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for the past two 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 just eight large six power 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. and 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 clearing of precious natural gas police the ecosystem. well companies and corrupt politicians reap enormous profits the inhabitants of the niger delta live in poverty. under these circumstances there was no surprise to me that a conflict that ignited which militants blow my plans sabotaged closed haitians and kidnapped foreign oil workers. to leave my kid until they did i had to leave my guess. who took the lives blue decide. who troubled economy. mr leslie. 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.

bob as dad. will. ever do for you i'm going to tell you through. all. i got it all why do. you call we don't let you fall stuff yes or. yes or you way. yes.

yes or yes but at one end yes. thank 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. to live manage a good life is not easy. but i had to keep a low profile numerous foreign journalists and documentary filmmakers had already been expelled country. government forces from the creeps and gone on a mission to combat the militants and protect the oil from illegal. but 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 where multinational oil companies like shell. and magic tap into the thirty six billion barrels of oil beneath our feet. and i find myself in each of the tiny fishing village that is frequently visited by the. militants

from a nearby camp. i said. i think he's deserved it. the government we have been arguing the event not to god not to him. not to know about. and i joke. do you think they're no longer here. i beg go out of office. and the strong voice. 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. made then. but doesn't it. the guard also hold my guess is it will be bad for them if they run out of bullets or the world we live in is this an urban life or rural life. a new home and. are they dragging the other speedboat along there using their guns to signal a child. even in the midst of the conflict so ordinary life takes its course and it's twenty three year old named mom goes into labor for. so. i'm ok mom a has come.

i'm going to miss when you're done eating please check your stomach moment. when she is slow to deliver her father feeds her roots and black pepper a traditional remedy to help speed the birth. how that is so it is not a minute 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 a pepper and chew it audio no gigantic allow them to take it quickly come on. my stomach. if you were cheering it you latest initiative already done. all this once and then was gone didn't use. all of them does not speak to your body did i did he. is the cause is a need to wish he would and knows how to give up his i love the.

old girl of this given space. it's all a mate no complications arise as mom is such a lover. oh my god let it live wanted to come out now god you can do it do it now do it to zeus the baby emerges tim bilko cord is wrapped around his neck and he is not bridge nobody. son got. a lot of. life. is that enough do you need sun. done too long a time down i do it to first do it to. 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 a pain once the baby's out. that. was that was like oh. i'll never. forget it was. during my time in a jar career i've gotten a taste of the tenuous life in the creeks the vast disparity between the regions of men's 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 a record high of one hundred thirty three dollars per barrel of mine to the mississippi river and the greater the niger delta letter to recently launched the salvage on development company monday. enjoying the people. known to be terrorizing the area that people had allowed to carry out such as to be killing and maiming and he said people. that it would. take

a time had been driven into hiding by nigeria's trying task force 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. so we need development schools i just all. know. the group of local journalists committed to visit the techies camp for a press conference.

that will. go through so. there are some boys with guns telling to cover their faces. very minute in the sun in the water tell them to arrange themselves. and. then go. to the. she could laboratory tim curry was able to build the world's most sophisticated robot which all unfortunately doesn't give

a darn about anything tim's mission to teach me creation why it should care about humans and we're going this is why you should care only on the. internal silence. memory forever and invisible. every day is a struggle. for our children soundly at night. we are palestinian women working in israel we've done more for our kids than our husbands. we are phantoms in this life.

and i already. dealt with it development. everett's in good roads just like a bridge on oh yeah that really everybody does. villepin and i but john there goes and i doubt it ever was one of the wedding so who wants.

to do on it at that. event if he's there that's what may be a very sad it's a couple done for charlie. i was fired spock i was fights all fights. everybody should. just get governments i do wonder how problem with me. if i can tell you. how can you have peace if you don't. just. governments. just. when you see sincerity in. this instead. you know and i know. the president no i don't like like life doesn't like like everybody you know what does evolve. is not what's got his you ok ok. for the last. sixty.

but you should soon do to live. up to them 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 mean i didn't go off i want to. so how long have you been here in the can. i use on. this suit with you. and eloise day. i don't know two governments called to see. if you go tonight you've also been lost or thought i . am and if. you're my country congressman i lived for.

two nothing but i mean. i'm not going. to miss. running from. we are facing a lot of problems in the night. because no one thought to drink for no good school few. minutes when you visit far. well but. on somebody like. what. is the. human rights activists. how many many millions. of people to.

do. is to call him and to. this man if it is my. 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. nice. and so sweet so. i get. this is.

this is. this it this is a dishy. body. with these evil presidents. but making it into a destroyer and i just game is my father. ask but not for me to where. i left everything. open official louis each and then also the dots and i think of i think.

i want to know that it is game it's. nice for me on the. navy it is looking. out for me most it's. called movietone dissolved. and while i'm a hurried away into that i. have my hair. and i mean yeah i think from from here. he. is just that i didn't gave birth 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 to mold is

a good kid the wise hardworking. and since two. i want to see him. in mother wasn't even here until he died it is his primary school and he went to court to look for his father. and later he left when i saw him last one i was in the hospital and he came out that was when the market was operated as i can live with i really want to see. to my operation was the last time i saw him so i would like tina to come back so i will see him. i work with my friends and family you know. it's good if you go there and that his mother was working on the farm. and i'm a gentle lorna 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. you know i was excited that we know there was no alcohol and i was. smoking was that was that was how i got out of that i was. about malibu. got out about it i. really got a lot of them could how do those who are. yet to try it out a good. bit. of good about it but i did my job i got i

decided. to stick it in the mobile world. for me over the fire. you know about what. was going on there. was the name in the time to do its thing before i was it's morning and it's afternoon in the evening that it's drink for you that is secret for you to smoke so you see this event i left you. food is not one of the money is not one of the most misleading. of all the time oh god no i doubt it's god and i grew up under the law and i think that i'm like i'm not going to be i'm going to talk about exactly what i've done the lives i want what i don't know you by the way not that you did not would not like that and i was. that

was one thing that was i was not marriageable with you know not that somebody's home with your. only and it was you don't worry about that it's awkward i thought i was. well you know. if you listen to the bible. i don't want to know what i know there's. nobody out there and i did hear them that day and i doubt very much. that i would you know we all. thought it was going to go down to what it. was but you are not the new guy doing that right i guess by this would have been. what my god five of them have done i do not think that i have i would. like to argue i can't. do that. oh. well found

what. we're going to. move almost. out of. reach i don't i think i'm going to document not welcoming times. i don't know the fall but if i don't i will fight i'm not somebody. i must have a comp went to fight. or not the next time i know i am i should and i think there's a lot and i'm not. god. and i've got

a good. mother. who knows. what what oh i don't like you know i live i. i. doubt. i'll be glad you know that that i know that. i believe that it is under. load. i. was. not here. because. he's.

yeah. i mean. from the life and times to leave for the night he come from. the gulf. to do bush. feel. my muslim which i don't like that. i mean that this is the one thing that. is not among i would be in the present.

and i think. that. lipos. live. her mum live. goodspeed. her.

mum will. come up with her mum is slim good luck. mum lists. her. home out of mind i'm a better little. slimmer . more news today violence is once again fled upline these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china operations are.