and co are not different from Robin Hood, Osama Bin Paden and other politically clever criminals.
The last true Niger Delta agitator that I am aware of is Ken Saro Wiwa. He was nonviolent; a civilian.

Of course he was civilian and civil in his agitation and approach which eventually cause him to be annihilated in no time.  And MEnD, conscious of this arent threading the same way he did.  But unfortunately the Nigerian state seem to hid more to anything that has some little forced in it.  So suit them.

But don't get me wrong; am not supporting anything violence in any form and i think the plight of this people should be looked into, _{for crying out loud.}

What exactly is a "state of emergency"? Hasn't this been declared by the
cultists and criminal gangs weeks ago? Is it a "state of normalcy" when the
army is patrolling a major urban city in tanks and firing gunships from helicopters and
the likes?

I know our roads are horrible but we use them anyway because that's all there is,
but I didn't know a situation where people are being randomly kidnapped daily and
cultists are firing AK/47 at heavily populated areas and engaging in gun battles with
each other, police, and the militarily could remotely be called normal?

Why do we prefer to tell ourselves lies?

I say "e go reach every body turn"!!!!!

With the de present situwayion in ph,

very things seem ok, but de problem

that we ve now is de extension of de

curfew.

for me i wil support state-of-emergency

b/c de people that are doing this thing

ve not been apprehend. so de possibility

of them coming back is there, but with state of

emergency they cnt.

And there wil be no curfew people wil go about

for there versus buz.

E GO BETA, no mata what, the fite wey happen for Warfi some years ago wey i still dey there, mem, e b like say this world wan end that time BUT @ d end everytin kom down, e still dey b like that sometimes i did not support State of Emergency, but i believe the Youths/Cultist/Militants canot not just wake up 1 morning nd decided to DISTURB the pice of PH, e get 1 animal wey them say e no dey run for daytime, its either sometin dey pursue am or e dey pursue sometin, na them kno de reasin why dem dey fite, nd pipo still dey wey dey sponsor this fite, Na only GOD go fit stop am, State of Emergency no go do ntin, if care is not taking them go extend am kom abuja, so that dem go dey still dey clamour for state of emergency, mke them leave mata for matyrs, GOD go do im work

Fellow nairalanders, I am getting disgusted about living in Port Harcourt.

I wasn't in town when the curfew was imposed in Port Harcourt. When I came back I arrived about 6pm with the thinking that I will at least get to my house before the curview begins at 7pm. To my greatest supprise, at about 6pm no taxi agreed to carry me any longer, no bike could even be sighted any longer not to talk about picking someone.

I had to start trekking with hundreds of others going my direction. On getting to checkpoints (about 3) before I finnally got home, I had to carry my 2 hands up for a distance of about 50 meters in a line with others. Soldiers with Intimidating faces stood by wacthing us with guns. Nobody was there to help me with my luggage. What kind of city is this.

I'm thinking of relocating to Warri. May be one will be safer there.

I don't pray so

kfasian:

Fellow Nairaland users, I am getting disgusted about living in Port Harcourt.

I wasn't in town when the curfew was imposed in Port Harcourt. When I came back I arrived about 6pm with the thinking that I will at least get to my house before the curview begins at 7pm. To my greatest supprise, at about 6pm no taxi agreed to carry me any longer, no bike could even be sighted any longer not to talk about picking someone.

I had to start trekking with hundreds of others going my direction. On getting to checkpoints (about 3) before I finnally got home, I had to carry my 2 hands up for a distance of about 50 meters in a line with others. Soldiers with Intimidating faces stood by wacthing us with guns. Nobody was there to help me with my luggage. What kind of city is this.

I'm thinking of relocating to Warri. May be one will be safer there.

I dont think warri is more safer

You sure.

u will be

save in

warri.

The masses have started surfering the state of emergency in Port Harcourt.

Since we not able to go for our normal businesses as usual.

we start business by 6am and go to bed by 7pm, is that not the begining of state of emergency??

Dear Nairalanders,
please do not judge the situation in Port Harcourt from what you read in the newspapers. A lot of them are not true. The problem is a deep rooted one. One of the reasons why things degenerate in this country is because a lot of people do not speak the truth for personal reasons. Cultism is the problem. Those calling for the imposition of a state of emergency are doing so because they are aware that the Governor of Rivers state and his lieutenants are in one cult group or the other. Believe it or not. Cultism has become the order of the day in this state. Cult groups exists on almost all streets. Cult groups exist even in primary schools! We should speak the truth when we know and see it. The governor is a blatant lie! He hobnobbed with cultists/criminals and denied it because things have gotten out of hand. It is a matter of fact for us in this state that Soboma George and his boys were the one frisking people that attended the inauguration of this government at the Civic Center in Port Harcourt. Soboma George was the same person given the contract to provide security whenever the state's football team had any match in Port Harcourt. Two pumps (petrol and kerosene) were dedicated to Soboma George and his boy at the NNPC mega station at Lagos bus stop, Port Harcourt. When the governor went to his village recently for a function, it was Soboma George's gang that provided security to and fro. When the governor's mum was kidnapped, what happened to the kidnappers? Nothing! He ended up paying them. Why? It was found out later on that the kidnappers were the boys he used during election and refused to pay. Did the police arrest and prosecute anyone? NO! It was the same thing that happened in Bayelsa state by Alameyesigha. Instead of paying the boys, he called in the police and the boys went haywire and killed several policemen until a state of emergency was declared. The boys were flushed out. Odili (the great destroyer of Rivers state) started the whole thing. He used Asari Dokubo during election while his lieutenant, Abiye Sekibo destroyed Okrika through the use of another cult leader, Tom Ateke and his estranged second in command, Soboma George. It was when Asari fell out with Odili that he set him up for the police to arrest. Till today, Odili can not move freely in Rivers State because of his sins, same with Abiye Sekibo. There are lots of cult groups in Rivers state and the leaders of the state are in different factions. How do we expect them to find a solution to this problem when they are all involved? The problem is a complex one. Aside the popular cultists, there are others that are even deadlier but silent. They are the same ones that Soboma George and Tom Ateke align with to attack each other. A food for thought: Soboma George was in prison for murder until he escaped through the aids of some other cult groups. He was also arrested for a traffic offence but his boys came to free him from the police station. What kind of government would allow such a breakdown of law and order? Innocent people were killed regularly whenever these cult group fight. We should rethink and do/support what is right for our state/nation to move forward. May God help us all as we help ourselves.

[b][/b][/i]Absolutely i support state of emergency's in PH,may be that going to resolve problem that is going on now in HP .May advice to federal government is that if they can do what they do to those guys in blood diamond to Niger Delta kidnapper's

The truth remains that Port Harcourt is a very risky place to live in. The "onyibos" that used to be a regular sight in the city has vanished. The cult thing is no longer a "secret cult" but rather "open cult". These guys are every where in the town and almost everybody can identify them. I think what we need is more of prayers than open confrontation nor curfew. I see the curfew doing very little to curb this problem. God will help us.

I pray for peace and stability in Rivers state, we need God intervention over here.

Frankly, I believe the state of emergency is the best thing that happened in PH in recent times.

Why? When criminals have taken over the place, there are more kidnappers in PH than refineries and the politicians seem to have their dirty hands tied behind their backs.

Now that the Army has moved in and killed a few of the militants, some of their leaders are now suing for peace and begging for amnesty.

Atimes the only language we recognise in this country is force. The Niger-Delta freedom fighters have lost focus and have now metarmorphosized into anarchist preying on anybody for money even their own people. 'bout time someone taught them some lesson.

After the cleansing of the many rotten eggs totting guns including the politicians that secretly support them, then we can get back to the negotiating table.

I repeat the state of emergency could not have been better timed!

Iyke-D:

What exactly is a "state of emergency"? Hasn't this been declared by the
cultists and criminal gangs weeks ago? Is it a "state of normalcy" when the
army is patrolling a major urban city in tanks and firing gunships from helicopters and
the likes?

I know our roads are horrible but we use them anyway because that's all there is,
but I didn't know a situation where people are being randomly kidnapped daily and
cultists are firing AK/47 at heavily populated areas and engaging in gun battles with
each other, police, and the militarily could remotely be called normal?

Why do we prefer to tell ourselves lies?

spot on my brother.

angel101 dem don release you angel101 how now? LOL

there's no state of emergency yet in Port Harcourt, what we have their is just a military occupation, which is not likely to yield any long-term results. As soon as the military withdraws, the gangs will come back, because some them have the backing of the state government.

There will be no peace in PH until Omehia is removed and a neutral administrator appointed for the State. Security reports have already indicted him as been a major financier of some of the cult factions, but the FG refuses to remove him. Majority of the politicians calling the shots in PH today are affiliated to the cult gangs, until they are prosecuted/ eliminated, there can never be peace in PH>

the governor of rivers state stands the better position to stop this killing and shooting in PH. he should willingly go out of the seat. he is the major cause of this problem in PH. Even his god father is supporting this by financing those bandits and cultists,millitants.
Omehiha or what they call him did not win the election period and it is too obvious to those of them at abuja but they dont want to accept the truth instead endangering innocent peopls lives in that state. Omehiha`s opponet will never rest untill he goes off the seat and omehiha himself will not like to go off the seat, so both of them will be supporting their various groups to be causing problem till the stongest wins.
Rivers state government/politician is full of cultists. i dont think state the military satnd a better chance of controlling the problem.
The FG should fully come into this matter, innocent people are dieing everyday for the thing they did not cause.

Barrackboy:

Dear Nairalanders,
please do not judge the situation in Port Harcourt from what you read in the newspapers. A lot of them are not true. The problem is a deep rooted one. One of the reasons why things degenerate in this country is because a lot of people do not speak the truth for personal reasons. Cultism is the problem. Those calling for the imposition of a state of emergency are doing so because they are aware that the Governor of Rivers state and his lieutenants are in one cult group or the other. Believe it or not. Cultism has become the order of the day in this state. Cult groups exists on almost all streets. Cult groups exist even in primary schools! We should speak the truth when we know and see it. The governor is a blatant liar! He hobnobbed with cultists/criminals and denied it because things have gotten out of hand. It is a matter of fact for us in this state that Soboma George and his boys were the one frisking people that attended the inauguration of this government at the Civic Center in Port Harcourt. Soboma George was the same person given the contract to provide security whenever the state's football team had any match in Port Harcourt. Two pumps (petrol and kerosene) were dedicated to Soboma George and his boy at the NNPC mega station at Lagos bus stop, Port Harcourt. When the governor went to his village recently for a function, it was Soboma George's gang that provided security to and fro. When the governor's mum was kidnapped, what happened to the kidnappers? Nothing! He ended up paying them. Why? It was found out later on that the kidnappers were the boys he used during election and refused to pay. Did the police arrest and prosecute anyone? NO! It was the same thing that happened in Bayelsa state by Alameyesigha. Instead of paying the boys, he called in the police and the boys went haywire and killed several policemen until a state of emergency was declared. The boys were flushed out. Odili (the great destroyer of Rivers state) started the whole thing. He used Asari Dokubo during election while his lieutenant, Abiye Sekibo destroyed Okrika through the use of another cult leader, Tom Ateke and his estranged second in command, Soboma George. It was when Asari fell out with Odili that he set him up for the police to arrest. Till today, Odili can not move freely in Rivers State because of his sins, same with Abiye Sekibo. There are lots of cult groups in Rivers state and the leaders of the state are in different factions. How do we expect them to find a solution to this problem when they are all involved? The problem is a complex one. Aside the popular cultists, there are others that are even deadlier but silent. They are the same ones that Soboma George and Tom Ateke align with to attack each other. A food for thought: Soboma George was in prison for murder until he escaped through the aids of some other cult groups. He was also arrested for a traffic offence but his boys came to free him from the police station. What kind of government would allow such a breakdown of law and order? Innocent people were killed regularly whenever these cult group fight. We should rethink and do/support what is right for our state/nation to move forward. May God help us all as we help ourselves.

Barrackboy,
May God bless you and your family for saying the truth.

Anyone who disagrees with you is ignorant of the truth.

I have been on Bonny Island on a peace mission since 2005.
Shell International arranged a meeting between me and Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) in Nigeria. And I was meant to produce a documentary to bring all the warring cults in focus to expose the truth. I called Asari Dokubo who is from the same Buguma with my brother-in-law who is a high ranking officer in the Nigerian Customs and a prominent member of the William-West family.
I was making progress and we agreed to use the documentary for dialogue and conflict resolution. But the notorious ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) was fishing in the troubled waters and did not want to the truth to be exposed. The next thing was they arrested Asari Dokubo. And suddenly SPDC that asked me if I could produce my documentary in one week, now told me that they were no longer interested in it. Because, they thought that if they could pocket Asari Dokubo, they would be able to deal with the other militants. Then I warned that if the government did not release Asari Dokubo on my very popular Nigerian Times political blog, there would be mayhem in the Niger Delta. But they thought I was joking. The producers of the World Have Your Say on BBC Radio called me several times and I spoke on the Niger Delta crisis. I told Shell that the cultists were going to acquire rocket launchers. And everything I said came to pass.

The fact is what Barrackboy has stated. No more, no less.

Dr. Peter Odili is a criminal and he has agreed to refund N100 Billion from what he stole from our oil revenue allocations to the EFCC. The other criminal James Ibori has agreed to refund N60 Billion.
The wife of the current Vice President, Jonathan Goodluck has agreed to refund over N300 Million.

But we don't want plea bargains for these criminals, but full trial and judgment.
Justice is no respecter of persons.
You cannot jail a petty thief and let those who stole billions of naira from our revenue allocations to go scot free.

Justice for one and Justice for all.
No more, no less.


Former Director- General of the SSS and former chairman of the Oil Mineral Producing Areas Development Commission (OMPADEC), Chief Albert Horsfall has said that:
"There is a big cover-up on matters relating to the security crisis rocking Port Harcourt, and the rest of Rivers State."

This is true.

"You would have heard, I have read it and have been told by different persons that the issue of cults and militias permeates every level of government in Rivers State. It was alleged in one of the papers that I read that starting from the most senior politician down to the local government chairmen in the state, most of them control some cult members for their own protection or advancing their political cause.

"Now, if you allowed one cult member to be in charge, you are inviting the rival cult member to attack that person. And if the military douses that situation as it seems to be, its only a temporary and palliative. In a matter of time, the thing will flare up again. So, it is obvious that the proper solution is to get a neutral person to be an administrator in a state of emergency which is what is operating in Rivers State today whether we like it or not.

"There is a curfew and people cannot move about freely. All the tenets of an emergency situation is taking place except that there is no state of emergency and one of the parties to the dispute is in charge of affairs, but that is not fair, because under the present circumstances, you cannot achieve justice and you cannot settle the matter."

~ Chief Albert Horsfall, Former Director-General of the SSS and former chairman of the Oil Mineral Producing Areas Development Commission (OMPADEC).

Barrackboy/Orikinla,
You have said it all. The so-called leaders are cultists. We know where the problem lies and we have to get to the root of an issue to make any meaningful change.
As for state of emergency, the actions of the police have already imposed it. Imagine discharging all occupants of your car (wife and children inclusive) poles away from a police station and having them trek with hands lifted up to a reasonable distance past the station before they get back in the car.
My question is, Is Police supposed to protect their wretched stations in times of crisis or protect the citizens? Police men are intimidating innocent citizens whom they are meant to protect.
Anytime I see this stupid act of theirs, I just feel like slapping dumbness out of their miserable brains