for the past few years the battle has raged at the mouth of the niger river pitting local militants against government forces and multinational oil companies. when i first arrived here i had just a basic understanding of the nature of the conflict. the jury is the fifth largest supplier of oil to the united states is the eight large six border of oil on the planet but in the niger delta the region that produces hundreds of millions of dollars in oil and gas each year the average person lives on less than one dollar per day there are no there schools no good roads no good hospitals every year over three hundred oil spills contaminate the region and constant flaring of

precious natural gas pollutes the ecosystem. companies and corrupt politicians reap enormous profits the inhabitants of the niger delta live in poverty. under these circumstances it was no surprise to me that a conflict that ignited which militants pipelines sabotage closed haitians and kidnapped foreign oil workers. to leave. the. troubled economy. the truth is i always tend to root for the underdog and i felt an attraction to these men who were taking on the world's largest oil corporations and the corrupt government of africa's most populous nation so i took my camera to nigeria to try to meet them. that.

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a few city think you see only what you see don't. but. i decided to follow the camp commander's advice traveling with some fishermen i set out to see for myself what life is like in the niger delta and hopes of understanding the conditions out of which the militancy was born. my brother such a life is sweet it's just that there is no money. manager good life is not

easy. but i had to keep a low profile numerous foreign journalists and documentary filmmakers have already been expelled country. government forces patrolling the streets and gone on a mission to combat the militants and protect the oil from illegal. and many in the niger delta field as the oil companies and the federal government were robbing the region of its oil. we passed by bonnie island for multinational oil companies like shell. and agile tap into the thirty six billion barrels of oil beneath our feet. and i find myself in a jock or a tiny fishing village that is frequently visited by the. militants from a nearby camp.

i said. i think it's deserved never no problem. to the government we have been ugly in the end not to god not to him. not to know about. and i joke. i do wonder does. it. do you think they're no longer here. i beg go out of office. and the strong voice. and why can't they find somewhere else to stay. far away. what are they doing. it looks like they carry some people in

this big bed. may bend to. it but doesn't it. is the cargo hold my guess is it will be bad for them if they run out of bullets. the world we live in is this an urban life or rural life. a new born and. are they dragging the other speedboat along they're using their guns to signal each other. even in the midst of the conflict so ordinary life takes its course and its twenty three year old named mom goes into labor feel. for. them ok mama has come. i mean and that's when you're done eating please check her stomach moment.

when she is slow to deliver her father feeds her roots and black pepper a traditional remedy to help speed the birth. that if. you're going to want to give you this. route to try to. take it and sure come on. to it stand up. the way this thing is no better take it with the pepper and chew it i don't know it i don't like a lot of them take it quickly come on. my stomach. if you were cheering it you latest initiative already done. all this once and then was gone demis is. all of them does not speak to you but they did i did he. is the cause is a need to wish it would and knows how to give us i love you. oh good lord this given space. it's all a mate no complications arise as mom is such

a lover. that i thought i'd let it live wanted to come out now god you can do it do it now do it to zeus the baby emerge with him bill cord is wrapped around his neck and he is not prince of a good. son. woman. wife . is that enough do you need send. done too long a time down i do it to first do it to down take take the sun. bring more bring more what's happened. once. the baby has come take him out take him out.

by. enough way out then i feel my pains during the delivery name of pain once the baby. love you guys are you going. to tell that. during my time in h.r. career i've gotten a taste of the tenuous life in the creeks the vast disparity between the region's immense natural wealth and inhabitants access to basic necessities like clean drinking water or modern medical care. methods aside the niger delta cause to which the militants have laid claim seem just. but i want to learn more about why some young men choose to enter the ranks of the militants and about the leaders to draw them into the struggle so i made my way to the camp of the notorious to take

a tom cruise niger delta patriotic force as one of the strongest in the region. israel to record high of one hundred thirty three dollars per barrel that might have to the limits of even the greater the niger delta the all until recently learned to the salvage on development company monday. every day our next things are on the people. known to be terrorizing the area that people had allowed to carry out such as to be killing or maiming us and he said people. i was. going to tell them. that it would. take a time had been driven into hiding by nigeria's truck taskforce he retaliated with

an attack on the presidential hotel nevertheless he and his boys are fated to hide out as fugitives and a handful of camps they maintain in the creeks awaiting a resolution to the continental for a deal that would permit them to return. about . this my wife that. we had in mind i thought if you don't fight the house so we need development schools i just all. know the government should do something about. the group of local journalists committed to visit the techies camp for a press conference.

that will. goes on so. that there are some boys with guns telling to cover their faces a. minute i'm not going to nobody tell them to arrange themselves. just. when i. do that. i will fit. nation free clinic a should be free transport charges free. range month free risk free studio time free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects

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i already felt it developments. what is. good roads just like a bridge on oh yeah. really. it was one. of his to do. maybe. he's on something you've done for charlie. i was fights back fights. fights and everybody. just did governments i don't want me. to. tell you. how can you have peace if you don't.

when you see sincerity in. this instead. you know i know. the president no not like like life up to the like like everybody you know what does evolve. is not what's got his you ok ok. for the last. sixty. but you should see him do to live. up to the you know there are some records from. where you from. my life did not revise that. well. i will go you. know what i'm going to i didn't go off i want to. so how long have you been here in the can.

you done. with. an album where you stay. i don't know two governments because. it's your government you've also blocked off so i. am and if. you're my country congressman i believe it's first. nothing but i mean. i'm not going to. come from. no. one from. we are facing a lot of problems in the night. because no one thought to drink feel good school. no developments when you visit as far as.

well but. on somebody like. what. is a human rights activist. is it. a father how many many names. of the two now that the. enemies used to call him and to. this man if it is my. sweet. and if you. do not get at the. voice.

when i first met jayma resided mostly on the outskirts of the camp or at home among the militants and with his true family he believes he found a father and a tekken where his own father fell short. of. rice. and so sweets. i get some of. this is logical. and this is all it is this. or dishy. the. body. with these evil presidents.

but making the destroy his game is my father. ask for me to wear. every team. logo on official loomis each and then also the dots and i might think of athletes. if i want to lose that it is game it's. nice for me. never it is lying. it's. called movietone dissolved. and part of me were the way into i don't. have my hair. and i mean yeah i think from from here.

if he don't want to. it's just that i didn't gave it to him but he's my child there was a good one i don't today and i trained him. says i have six children three boys three goes tomorrow which imo is a good kid hard working. in since do. i want to see him. in mother wasn't even here until he did his primary school and he went to. his father. and later he left when i saw him last one i was in the hospital and when he came out that was when the market was operated as i can move i really want to see.

to my operation was the last time i saw him so i would like to come back so i will see him. i work on my for. you know. good good if you go there and that his mother was working on the farm. and i'm a jew and i want to i thought he was dead. i've gone to port harcourt to look for him i didn't see him i said maybe he's dead. if you went to any other place i don't know. no i was i don't know about we know there was no alcohol i mean i. think some of. that was that. i don't i that was

a little bit. about mal. good idea. going going going going to. those who are. yet to try it out to do. that because. they're too much of. my i got she said. she took the fifth when we were. on the. move over stuff like. you know i was. thank god i wonder. what they mean the time to you it's going to far it's morning it's afternoon it's in the evening that it's drink for you that is secret for you to smoke so use this

event that if you. food is not one of the money is not one of the most we don't. have all the time oh god no i doubt it's god like you and i really are not a doctor i'm not going to talk about this i want to know what i've done that is what i don't know you by the way you know how much everything i would not like that i was that might be identical don't like what that was i was not marriageable with you know not yet somehow you know you're right now go back and i'm feeling and it was you don't worry about that it's awkward i thought i was like you. know well you . ok let's go to the bible but i don't know what i'm going to. be an idea of i'm not going out there. when i do not. feel. so good that i've. got to do what

it ought to be to avoid the. you are not bloody that i do it that way they're just find out that. i was my dad's god damn i've done nothing but i would. like to know how do i. know found what. appeared. to look lou. we're almost. out of. reach i don't i don't want to be under the title that not welcome in times . i don't know the fall but

if i don't i must fight i'm not somebody. i must have a comp went to fight. or not fire and. next time i know. i should when i say they're not and i'm not. a. very good. mother. who knows. what might not. i lived i. i. alf i was glad. that i was that i know that there is a live look that is under. the

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