Michael Botu's Blog

The Niger Delta Question has never lost its footing anytime in the several years of the struggle by way of changing its course of agitation for equal rights and justice. Each agitator, in his own turn, endeavoured to sustain this primordial question with great verve and gusto. The variegated shades of activist voices, in the past, have all gone in the direction of a consensual drift to attain economic, political and social freedom from an existent internal imperialism. In the same spirit, the stream of demands, recorded from the time of Major Jasper Adaka Boro to the present regime of the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), rises to high tide with the legitimate agitation for a right to exist with dignity. In fact, records of the fact that the principal object of the Niger Delta people is subsumed under the two alternatives of either to remain in the Nigerian state as an autonomous region - Niger Delta Region -with full control of all resources of the land within its domain with