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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. nigeria is the fifth largest supplier of oil to the united states and is the aid large sex partner 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 pollution the ecosystem. while companies and corrupt politicians reap enormous profits the inhabitants of the niger delta live in poverty. the funds of these circumstances there was no surprise to me that

a conflict that ignited which militants blow pipelines sabotage closed haitians and kidnap foreign oil workers we have tell you all to leave might get out of it if i had to leave my guess. who took the lies blue decide. who 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. yet. bob as bad. dude as. you die i bought you a new book. and you feel you i'm going to tell you through you.

all who got you into so i got it all why did not you call we don't like your boss stuff yes or like your fault you haven't had a yes or you went mild radical blah blah yes it comes to my data yes or no but i don't and i doubt yes a few forty think you see only what you see. i don't.

know. 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 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 each of the tiny fishing village that is frequently visited by the. militants from a nearby camp. minutes . i have no problem. i think all humans deserve to have no problem.

the government we have then i do in the name of not in god not to him. not to you about. do you want me to. look like. do you think they're no longer here. with. my bag o. . the strong boy. why can't they find somewhere else to stay. far away. what are they doing. there is some people in this big bed. but they vented it. doesn't it. was the fart off a whole magazine it will be bad for them if they run out of boats what a world we live in where is this an urban life or rural life. when you're going to

love that are they dragging the other speedboat along so 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. the man came to his come. in 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 the traditional remedy to help speed the birth. of that man and you're going to want to give you this route to choose to. take it and sure come on. to it stand up. to this thing is no better

take it with the pepper and chew it. take it quickly come on. my stomach and. if you were cheering it you would have finished it already. and then was. gone then. all of them don't know. why didn't you. this is the causes they need to do with our nose out. of the you. know. just given space. it's all a mate no complications arise ever. was. coming you want to come out now god you can do it do it now do it to see the baby emerge with the cord is wrapped around his neck and he is not bridge over. yeah. yeah yeah.

yeah yeah yeah right. is that enough do you need sand. down to long into down i do it different do it down to i want to down take take the sun. bring more bring more what's happened. the reason you want. the baby has come. take him out. oh oh. oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh but. they're not way out she made me feel my pain is during the delivery name a pain once the baby's out. of the.

world was it was like what it was when that was where you want to go where do they get you. 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 region's immense natural wealth and inhabitants access to basic necessities like clean drinking water or modern medical care methods aside the niger delta caused too much the militants had laid claim seemed just. what i wanted to learn more about why some young men choose to enter the ranks of the militants and about the leaders that draw them into the struggle so i made my way to the camp of the notorious attack a tom cruise niger delta patriotic force is one of the strongest in the region. prices rose to record high of one hundred thirty three dollars per barrel some might add to the movement for the or the greater the niger delta. was still raising the money to the sell button development company monday. night when the state

governor every day or next year was enjoying the people on the all that was known to be turbines in the area here in grants that people had allowed to carry out such as generally being killing and maiming and said people. was. but it will. take a time had been driven into high managerial strike 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 continent for a deal that would permit them to return. to. this

my wife. and i live we are denied i thought if we don't fight the house so we need development schools i just walk down you know to go measure to something about. the group of local journalists committed to visit a tech ask him for a press conference. that will. be goes on sale. but there are some boys with guns tell him to cover their faces a. minute i'm not going to nobody tell them to arrange themselves ladner gunmen

does just. and i just do a demo don't go waste do that. i will get it. he does it every day. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for langley you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom hartman welcome to the big picture.

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good roads just like i was on oh you know that really everybody. their money they use in developing and i was just labels and i doubt it ever was one that i needed so we wanted them to use our money to achieve the low on how to. do that if he's to do that well maybe have various ideas on how has it been done for trying my properties i was fight back i must fight i'll fight and everybody should go i doubt he's dead governments i don't want to have problem with me i'll fight. to win and when we look back we're not fighting for i will not tell you. how can you have peace if you don't know. how i just went if i got governments and i was just a leftist but when you see sincerity you know if you would just this instead of him

call me what forms a. you know and i know. the president know that like like life doesn't like like everybody you know what is involved yeah. there's no parts guys you ok ok. but a lot. but you sure. can do it a lot. of times that we have some records from. where you from. did not give us that ok well. i will go you. know what i'm going to i mean i didn't go off i want to. say how long you've been here and we can't. you know for you. know you've done. this with us. and i've only stayed. i don't know two governments because.

you got my divorce was long thought so i. am only for the crimes you know that if my country conquered me. i lived. through nothing but i think. i'm going. to go. on and. we are facing a lot of problems in that. because no one thought to drink feel good school. no developments when you visit far. well. on somebody like. that is

a human rights activists. this. is a brutal fight. that. was for how many many names it was to go in my thinking. some people knew him to osama so they blew him to night at the pool and to me. on the enemies is to call him an enemy to. this man if it is my own he says you go to sweet girl he says. and we die if you don't think. up his mind. is the man that they kill of do not get after. them and dogs they kill off invoiced. 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 tech and where his own father fell short not nearly as comfortable brings out nice and so sweet so. i get some of it is so nice so cool. this is logical and i laughed. all bush flow bush. this is lord and fall say it is this what i call all day she. died we did nobody. with these evil presidents if you want to call us. but making it into a distro with me and i just game is my father. after i'd not taken a fall for me to where. i left everything. local

open official on loomis each and then also the dots and i might think of i think i'll cry retarded. if i want to know is that it is game or just say you got it for me the know. that those had never eaten flame. from the most it's. been called movietone dissolved. and my family you were way into that you would. have been here. about me yeah i think from from here. i don't want it to end its just that i gave birth to him but he is my child i hold

he was a good one i dont today and what are you trained him. and what a mood says i have six children three boys three goes tomorrow which imo is a good kid the wise hardworking daughter. mizen since two years she was not going on i want to see him. in my was living here until you get his primary school and he went to korea how to look for his father. and later you left when i saw him last one i was in the hospital and when he came out that was when they knocked i was operated let you know i really. to my aspiration was the last time i saw him stand i would like tina to come back so i will see him. i don't know i'll quote i welcome my friend and i'm in the. it's

a good day then if you go there and tell my son cheema that his mother was working on the farm. and i'm a gentle runner i thought he was dead when i fought the ditch i've gone to port harcourt to look for him i didn't see him i said maybe he's dead one though didn't move him up if you went any other place i don't know if. i'm going to tell but i was right about the no that was the last night i was. going to was that was how i don't i was i was. was good how did i know i do think. i'm going to go going i didn't get out

and i was going to take that. yeah to try it out they did. that they. didn't buy their meat from anybody i got on she said. she took the. up. front. right. now our work. was. done to you. it's morning. drink for you daddy signet for you to smoke so you love your. mom is not.

what i want to know you. are not out there. that. you are not what you got. that. was my fault. i do not have a laugh i would. like. to get. off

on. the. really scary. do. you. think i don't know what you're going to do but not when i make a. fuss if i don't i must fight i know some people. went to.

the not fire. never mind all right i said another there's another one i know. you don't like that very good but. what. do. you.

i mean on its own legs doesn't like that doesn't love here and i don't know where. the life and times to leave. does not become. the golf to do boosh. for my own side of domicile much i don't like that. i mean if there is an absolute is the one that doing it. is not the man i would be in the prison yard to do. i. doubt that.

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