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May 28, 2007 - Posted by SYLVESTER OMOSUN | art, conflict, nigerdelta, omosun, tribalpoetry | | 1 Comment

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DEAR PEOPLE OF THE DELTA REGION; THE TIME HAS COME TO DEAL WITH YOUR PROBLEM NOT PUT A BAND-AIDS ON IT AS THEY HAVE BEFORE.

YOUR NEED TO BE PUT TO WORK ASAP. YOU MUST REGAIN YOUR DIGNITY AND SELF RESPECT

MOST OF THESE PEOPLE ARE VERY WELL EDUCATED BUT NO WORK.
WE PROPOSE A JOINT VENTURE WHERE OUT COMPANY BUILDS A 200,000 BBLS REFINERY AND NAME IT “ KEN SARO-WIWA REFINERY AND PETROL-CHEM FACILITY.

THIS FACILITY MUST BE BUILD BY TALL THE PEOPLE IN THE DELTA REGION,, FOR THEM, WITH THEIR HANDS, SWEAT, BLOOD AND PRIDE THIS REFINERY WILL BELONG TO ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE DELTA REGION, FREE AND CLEAR. NO REPAYMENTS JUST JOBS AND MORE JOBS, MONEY COMING FROM THEIR REFINERY FOR ONLY THE PEOPLE IN THE DELTA REGION.

MOST OF THE WORKING FORCE WOULD BE COMING FROM THE DELTA AREA. THE UNDERLINED KEY IS TO TAKE THE INTELLECTUAL, EDUCATED FORCES OUT OF THE FORMULA, HAVE THEM FOCUS ON OTHER AREAS THEN OIL FOR A LIVING.

SOME WE HAVE TO SEND OUTSIDE OF THE COUNTRY, SOME BACK TO SCHOOL IN WESTERN COUNTRIES.

THE REST WILL BE SENT TO NON OIL FIELDS MAKING $20 A DAY, WHICH WILL PAY FOR ITSELF.

WE MUST RE-EDUCATED THEM FROM THERE PAST, GIVEN A POSITION THEY DARE NOT WANT TO LOSE.

AS AN AMERICAN, GIVING THEN A NEW WAY AT LIFE AND CONDITIONS FIT FOR WORKING PEOPLE IS WHAT WILL TURN THEN AROUND WHERE THEY WOULD WANT TO RELOCATE TO AN AREA WHICH WOULD BE BUILT BY THEM TO LIVE IN WITH THEY FAMILIES.

TODAY’S KIDNAPPERS COMPLAINED THAT THE IJAW OF EGBEMA WERE BEING MARGINALIZED IN THE AREA OF EMPLOYMENT BY CHEVRON NIGERIA LIMITED (CNL), SHELL PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT COMPANY (SPDC) AND THEIR SERVICE COMPANIES OPERATING IN THEIR DOMAIN.

REQUIREMENTS:

WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU IS A $500 MILLION STANDBY LETTER OF CREDIT, FROM THE GOVERNMENT OR THE OIL COMPANIES, FOR 36 MONTHS. TO BE RETURNED AFTER THE END OF 36 MONTHS OR THE COMPLETE CONSTRUCTION OF THE FACILITIES.

WE WOULD REQUIRE MOBILIZATION FUNDS, OF $ FIVE MILLION DOLLARS, TO BRING IN THE RIGHT TEACHERS, EQUIPMENT, AIDS, AND TRAVELING ETC EXPENSES, FOR 30 –45 DAYS WHEN WE WILL BE SELF SUFFICIENT TO HAVE THE MONEY TO BUILT AND KEEP ALL OF THE PEOPLE WORKING. MOST OF THEM OUR POLICE FORCE TO PATROL THE ENTIRE LENGTHS OF ALL MAJOR TRUNK / PIPE LINES

WE CAN GUARANTEE A BIG DROP IN KIDNAPPINGS AND TAKING OVER THE OIL FACILITIES IN THE DELTA.

THE GOVERNMENT WAY BY USING FORCE IS NOT WORKING YOUR WAY OF PAYING THEM IS NOT WORKING SO TRY OUR WAY WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO LOSE.

HOWEVER WE DO EXPECT BONUSES AT THE END OF EVERY MONTH OF PEACE IN THE REGION FROM ALL OF THE OIL COMPANIES.

YOU ARE LOSING 40% PERCENT OF PRODUCTION IN THE DELTA AREA. YOU HAVE WORKERS AFRAID TO WORK IN THE AREA.
SUBJECTING THE WORKERS TO A DANGERS ENVIRONMENT AND LIFE STYLE.

WE DO NOT THINK THAT THEY WANT ANY MORE MEETINGS, PROMISES THAT ARE NEVER KEPT.CONTINUE LACK OF FOOD, SHELTER, SCHOOLS, JOBS AND MEDICAL FACILITIES. WHICH ALL OF THE PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE IN THE AREA.

I HAVE SPENT OVER 10 YEARS IN THE RIVERS STATES AND HAVE A WORKING KNOWLEDGE OF HOW TO COMMUNICATE WITH THEM. YOU ARE DEALING WITH INTELLECTUAL PEOPLE BY USING BACKWARDS TACTICS.

WE UNDERSTAND THAT TO BUILT A REFINERY IN NIGERIA WITH LOCAL RESTRICTED ON PRICING IS A MAJOR REASON WHY BIG OIL COMPANIES ARE NOT GOING TO BUILD A REFINERY IN NIGERIA.

WITH A JOINT FACILITY BEING BUILT BY THE LOCAL PEOPLE WILL DO THE JOB. ALL OF THE OIL COMPANIES CAN CONTRIBUTE AND SOMEHOW KEEP THE PROMISE TO BUILD LOCAL FACULTIES IN THE AREA TO PUT THE PEOPLE TO WORK.

YOU HAVE THE BEST OF TWO WORLDS IF SUCCESSFUL YOU GET THE CREDIT IF NOT, BLAME IT ON MY COMPANY AND THE GOVERNMENT.
I PLEDGE TO HELP YOU SO HELP ME “GOD”. WE WILL TAKE THE HOPELESS OUT OF THE FACES OF ALL OF THE PEOPLE IN THE DELTA REGION.

CHET WHITESIDE CEO
WATCO INTENATIONAL INC. USA
watcoinc@msn.com USA
15188280225 Tel USA
15186535614 Cell USA
18882893695 Fax USA

Comment by Chet Whiteside | May 29, 2007

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inner death: a poet destructive stress

My own pen inflicting pain upon my wordings,

Vivid imagination tearing me apart,

The thought of death and African ethnic conflict,

With every ink they create tear drops,

I was burdening the magnetism activity,

Projecting the wounded world into my room,

Mangled bodies like roses squashed underfoot,

Publishing sores thereupon my soul,

And as always the emotion will take a hold,

and I will be unable to keep on,

as the pain anger and denial attacked me from every side.

This morning I was taking a walk by the Monastery, battling the bits and pieces of some depression I had been feeling after haven written on the Niger Delta, and some things about the family and life in Sudan, I went out for a stroll.

The trail leaves my birth place; “Eguare” behind and descends to the “Agbede” creek valley through patches of farmland amid the rainforest, evergreen flat straw grass, rubber trees woodland and oil palm/rainforest mixtures.

The growth of my intended study controlled by my imagination, just as the growth of each plant is controlled by the sun, the sun telling them in which way to turn, drawing them toward its source…into my source.

Just before the trail disappears into brushwood, there appear a hiker path by the left, nearly hidden by an ancient oak tree, the walk leads into the flat straw grass ending where the trail climbs above the creek, a hundred feet above sea level, here I turn right on to the Monastery, and take a pedestrian trail to the main entry.

Looking around trying to enjoy the day, the breeze, the sun, the beautiful trees and the sounds of birds chirping, I suddenly release I can write of the “peace plea” amid the nature healing hand, because there is a sense of otherworldliness in this area, of stepping into the past, of seeing things as they are and being at peace with the wholesomeness of it all.

As I walk along the trail I felt the sun on my face, in its heat I sensed the intelligence that calls to the plants, like poetry in motion it offers them life and in my soul I see the abundant growth.

Like each stanza in my poems, each seedling knows were best to sprout, and nature’s content determined how fast they can grow. In my trail the sun calls out “warmth” felt deep in my heart, and if it is too warm as my emotion sometimes does from the heat of studying the culture of pain and conflict in Africa, I sought to move away from that heat,

In the Monastery herbal orchard, I felt the sense of peace and beauty, and realized that this, too, is an intelligence calling to me to feed the “inner” me, the culture of violence within.

When one realises that nature is there patiently waiting by and that one can write of pain, the imaginations that are indeed facts, nature healing hands guide and heal that hand holding the pen.

That is the reason for this article, to tell you, of the walk in a flash of good feeling from my native home, a walk in such a monastic environment is one of the most outstanding of scenes for a creative writer, especially a writer seeking a landscape of quiet solitude to study “Peace Culture”. It is particularly excellent in the rainy day, especially when wildflowers with spikes and redwoods are often abundant.

As I continued this special forest activity, I found myself attracted to the various songs of the birds, seeking it rhymes in my poetry, and then gradually to the various stones and nuts and shells in the path, recreating it in lieu with the shell oil in the delta with ease, written of the conflict without the magnetism I once felt.

During the subsequent days of my wandering I had the conviction that when I go out into nature I may experience positive attractions to certain aspects of nature I have never had before in my writings, I can consciously connect those positive attractions as a mirror of my world, I gave the connection to pain and suffering enough space and I realized that these feelings are what are so good about living in Nigeria at this time.

It was enough, if for no other reason, to be here, to experience the beauty of this planet to shut own for a while the genocide in Rwanda, the daily bombardment inIraq. To shut out from my memory the power of my own poetry, This was a major breakthrough for me, because I battle the reason for being here, I battle the reason for the denial, deny the world is not always a chaotic scene, deny my brothers are not dying like worms, deny, deny,deny.

This was a challenge to my reality, shifting realities as well as a way of thinking is an interesting feeling. This activity re-educates that part of me that tells me to be afraid of new ways of thinking or doing, all those death and suffering that itch to control me.

I want to share with the group that I feel different from when I started written about pain, when I first wrote the “echoes of the gulf”. I have always struggled with the magnetism, and these last few weeks, I find I hardly have it at all anymore. At times I do, depending on were I am, I can go into nature, right outside my backdoor, and feel a connection that is real. The monastery website is www.ewumonks.org

please if you want to encourage my work or to help me get published, email me tribalpoetry@yahoo.com or send me a text at +234 8052130879, I am financially incapable of going on with my lierary projects right now, and if you know of a writing contest or any paid submition please help me with the infor. Thanks

omosun sylvester

Planning Officer

Bells University of Technology

Ota
Ogun State

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