Writing about the Niger Delta crisis is something i have avoided for a long time but after seeing this movie:
Blood and Oil written by Guy Hibbert and directed by David Artwood. I have gained some considerable insight into the Niger Delat Complexity.
Like it or not i believe this movie somehow is a fair assessment of the situation maybe not in total alliance with the fictional plot of the movie but in the message. From the local dialects and pidgin english used to the locations and cast (not toattly) the Blood and Oil movie produced for the BBC is a must watch.
Mark Unwin is one of four employees of Krielsen International oil co
mpany captured by militant group MEND
whilst they are working in Nigeria his wife Claire flies out with Alice Onuko, Nigerian-born,British-raised P.R. consultant for Krielsen. When the women arrive in Port Harcourt they are told a ransom has been agreed - as is the norm since MEND depends on ransoms to fund itself.
However when civil rights worker Keme, acting as go-between, escorts the women to the handover place they find only the corpses of Mark and his co-workers. Next day Claire meets a journalist who tells her the men were killed by the Nigerian government after their release by MEND and he is himself later found dead.
She also learns that he was having an affair with Angel, a prostitute,whom she confronts but who is whisked
away in a car before she can say anything. Alice is equally shocked to find that her father has made his money less than scrupulously from oil.
Keme is jailed but Alice levers Tunde,the police chief, into releasing him despite Tunde's efforts to silence her.
Keme takes Alice and Claire deep into the jungle to meet MEND leader Ebi who swears that Mark's murderers were Nigerian officers under Tunde and his men,who staged the massacre to blame MEND.
I could go on and on but this movie is better appreciated when watched.
Blood and Oil written by Guy Hibbert and directed by David Artwood. I have gained some considerable insight into the Niger Delat Complexity.
Like it or not i believe this movie somehow is a fair assessment of the situation maybe not in total alliance with the fictional plot of the movie but in the message. From the local dialects and pidgin english used to the locations and cast (not toattly) the Blood and Oil movie produced for the BBC is a must watch.
Mark Unwin is one of four employees of Krielsen International oil co
mpany captured by militant group MENDwhilst they are working in Nigeria his wife Claire flies out with Alice Onuko, Nigerian-born,British-raised P.R. consultant for Krielsen. When the women arrive in Port Harcourt they are told a ransom has been agreed - as is the norm since MEND depends on ransoms to fund itself.
However when civil rights worker Keme, acting as go-between, escorts the women to the handover place they find only the corpses of Mark and his co-workers. Next day Claire meets a journalist who tells her the men were killed by the Nigerian government after their release by MEND and he is himself later found dead.
She also learns that he was having an affair with Angel, a prostitute,whom she confronts but who is whisked
away in a car before she can say anything. Alice is equally shocked to find that her father has made his money less than scrupulously from oil.
Keme is jailed but Alice levers Tunde,the police chief, into releasing him despite Tunde's efforts to silence her.
Keme takes Alice and Claire deep into the jungle to meet MEND leader Ebi who swears that Mark's murderers were Nigerian officers under Tunde and his men,who staged the massacre to blame MEND.
I could go on and on but this movie is better appreciated when watched.
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