so. 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 is the aid large sex power of oil on the planet but in the niger delta 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. well 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 in which militants blow pipelines sabotage closed haitians and kidnapped foreign oil workers. so leave me get out of it if i had to leave my

dad. who took the lives who decide lies who come to depend on the. mrs 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 bad. as. you thought i bought your new book. and usually go i'm going to tell you through.

all who got you in just how i got the job why do. you call we don't let you fall stuff yes or like your fault. yes or you went mad but i still got lamb yes it did my data yes or yeah but i don't and i doubt yes fifty thank you see only what you see doesn't add. 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 had already been expelled country. government sources told the greeks and gone on a mission to combat the militants and protect the oil from illegal. but many in the niger delta builders the oil companies and the federal government were robbing the

region of oil. we passed by bonnie island or multi-national oil companies like shell. and magic happened at 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 think he's deserved it. the government we have been ugly in the end not in 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. in 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 and they bend to. the guard also hold my kisses it will be bad for them if they run out of bullets what a world we live in is this an urban life or rural life to live a newborn 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 its twenty three year old named mom goes into labor for. so. i'm ok mama has come. i mean and that's 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 choose to. take it ensure you come on. to it stand up. the way this thing is no better take it with a pepper and chew it don't know what i don't like a little bit take it quickly come on. my stomach. if you were cheering it you

latest initiative already done. all this once and then was gone then this is. all of them does not speak to you but they did i did he. is the cause is a need to we would and knows how to give us he's a long year. old girl in this given space. it's all a mate no complications arise as momma said to deliver. 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 emerge with him bilko cord is wrapped around his neck and he is not prince nobody. son not. one with. a lot of.

what. is that enough do you need sun. 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. enough way out should they feel my pains during the delivery naima pain once the baby's out. oh my god that was like oh. my god.

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 a record high of one hundred thirty three dollars per barrel of mine to the limits of the greater the niger delta. is still raising the law needs to be salvaged on development company modern day. state governments every day are next to enjoin

the people was known to be terrorizing the area that the people had allowed to carry out such as to be killing maiming of innocent people. i was. told 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 conflict or a deal that would permit them to return. about . this my wife that.

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just. do that. i will forget it. so. wealthy british scientists have time to write for. market why not. going to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's conjurer. for a no holds barred look at the local financial headlines tune in to kaiser report on r g.

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to sit with them and eloise day. i don't know two governments called because. if you go tonight you've also of long thought i. am and if. you're my country congressman i lived first. nothing but i think. i'm going to. come from us. i'm from. we are facing a lot of problems in the night. because no one thought to drink. no good school. no developments when you visit far.

well but. on somebody like. what. is a human rights activist. is if. he. was father how many many names if you used to call him i think in. some people to a storm or so of the blue he do now that the. enemies used to call him and to. this man if it is my will he says you go this week. and we if you don't say. a business. is a month up take your love do not judge. them on dogs they go off in voice.

when i first met jayma he 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. for their will lose out rice and so sweets. i get some of. this is logical and i laughed. and this is what in full it is what i call a day she. body. would these brilliant. cloyd's.

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there's someone and it's. 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. is a good kid the wise hardworking. and since do. i want to see him. him i 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 he came out that was when the market was operated. 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 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 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. you know i was i don't know that we know there was no alcohol and i was. smoking because that was how i got that i was.

about i. was going to go get a gun out 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 on a mobile. phone on the phone. for me over still. without power. thank you the caller on the i. mean the time to do it's thing before i was 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 you

see this event left you. food is not one of the money is not one of the monas through the. eyes of all the time oh god no i doubt it's god like 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 this i want to know what i'm going to live 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 going to travel with you know not yet somehow you know you're right now go back and have a listen but wow do you think we're talking about that it's awkward i thought that was a good. well you know the exact. opposite of what i know there's. an idea that i'm happy and i go out there. when i do not. feel. so good that i've. got to do what

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. either 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. a. very good. mother. who knows. what might oh not our long here are live i owe our was. out. album that there's you know that i would say that i know that it. was that it was on the other clothes. i.

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