SAVE QUEENSTOWN-OPOBO!

My hometown, Queenstown-Opobo, an island in the Niger Delta of Nigeria, is threatened with drastic coastal erosion that could make the whole island dissapear in the next ten years(!), thus creating hundreds of thousands of internally-displaced persons in this already-tense and marginalised region of Nigeria's oil-rich (yet highly-impoverished) peoples.

We are about to embark on agitative processes to force the Federal and State governments to actively impact this environment for the better, by starting with a shoreline-protection programme that will guarantee the survival of this very-historic island that has been marginalised and forgotten by countless administrations in Nigeria!

This agitation will include petitions; TV Documentaries, Press features, interviews, and news-reports; and peaceful (by God's grace!) demonstrations, rallies, and marches on the streets of Lagos, Abuja, Port-Harcourt, and Opobo!

The people are determined to pay all costs to ensure their island's future, without prejudice to the simultaneous struggles to gain their dues as vitims of the environmental and human disaster that confronts every Niger Delta locale and people in Nigeria's current lopsided federalism which has bastardised the very hen that lays the golden eggs that make Nigeria, as a whole, survive!

We are confident in the victory of good over evil!

Shalom!!!