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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 a player six power of oil on the planet but in the niger delta region that produces hundreds of million dollars in oil and gas each year the average person lives on less than one dollar per day there are no this school no good roads no good hospitals every year over three hundred oil spills contaminate the region and

constant flaring pressed 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. and kidnapped foreign oil workers. to live my good actually did i had to leave my dad. me 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. but that bad. guy about your new book.

every i'm going to tell you through. all of who got you in just how i got it all why did not you call we don't like your boss yes or like your fault you yelled at a yes or you want my butt out to ludlum yes. yes or yes but i don't and i doubt yes or few footy 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 this is 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 patrolled 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 oil. we passed by bonnie island where 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 it. the government we have been a doing the event not to god not to him. not to know about. and i joke. do you think they're no longer here. but 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've carry some people in this big bed and they bend to. it but doesn't it. is the cargo hold michael says 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. a new home and. are they dragging the other speedboat along there using their guns to signal each other. even in the midst of the conflict some ordinary life takes its course and its twenty three year old named mom goes into labor for. food. and the man came. 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. that is. not a minute you're going to want to give you this route to to. take it in sure you

come on. to it stand up. for you this thing is no better take it with the pepper and chew it don't know it i don't like i love it take it quickly come on . my stomach hurts if you're cheering it you latest initiative already done. all this once the demos are gone and this is. all of them is no speak to your body did i didn't you. is the cause is a need to we would and knows how to give us i love you. oh good lord this given space. it's all in me. no complications arise as much as such it's all over. now i. want to come out now oh god you can do it do it oh do to zeus the baby emerges then build the

cord was wrapped around his neck and he has not reached nobody i know. a lot of. life is that enough do you need sun. done too long or too down i do it to first do it to dying take take the sun. bring more bring more what's happened. the reason you. want. 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 they.

you guys are like you've got a. lot of guys. during my time in h.r. 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. methods aside the niger delta cause to which the militants have 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 the 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. a record high of one hundred thirty three dollars per barrel of mine to the limits of the greater the niger delta. all until recently launched the salvage on development

company monday. every day are next to enjoin the people. known to be terrorizing the area that people had allowed to carry out such as generally being killing and maiming and he said people. out. of them. that it would. take a time had been driven into hiding by nigeria's taskforce he retaliated with an attack on the presidential hotel nevertheless he has boys are fitted to hide his 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. with. about

. this my wife. we have in mind i thought if you don't fight the house so we need development schools i just walk down you know to go to measure to something about some. group of local journalists committed to visit to take this camp for a press conference. that will. go through so.

that there are some boys with guns telling to cover their faces. very minute i'm not going to nobody tell them to arrange themselves does just. what it would. do that. i will forget it. please speak or language. will programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on. reporting from the will talks about six of the ip interviews intriguing story to tell you. that troy t. arabic to find out more visit our big teeth dog called.

about international and world in the very heart of moscow. and i and i did. well in it developments. of what is cool and everett's in good roads just like a bridge on oh yeah that really everybody does their money then goes into villepin and then i would john labels and i doubt it out of those one legged on its soul wants to dent the one on his head and. event of his to do that's what may be a very sad he's kind humble done for charm and pop artist i was fights back i was fights all fights and everybody should go at odds he's dead governments i don't want to have problem with me i'll fight them. so when we got back when if i

didn't i would not tell you it's going to. how can you have peace if you don't do that without how i just when you forgot governments and. all that is. when you see sincerity you know if you would. this is said to me what forms of you know i know. the president no not like like like something like like everybody you know what does evolve. is not what's got his you ok ok. for the last. sixty. soon do to live. and be off to the you know some records from. where you from. my life in that regards the people that well. i will go you. know what i'm going to do you not didn't go off i want to.

see how long you've been here and the kid. went off on. what you've done. with them and eloise day. i don't know two governments all because. as you go tonight you've also been lost so i thought i. did i mean if the friends you know if my country congressman i believe is fist. to nothing but i mean. i'm not going to. come from us. i mean 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 activists. is if. all that. was for how many many millions. of people to. do now that the. enemies used to call him and to. this man if it is my. own i mean if you. is among that

they tell of do not get at them. they fell off the invoice. 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 techie where his own father fell short. out nice and so sweet so. i get some of. this is logical. this is lord in full suit this is a dishy. body. with these evil brzezinski. cloyd's.

what making it into destroy and that is game is my father. after i'd not taken a fall for me to where. i left everything. open official louis 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 it's. got i've only been on the. haydn everything's looking up from in most it's. been called i've read all of these old. and my mom a murder way into that i. have

a hammer. and two new yeah i think from from here. p. m. one hundred nineteen his mother who is just that i didn't gave birth to him but he is my child there was a good one i don't today and i trained him. and. i have six children three boys three goes to my own time raise a good kid the wise hardworking or de garmo. mizen since do. i want to see him. there was a vision here until he died in his his primary school 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 my mark i was operated. with i really want to see. to my operation was the last time i saw him so i would like tina to come back to i will see him. i work on my for. you know. good if you go there and that his mother was working on the farm. i make sure no one or 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 any other place i don't know. you know what i was excited about we know there was alcohol and i was. smoking was that was that was how i got

that i was. good out i. really believe i'm going going going to be good how do those who are. yet to try it out a good. thing. to do about it but i did my job i got i decided. to stick the fix on the mobile world. on the drugs. for me over the five. o'clock out about what was going on. but then the minute time to do its thing before i was it's morning and 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. mona's to the. good of all the time oh god no i doubt it's god like i grew up under the law and i did i'm like i'm not going to be i'm going to talk about it as well you know what i'm going to live i want to do what i know you by the way not that you did not would not like that i was happy i think that you've got going to look at what the one thing that was i was not marriageable with you know not yet somehow you know with your go bang i'm feeling a little bit louder the world i'm going off about that's awkward i thought i was a good. example. well you know good stuff. ok let's go to the bible. i don't want to do what i know there's. an idea that i'm that guy and i go out there. that i would you know we all would want.

to. go down to the political. point of. view kind of what he did with that right there just fine it would have been. my dad's god damn i've done enough of that i would. like. to thank you for that. oh. you know. what. i mean really. we know who. we're almost. out of. i mean i don't i for one of the hundred document. welcoming times.

i don't know the fall but if i don't i'm a fight i'm not somebody. i must have a comp went to fight. or not fire and. next time i know i am on i should and i think there's a lot and i'm not. going to. get a good. number and. who knows. what might not. oh i do lou i thank you ok thank you. i just i haven't got any you know. how do you say you know oh my god you know you're is i'm doing well you know. what you'll

have. to have a few clothes off. my god. oh. ok. he. was for days yeah. i may have had some bugs does a. rat on the ark. and tries to leave fiona to come from. the gulf. to do boosh if. you feel. my own side of the muslim which i don't like to kill i mean that these god's will

is the one thing that. is not. i would be in the prison yet it's a big. part . of the going down of the song and good morning we will remember that we were we were bad.

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