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. 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 in which militants. sabotaged closed haitians and kidnapped foreign oil workers we had. to leave my kid until he did i had to leave my. 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 bad. i voted for you through. all. why do. you call we don't let you fall stuff yes or.

yes or. yes. it. yes or. yes or pretty 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 forces. 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 oil. we passed by bonnie island or multinational 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 it's deserved it. the government we have been arguing the event 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 were. the stronger voice.

why can't they find somewhere else to stay. far away. what are they doing. it looks like they've carried some people in this big bed that they meant to. but doesn't it. is the cargo hold michael see it'll be bad for them if they run out of bullets what a world we live in is this an urban life or rural life which i was a new born in and. are they dragging the other speedboat along so they're 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 fee. for. them ok mom a 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 bad is it is it not and then you're going to want to give you this route to to. take it in sure come on. to it stand up. the way this thing is no better take it with the pepper and chew it audio no tell identical love it take it quickly come on. my stomach hurts if you're cheering it you listen it's still ready. oh yes once and then one is gone then this is. all of them does not speak to you but he did i did he. is the cause is

a need to we would and knows how to give us he's i love you. oh good lord just given space. it's all a mate no complications arise as momma settle over. god let it come to want to come out now god you can do it do it now do it to zeus the baby emerging then bilko cord is wrapped around his neck and he is not original with a. son. but . is it enough do you need sand. 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 a pain once the baby. that. was that was i think it. was never. forget it was. 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 had laid claim seemed just. but i wanted 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. to brag of one hundred thirty three dollars per barrel of mine to the movements of the of the greater the niger delta and all until recently launched the salvage on development company monday. everyday 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 maiming of innocent people. if i was. going to.

take a time i 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. this is really about what. to. do with this my wife. we have in mind i thought if you don't fight the house so we need development schools i just walked out of you know to go measure to something about some.

group of local journalists committed to visit the techies camp for a press conference. the people well i got. to go home saw. that there were some boys with guns telling to cover their faces. very minute in the zone and nobody tell them to arrange themselves ladner gunmen does. and i just wouldn't move them down. to the. i will feed it.

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but it got me. and i already. own it developments. what is school on every good roads just like a bridge on oh yeah that really everybody. then wanted to use in developing and then i was john labels and i doubt it up it was one that was sold on its.

own and it's even on an. event of his to do that's what may be a very nice company if done for trying. i was fights back i was fights all fights. everybody. is dead governments i do wonder how problem with me. if i can tell you. how can you help peace if you don't. just. when you see sincerity in. this instead. you know and i know. the president know like like like something doesn't like like everybody you know what is involved. is not what's got his you ok ok.

for the last. sixty. but you should see him do to live. off 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. why you've done. this with. an album will you stay. i don't know two governments called to see. if you got my divorce will be lost or thought i still. am and if. you're my country congressman i

lived for. nothing but i mean. i'm not going to. run from us in. the long. run 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 as far as. well but. on somebody like. what. is a human rights activist. is if. he. was father how many many names. some people know him to

a summer of the two now that the. enemies used to call him and to. this man if it is my. own. if you. is among that they kill of do not judge. them on dogs they kill off employees. when i first met chambers 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 tech and where his own father fell short. of. rice. and so sweets. i get some of. this is

logical and i laughed. this is lot in full it is this one. day she. does. with these evil brzezinski. cloyd's. what making it and destroy and that is game is my father. after i've not taken a fall for me to where. i left everything. broke on official loomis each and then also the dots and i think i think.

if i want to lose that it is game it's. nice for me than all. those hiding everything flying. up from it must its. been called movietone dissolved. and my neighborhood away into that i. have no hair. and then yeah i think from from here. there's someone and it's kind of you know it's 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 cmon china is a good kid why is hard working. in since do. i want to see him. him i was living 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 when he came out that was when the market was operated as. 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. if you good if you go there. now that his mother was working on

the farm. and i'm a major no wonder 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 about when i was out on the last night how. much. was that how i don't know how that was. valid. id. really going out of them could how do you argue that. yet to top it up they did.

it because. they're too much of. my god i forgot i decided. to check the facts on the mobile. phone on the. roof over the fire. not about what. was going on. but then the minute time to do its thing to far as its morning afternoon it's in the evening that it's going for you that is secret for you to smoke so use this event left you. food is not one of the money is not the law of moses we don't. have all the time oh god no i doubt it's god like you and your about how i got it i like it i'm not going to talk about it i would never know what i thought then that would want to know what i

don't know you by way you know my deputy from the government and i was. like that was what he was i was not marriageable with you know not yet somehow you are with your god will go bankrupt really and it was you that we're talking about that's awkward i thought i was good because i don't know what you. ok let's go to the bible but i don't want to know what i know there's. nobody out there and i did not know that then i doubt very much. that i do not. feel. that i've. got to do what it. was. you cannot do i do that i do it that way there that's fine i have been. my guides god damn i've done enough of it i would. like to know how do i.

know. what. we're going to. move almost. out of. i mean i don't i don't want to be under the title 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. next time i know i am i should and i think there's

a lot i'm not. a. very good. mother. who knows. what might not. i live i. laugh i believe i let you know that i that i know that is there no way that it is under.

he. doesn't. feel it's not become. the gulf. feel. feel. for my own science which i don't like that. i mean that this is the one thing that . is not i would be in a prison you have to get. a clear image of the rock to reach beijing. twenty day taxi trip through the

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