A COMPELLING CASE FOR IMMEDIATE INTERVENTION TO SAVE THE CHILDREN OF THE NIGER DELTA WAS PRESENTED IN A RECENT TV DOCUMENTARY. LARGE NUMBERS OF CHILDREN THERE ARE BEING MAIMED, STARVED , CAST OUT OF VILLAGES , KILLED BECAUSE OF RELIGIOUS FANATICS WHO DECLARE THEM WIZARDS AND WITCHES.
THE VILE, BOMBASTIC WOMAN WHOSE BIZARRE DVD PROMOTING THE IDEA OF WIZARDS AND WITCHES SHOWED CHILDREN EATING HUMAN FLESH SHOULD BE CLAPPED IN IRONS AND THROWN INTO A DANK DUNGEON. THE REGION IS AWASH WITH PENTECOSTAL EXTREMISTS WHO TERRIFY THE SIMPLE COMMUNITY AND TEAR FAMILIES APART WITH THEIR PRIMITIVE , OBSCENE BELIEFS.
THE SIGHT OF AN OBVIOUS CHARLATAN IN A WHITE SURPLICE TREATING BOYS, FOR MONEY , WITH A CONCOCTION TO CAST OUT EVIL SPIRITS WAS SICKENING. THEN THERE WAS THE APPALLING CASE OF A SMALL GIRL BEING THREATENED BY A MAN WITH A MACHETE SAYING HE WOULD KILL HER IF SHE RETURNED TO A VILLAGE WITH HER MOTHER BECAUSE SHE WAS A WITCH . THE DOCUMENTARY MENTIONED THAT CATCHES BY FISHERMEN IN THE DELTA WERE POOR BECAUSE OF THE POLLUTION CAUSED BY THE OIL INDUSTRY. SO HERE WE HAVE ANOTHER SITUATION WHERE THE RESOURCES OF A COUNTRY ARE BEING EXPLOITED WITH NO BENEFIT TO THE LOCALS. THIS SITUATION DEMANDS IMMEDIATE,REPEAT IMMEDIATE, ACTION BY THE UNITED NATIONS OR THE UNION OF AFRICAN UNITY . ANYONE NOTICE ANY EXPRESSIONS OF INDIGNATION ABOUT THE PLIGHT OF THE NIGER CHILDREN IN THE LOCAL MEDIA ,POLITICIANS ?
