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It's often alluded that the people of the Niger Delta region are vicious and thirsty for violence. i would always counter and re-counter that view.
few weeks ago, i visited a town in one of th emost densed interior region of the Niger Delta, its a town situated in Bayelsa State - Elebele town. The scenery of the life, culture and attitude of people living in this community, brought to the fore the continuous agitation of the people of the Niger Delta for a better life. Though the militancy acts carried out in some areas of the Niger Delta, far outweighs the true fight for a better life, but such acts which are often out of context, are expressions of the debauched life of their people - young & old, upcoming generations and even generations yet unborn.
Elebele is a town, with about 6,000 inhabitants (including young and old), it's mostly dominated by Ogbia people and minors like the Ijaws, Uhrobos and the Ibos. Though there are good motorable roads, but there is lack of basic amenities like schools, hospitals and regular electricity and water supply. 80% of the populace are illetrates; the pregnancy rate is high due to low rate of unemployment. 95% of the inhabitants live below 1US$ a day. They live in mud houses and water-slum-sheds as in riverine areas. The facial expressions of these people attests to the ill-life lived by the majority of them.
From my survey carried out, it's basically proven that there is a clear-cut to the solution of the problems of the people of the Niger Delta Region.
Using Elebele as a case study, if there is a higher institution(s) in the area of even well equipped secondary schools, the illiteracy level would be reduced, thus affording the settlers of the town job opportunities in their own area. Those who are employoed with common SSCE results/no results often end up as foremen, labourers, truck drivers, messenger and engage in other menial jobs in such 'rich' firms.
Majority of the girls get pregnant at an early age, due to the poverty level in the region. They are not employed and therefore would resort to any illicit vice that would put food on their tables - not for themselves alone, but also for such children who are being denied of fatherhood. If vocational institutions are established in this area, it would do a great deal and help to an exigent level in the curbing of such destitual habits. Majority of the populace are sicklings and are often debarred from healthy medicals.
i could not help, but watch with keep sorrowful-awe, the plight of these people, whose land produces the wealth of their nation and even enrigh other countries of the world. It is definitely truesome, that the militants and other fighting agency will continue to agitate for goodlife - comewhatmay!
Trying to proffer solutions at the surface is not the solution to peace in the Niger Delta Region; lets go to the interiors (remote villages) where the people of the Niger Delta regions live a substandard life. They are humans like all of us and so deserve the best of the best that life has to offer.
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