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The intervention of NGOs

CRARN, a non-governmental organization

formed to rescue children accused of witch-

craft in the Akwa Ibom state, was joined in alli-

ance with Stepping Stones Nigeria Child Em-

powerment Foundation (SSNCEF), a child rights

organization established in 2008 in response to

the trend of child abandonment arising from the

practise of child-witch accusations. With the

intervention of these organizations, child-witch

issues have become of great concern to Nigeri-

ans at home and around the world. While first-

hand stories are hard to come by due to pro-

tections provided for children by the NGOs that

support them and the government, the UK's

The Observer published a piece in 2007 that

shed light on some of the heart-wrenching sto-

ries of affected children; CNN carried similar

news in 2010:

Gerry was eight years old when he was picked

out at a prayer night and named a witch. His

father siphoned petrol from his motorcycle tank

and spat the petrol over Gerry’s face, blister-

ing his face severely. Mr Umoh, the Program

Officer of CRARN said that before Gerry left

the Rehabilitation center, he asked every adult

he saw if they would take him home to his par-

ents: 'It's not them, it's the prophetess, I am

scared of her.'

Mary was 7 years old when she was brought to

the center. It was said that when Mary’s

youngest brother died, the pastor of her church

told Mary’s mother that the younger brother

succumbed because Mary was a witch. “Three

men came to my house. I didn't know these

men. My mother left the house. She left these

men. They beat me.” She pushes her fists un-

der her chin to show how her father lay,

stretched out on his stomach on the floor of

their hut, watching. After the beating, there was

a trip to the church for a ‘deliverance'. The

next day she was taken for a walk in the bush

with her mother. The men picked poisonous

'asiri' berries that were made into a draught and

forced down her throat. Mary’s mother warned

Mary that if the berries did not kill her, then

she would be hanged with a barbed-wire. Fi-

nally her mother threw boiling water mixed

with caustic soda over Mary’s head and body

before her father abandoned her in a field.

Drifting in and out of consciousness, she

stayed near the house for a long time before

finally slinking off into the bush. Mary was

seven. She says she still doesn't feel safe.

She says: 'My mother doesn't love me.' And,

finally, a tear streaks down her beautiful face.

Prince and Rita were also kept in the home.

Rita told her mother she had a dream where

there was lots to eat and drink at a party.

The belief is that a witch flies away to the

coven at night while the body sleeps. Thus

Rita's sweet dream was proof enough that

she was a witch and because she had shared

food with her brother, the way witchcraft is

spread, both were abandoned by their parents

and were picked up by CRARN.

Marose was seven when her mother dug a pit

in the woods and tried to bury her alive,

whereas Michael was found by a farmer

clearing a ditch. Michael was said to be

starved and unable to stand on his thoroughly

flogged legs. He was accused of being re-

sponsible for the death of his mother.

When Mary was rescued by Gary Foxcroft,

the Programme Director of Stepping Stones

Nigeria in 2008, she was five years old. By

then the CRARN refugee home for witch-

branded children already had 150 other resi-

dents, all of whom had been blamed for their

family's woes and abandoned. Mr. Umoh of

Index:

Child-Witch Branding in Nigeria

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Untold Story of A Mystery Prophet

T.B. Joshua

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Two-year Old Joy Made to Sit Over a Stove by

Her Step Father

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Today’s Recipe is Ekpang Kukwo

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How & Why Is There No Recycling Business in

AKS, Nigeria?

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Nigerian Oil 6

South African Court Con-victs Nigerian for Deadly

Bombing

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Child-witch Branding in Nigeria

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Ostracized twins in a village

CRARN estimates that more than 5,000 chil-

dren have been branded in the Akwa Ibom

area of Nigeria since 1998. “Many bodies of

innocent children were dumped in the rivers

or in the forest and many were not found.” A

report made available by Mr. Edjo, Advocacy

Officer of SSNCEF, reveals the following: 105

cases resulted in serious injury on the chil-

dren; 233 cases resulted in abandonment; 28

cases in which accused children were miss-

ing; and five cases resulted to death.

Anthony Ebuk, a human rights lawyer, con-

firms that many children who were branded

child-witches have been murdered, hacked to

death with machetes, drowned, or buried alive

in attempts to ‘drive Satan’ out of them. He

sees these as calculated actions by church

leaders, parents, and communities to get rid

of them. He says, “it is a herculean task to

attempt to rescue these children. Parents

sometimes claim ‘this is my child’ and

therefore feel the freedom to do anything

they like with him or her.” He also shares

that in churches, children are tortured. Os-

tracising children from the community is very

common: some children are found wandering

in the nearby Abia State. Comrade Nelson of

Foundation for Environmental Rights, Advo-

cacy and Development in Abia State, said

that more than 50 children of Akwa Ibom

state origin have been seen walking aimlessly

on the streets of Aba in Abia state.

It is left unanswered why exactly the witch-

branding is usually targeted at children of 15

years downwards. Mrs. Imeh, a banker in La-

gos and an indigene of Akwa Ibom, says that

many families are disintegrating, and the fu-

tures of children-- our future leaders-- are

being shattered by the phenomenon of child-

witch stigmatization.

Government intervention

The attention of the government was drawn

to this issue by an accusatory documentary

by Mr. Foxcroft of SSNCEF, entitled Saving

Africa’s Witch Children. The documentary

put the government of Akwa Ibom state on

the spot for the crimes against its children,

prompting the state to sign into law the Child

Rights Act in December 2008. The Child

Rights Act protects children younger than 16

years old and ascertains their right to enjoy

physical, social and psychological well-being.

It also strengthens the mechanisms for the

defense and protection of children, as well as

criminalizes child abuse. Despite its seemingly

thorough terms, Barrister Ebuk reports that

implementation of the act is often faulty as

judges have thus far failed to prosecute of-

fenders. He says that some attorneys do not

even know of the law’s existence in the

state.

The Governor of the state, Godswill Akpabio

went further to establish a six-person Witch-

craft Commission of Inquiry in May 2011. The

Commission is mandated to make recommen-

dations on the incidence of witchcraft and

child abuse in the state. A government official

confirmed for the writing of this piece that

the commission is actively investigating cases

of child abuse related to witch-branding.

CRARN sees the intervention by government

as a relief. Mr. Umoh says that since the in-

ception of the Child Rights Act and establish-

ment of the Commission, child-witch branding

cases have decreased in the state. A report

made available by CRARN indicates that

more than 170 children have been success-

fully reunited with their parents. Nine children

are still at the CRARN center, about 185

children were relocated to the government’s

Special Children’s Center, and a good num-

ber are cared for at the Divine Children’s

Center, an institution also established by the

government in conjunction with a private or-

ganization. For the children who are still living

at the centers, hope still exists that they can

be reunited with their parents soon.

To fully eliminate the phenomenon of child-

witch accusation and stigmatization in Nige-

ria, NGOs need to invest in intensified efforts

to raise awareness of the issue among the

people. The law enforcement agencies must

prosecute the religious prophets who derive

affluence and wealth from branding innocent

children as witches, causing families and

communities to all but disintegrate. Unveiling

the Mysteries of Witchcraft, and End of the

Wicked, two materials

portraying children in the devastating light of

a witchcraft accusation, should be proscribed.

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The Child Rights Act

protects children younger

than 16 years old and

ascertains their right to

enjoy physical, social and

psychological well-being.

It also strengthens the

mechanisms for the

defense and protection of

children, as well as

criminalizes child abuse.

( Continued from page 1, “Child-Witch Branding...”)

Inauguration of the Witch-Craft

Commssion

This article is part of a writing assignment for Voices of Our Future, a program of World

Pulse that provides rigorous new media and citizen journalism training for grassroots women leaders. World Pulse lifts and unites

the voices of women from some of the most unheard regions of the world. The article runs four series and this is the final. The

writer, Celine Ebere Osukwu, is the board member of SWACIN.

Mary was rescued by Mr. Gary

Foxcroft

Preachers openly declare that the

child is a witch

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success is a two-sided

affair. I have a role to

play, God has His own

role. It is not all up to

God and certainly it’s

all not up to me. Suc-

cess is a kind of part-

nership between man

and God. I cannot de-

fine failure, because I

don’t believe in failure.

By Mike Awoyinfa & Dimgba Igwe

“You will begin to succeed

with your life when the pains

and problems of others be-

gins to matter to you.”—TB

Joshua

“We make a living by what we get; we

make a life by what we give.”—TB

Joshua

childhood, I was passionate about the Bible. Right from primary school, I was well versed

in Bible knowledge. It was my favourite sub-ject and I excelled in it. As a primary six kid, I read the New Testament twice. In my sec-ondary school days, I finished reading the Bible on the average of two months. Every two months, I would have read the

Bible from Genesis to Revelation. It was the only subject that I believed so much in. It was as if Bible was the only subject that interested me in primary and secondary schools. In exams, I scored 99 percent con-sistently whereas I performed woefully in other subjects. My excelling in Bible

knowledge affected the other subjects where I performed poorly. At school, I was the lead-er of the Scripture Union. Even though I was second in primary school, I didn’t find it easy getting admitted into secondary school. As luck would have it, I got late admission into Muslim College. In that

Muslim College, we were restricted from car-rying the Bible openly. To read the Bible, we would have to hide under the mango tree or backyard and the Muslim community would begin to chase us. We were all 20 in number then. Like the early Christians, we would read

the Bible in secrecy because they never al-lowed us to do it openly. I was the leader of the Christian team in the school, at Ansar-Ud-deen Grammar School, Ikare. And be-cause of the pressure, I couldn’t finish a year in that school. It was obvious I couldn’t fit into this dominantly Muslim setting. So I

left the school. I left because my life was in danger. I could sense that since I was doing this thing secretly, one day something could happen to me. To avoid that I had to leave. From Ikare, I came to Lagos.

My first attempt at discovering God’s spirit

in me was when a mad man came to my

school. In those days, I used to be called

Small Pastor. One morning a madman came

to our school with a cutlass and everybody

was running helter-skelter. The teachers all

fled and the classroom was empty. I came

and saw this mad person. The spirit of God

P rophet T. B. (Temitope Balogun) Joshua needs no introduction. He is

already known for his prophesy for predicting the death of Michael Jackson, Steave Jobs, and the fire attack at the Universal Studio.

Everybody has his or her reason for liking or hating the controversial founder of The Syna-gogue, Church Of All Nations, a Christian min-istry with a growing fanatical following. T.B. Joshua, the religious leader whom many evan-gelical church leaders would not want to be

associated with, because they believe he should not be in the fold of real born again Christians. Every success story started from somewhere. I was brought up from a Christian home. My father’s name is Kolawole Balogun. He was a

Christian. He was a farmer who was also the secretary to St. Steven’s church in our village. When the white people came to our village, he served as a translator. He was translating Eng-lish into Yoruba. He was an educated man. He lived with the white people as well as serving as church secretary. I cannot say much about

my father because he died when I was a small boy. I know that he loved me a lot. I was his pet. I was the one who suffered most from the effect of his death. Being the last born, any-where he is going, he would take me along. He would carry me to the church. As a little boy, I would be running inside the church. I would

jump from the choir to the catechist’s table. Some people used to rumour that my father was a Muslim. I don’t know where they got that from. My father was a Christian and I am a Christian. When I was very small, I could re-call him taking me to church regularly. As a kid

attending primary school, my dad would make me to stay after school with a Catholic priest whose house was at the back of the church. I did all the normal things kids do, like running around and playing football. When my father died, my mum’s brother who became the father figure to me was a Muslim.

That does not make me a Muslim. I was brought up in a Christian home. And right from

UNTOLD STORY OF A MYSTERY

PROPHET TB JOSHUA

(Continued to page 4)

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spoke to my heart, not to my ear. I

hear the voice of God in my heart and

not in my ears. I heard the voice of

God telling me: “Go there and collect

the cutlass. Just tell the madman to

bring the cutlass.” When I was moving

towards the madman, everybody was

concerned for my safety. They were

saying something like: ‘This is boy, he

wants to die.’ I just went to the mad-

man and commanded him: “Give me

this cutlass, in the name of Jesus.”

The madman gave me the cutlass. I

collected it and gave it to a teacher. It

was from there they started calling

me Small Pastor. From there, they

would call me in the assembly and ask

me to pray for them. Every time I

would pray for them. If they want to

play football, I would pray for them.

They began to come to me individually

for prayers. It was pray for me, pray

for me, pray for me all the way. They

asked me how I was able to overcome

the madman and I told them I was

surprised myself to see what hap-

pened. ...I used to tell my mum: success is a two-sided affair. I have a role to play, God has His own role. It is not all up to God and certainly it’s all not up to

me. Success is a kind of partnership between man and God. I cannot define failure, because I don’t believe in failure.

There is no failure in my book. All I see is success, directed by the spirit of God. But as human beings, we cannot be per-fect. Perfection eludes every human being. God is perfection.

Source: http://distanceisnotabarri er.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/tb-joshua-biography-this-is-my-story/

Citizen Reports

S hock and disbelief gripped the Com-mission of Inquiry into Witchcraft Accusation and Child Abuse inaugu-

rated by Governor Godswill Obot Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State, as it received a two year old girl who had been badly burnt in the buttocks by her step-father. The child was forced to sit on a glowing fire by her Step-father, one Assam Bassey Amanam, a 35 year old man from Esit Eket who lives in Efoi Eket. Mr. Assam also branded the child with a hot machetes in different parts of her, including her legs, palms and her private parts, according to her mother, Imabong. “When I returned back from the stream, I saw Assam putting my child on fire with hot machetes in his hand branding her too. I shouted on him and raised alarm. When people stated coming, he brandished the weapons against them too. When he real-ised that a lot of people were coming he locked up my three month old daughter, picked a motorbike and ran away…” Ima-bong told the commission. A member of the commission, and medical doctor, Dr Okon Edet Akaiso who exam-ined the two year old expressed shock at the level of the inhumane and degrading

treatment meted out on the little innocent girl. “This is not an accident; it is a delib-erate act…” Dr Akaiso said. Responding to questions on how she came to the commission, Imabong said that she was taken to CRARN Children Centre Ikot Afaha, Eket where the child was given first aid treat,e and food by director, Mr. Sam Itauma who gave her transportation and attached a staff to take her to the commission. “He gave me N2,000 for transportation and asked one of his staff to take me here. He also

asked one of the staff to go and get the police…” The Chairman of the Commission, His Lordship, Justice Godwin Abraham, promised to send a letter of summon to the man to come and answer questions on why he carried out such brutality on the little child. “This is not something we should take for granted. If he does not come here, I will issue a warrant of arrest on him,” said Justice Abraham.

The Commissioner for Justice and Attor-ney General of Akwa Ibom State, Barris-ter Ekpenyong Ntekim, who was appar-ently in the commission to cross-examine the Child’s Right and Rehabili-tation Network (CRARN), out of sympa-thy to the child, doled out the sum of N5000 to assist in her medical treat-ment. “This is the prize the society has to pay for superstition; and this why the governor sets up this commission,” Ntekim maintained. On why he referred the child to the com-mission, Mr Itauma sent an SMS, “This is what we are being crucified for. But when a two year old child is burnt on fire on account of witchcraft accusation, we therefore don’t need diagnosis to tell whether we need psychologists or psy-chiatrists to settle our cases.’’ Apparently stunned by this spectre of disbelief, this reporter headed for Effoi Eket where he met the mother to Mr Assam Amanam (Mrs Ekaete Amanam), who out of lamentation sang her nunc dimittis thus: “Assam does not allow me to rest. He wants to kill that small child as he brought people to kill his father in 2001. That time many people were killed. They say they were witches. My hus-band was not a witch. That is Kufre, his brother. He has broken his head. See, I take care of his children but he beats me as he likes. When police comes, he runs away. Nobody to help me arrest him.” Source: http://saharareporters.com/news-

page/step-father-sets-two-year-old-girl-fire-over-witchcraft-disturbing-photo-viewer-discretion

2-year- old Joy made to sit over a stove by her step father News & Reports Akwa Ibom State News & Reports March 13, 2011

Witch-craft Commission

(center: Judge Theresa Obot,

SWACIN resource person)

Disturbing photo of the burned child

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How & Why Is There No Recycling Business In AKS?

I have never seen recycling or used goods

shops in Uyo city, Akwa-Ibom state. I used

to think that the Akwa-Ibonite (people in

Akwa-Ibom state), like many poor people, would

be thrilled to have used clothes, shoes, kitchen

items and furniture in good conditions. When I

found that no one wanted used goods, it became

such a big mystery in my mind. There was

strange reactions from the people when used

clothes, shoes, dishes and scanners on sale were

presented to them.

A lady in my neighborhood came to see me and

sat down to drink tea with me. So I asked her

why Nigerians weren’t into collecting used goods.

“It’s witch-craft.” She said. I looked at her in

disbelief. “Isn’t all the automobiles in Nigeria are

used?” She answered, “They are safe because

they are from foreign countries.” I was amazed.

They do not believe in the products used by their

own people? But they believe that any foreign

goods are free from witch-craft. No wonder Nige-

rian shops do not accept returned goods! Once

you purchase products from a shop, they would

not take back even if the products were mistaken-

ly purchased or badly defective. Sometimes peo-

ple find defective electronic appliances when they

take it home after paying good sum of money for

it. It would be such a waste of money if they

cannot return the goods. This also means that

there’d never have enough money since there is

no guarantee that they receive something equal to

the value they pay for. No matter how much

money they have, people feel it is lacking all the

time. I heard often their expressions: “Money is

nothing.” Such waste of money and goods, not

only inconvenient for the people, but also contrib-

ute to the huge amount of waste and environmen-

tal disaster. (Nagashima)

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N igeria has become Africa's biggest producer of petroleum. Some 2 million barrels (320,000 m3) a day are extract-ed in the Niger Delta. It is estimated

that 38 billion barrels of crude oil still reside under the delta as of early 2012. First oil operations in the region originated in 1950s and were undertaken by Multinational Corporations, which provided Nigeria with necessary technological and financial resources to extract oil. Since 1975, the region has accounted for more than 75% of Nigeria's export earnings. Together oil and natural gas extraction comprise “97

per cent of Nigeria’s foreign exchange revenues”. Much of the natural gas extracted in oil wells in the Delta is immediately burned, or flared, into the air at a rate of approximately 70 million m³per day. This is equivalent to 41% of African natural gas con-sumption, and forms the largest single source of greenhouse gas emissions on the planet. In 2003, about 99% of excess gas was flared in the Niger

Delta, although this value has fallen to 11% in 2010.(See also, gas flaring volumes). The biggest gas

flaring company is the Shell Petroleum Develop-ment Company of Nigeria Ltd, a joint venture that is majority owned by the Nigerian government. In Nigeria, “...despite regulations introduced 20 years

ago to outlaw the practice, most associated gas is flared, causing local pollution and contributing to climate change.” The environmental devastation associated with the industry and the lack of distribu-tion of oil wealth have been the source and/or key aggravating factors of numerous environmental movements and inter-ethnic conflicts in the region, including recent guerilla activity by the Movement

for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND). In September 2012 Eland Oil & Gas purchased a 45% interest in OML 40, with its partner Starcrest Energy Nigeria Limited, from the Shell Group. They intent to recommission the existing infrastructure and restart existing wells to re-commence produc-tion at an initial gross rate of 2,500 bopd with a

target to grow gross production to 50,000 bopd within four years. Source: Wikipedia

MEND says it is fighting for

fairer distribution of Nigeria's

oil money

Indigenes living near Niger Delta

T he Nigerian government has condemned a

new threat from the Movement for the Eman-

cipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) - a mili-

tant group that has been claiming responsibility for

attacks on oil companies, bombings and kidnappings

since 2006.

In a threat made public over the weekend, MEND said

it plans to attack Nigerian officials, South African

companies, and oil reserves and refineries in Nigeria

and beyond in response to the conviction of their for-

mer leader, Henry Okah, in South Africa.

Okah was convicted last week on 13 charges related to

a 2010 car bombing that killed 12 people here in the

Nigerian capital.

“What we expect at this time is that all Nigerians

should show a higher level of patriotism and commit-

ment to our country," Nigerian Minister of Infor-

mation Labaran Maku said Sunday, condemning the

threat, as unpatriotic. "We cannot live in a nation

where we abandon the law.”

Okah is accused of being a MEND leader, a charge he

denies. In 2010, he called himself a “sympathizer”

while speaking on the phone to Al-Jazeera television

from a Johannesburg jail shortly after being arrested at

Nigeria’s request.

Information minister Maku says the fact that Okah

was tried in South Africa should diffuse anger directed

towards Nigeria by militant groups.

“Henry Okah was tried in South Africa under the due

process of the laws of the Republic of South Afri-

ca and was found guilty of committing acts of

terrorism," Maku noted. "The South Africans

convicted him. It would be very shocking if any

Nigerian or any group of Nigerians would take

this against their own country.”

Between 2003 and 2009 the oil-rich Niger Delta

was a virtual war zone, as MEND and several

other armed groups fought foreign and govern-

ment oil companies with the tacit support of the

general population. Most of the 31 million people

in the region live on less than $1 day amid envi-

ronmental disasters caused by oil spills and many

locals still see as 'freedom fighters' those whom

the government calls 'militants.'

Nigeria is Africa's largest oil exporter and the

fifth-largest crude oil supplier to the United

States. People in the Niger Delta generally be-

lieve they have a right to profit from the oil pro-

duced in their region.

The insurgency in the Niger Delta quieted after

the government began offering amnesty to mili-

tants in 2009. But analysts say militancy is again

on the rise because the rebels' grievances have

never been addressed.

Source: http://www.voanews.com/content/nigeria-

condemns-new-mend-threat/1592134.html

South African Court Convicts Nigerian

for Deadly Bombing Purnell Murdock January 28, 2013

Niger Delta petroleum pollution

is the worst case in history ac-

cording to the U.N. studies.

Gas flare in Niger Delta

Nigerian Oil

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the world's biggest environmental problem and help the victims

of violence.

When you are purchasing the good above, please call us, (＋81 886 96 5417） fax

(＋81 886 96 5418）or email to info@swacin.com and let us know your name,

address, telephone numbers, the name of the product, the product no., quantity,

price. It takes about one week to deliver the good after the confirmation of

payment.

Instead of you do the social work in order to alleviate the problems,

SWACIN would:

• Help the employees and workers to be aware and contribute to the

social development.

• Help make the employees and workers to understand human

rights and child labors

• Show public that your organization is aiming at business without

child labor or environmental disaster.

Pay your donation to

Bank Name: Tokushima Bank Ahoku branch

Account No.: Regular Account 8541814

Name of the Account: Support Women and Children in Nigeria

(SWACIN)

Board of Director: Hideko Nagashima

Volunteer: Your volunteer work or internship in Tokushima, Ja-pan office ranges from survey research, creating events, letters, documents, web site, newsletters, and translating etc. Want to start your own NGO/NPO? Or want to know how to do it? You want to

see how it is? You sure will get far more out of the experience by sharing the work of humanity. If you are interested, call, email or visit our Japan office!

Work on Site: Working in Nigeria is risky. Note that you may get

into trouble by theft, fraud or kidnapping. Therefore, we arrange safety orientations before the trip to Nigeria. The available works in Nigeria will be listed time to time in the journals.

If you have questions or inquiries, please feel free to

call (+81-(0)88-696-5417) fax (+81-(0)88-696-5418)

or email (info@swacin.com)

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Tokushima-ken Japan 771-1402

tel: 088-696-5417 / 090-1173-9378

fax: 088-696-5418

email: info@swacin.com

Next Survival Gadget May Edition

reports… Hunger in Nigeria: Calling for Strategic

Focus of International Development Aids・Kingsway International Christian Centre・

Henry Okah・Visiting CCECC in Akwa Ibom

State・Foreign Aid in Nigeria...The Hidden

Agenda・How to Make Puff Puff...

My dear Japanese Friends,

My name is Richard Ingwe. I am a sustainable development

specialist, a member of Nigeria’s official UN-REDD+ (i.e.

the United Nations Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation - plus sustaina-

ble development) Research Team; Nigeria’s UN-REDD+

Network; and the African UN-REDD+ Network. UN-REDD+ Nigeria pilot

project in Cross River State, one of Nigeria’s 36 states, is being funded

through a four million (US) Dollar grant. It involves collaboration among non-

governmental organizations, university academics/students, businesses, and

experts in the specialized subjects including forest/soil conservation sociolo-

gy, economics, geography to achieve sustainable development in Nigeria’s

forest communities while reducing global climate change/variability through

reforestation/afforestation.

I manage research programmes and set research agenda at Africa’s leading sustainable development think-tank, the Centre for Research and Action on

Developing Locales, Regions and the Environment (CRADLE) and the Uni-

versity of Calabar’s IPPA. My over 120 research papers —nearly 50 of them

published or accepted for publication by peer-reviewed journals, and another

24 published in technical reports and books, mostly profess spatially organised

sustainable development strategies. I am working with a United Kingdom

University towards the award of a doctoral degree in human geography. I am a

researcher trained in multi-/interdisciplinary approaches covering social sci-

ences, regional development planning / management, geography, geospatial

information sciences (remote sensing, image processing, cartography, etc,)

and sustainable energy. A post-graduate of spatial/regional development plan-ning/management at University of Dortmund (Germany), I was adjudged

“best graduating student in the geography”, University of Port Harcourt.

After reading a few of my numerous articles, SWACIN’s committed Director,

Ms. Nagahims asked if I was willing to support and promote the interests of

disadvantaged women and children of Nigeria’s Niger Delta: SWACIN’s core

activity. Ms. Nagashim’s conviction that I am committed towards eradicating

discrimination by Nigeria’s elite against the poor women and children arose

from: her appreciation of my affirmative response to her request; her confir-

mation of directions that I gave her to find/review more of my academic pa-

pers professing development strategies ideas arising from my immense

knowledge; her appreciation of the fact that I’ve spent over 25 years of my 50-years professing/promoting sustainable development. Married with children,

I’m a person who has lived in Europe, enjoyed the flavour of thousands of

dishes (food preparations) and cultures –originating from Nigerian or other

countries of the world.

I know that Nigeria’s national reputation has been tarnished due to fraudulent

activities perpetrated by some Nigerians. I accept to correct some misrepre-

sentations of the image of Nigeria/Nigerians -by answering questions asked by

our concerned Japanese friends and will continue to do so. In doing so, I clari-

fy how the challenges faced by women and children reflect some of the prob-

lems hampering a larger proportion of Nigeria’s total population in their quest for enjoying better living standards.

（Mr. Richard Ingwe, Manager of the Centre for Research and Action on De-

veloping Locales, Regions and the Environment (CRADLE) and the Universi-ty of Calabar’s IPPA)

Mr. Richard has computer connection problem and has a break from the Nigeria Q

& A in this June edition. Please understand that the facilities in Nigeria are not all

effective and efficient as people in advanced nations assume. We are very sorry for

the inconvenience. Thank you for your patience.

Greeting from Board of Director, Richard Ingwe

S WACIN（Support Women and Children

in Nigeria) are now proceeding to offer new tech-

nology and business development training to wom-

en of disability and poverty at Foundation for

Disabled Persons, Lagos as a part of the project so

that they earn independent living. There are about

15 clients. Let us introduce them the way to be-

come independent. Take note that electricity, wa-

ter, transportation or internet are not supplied

sufficiently at all times.

For example, techniques to increase the production

of agricultural produce, or commercial oven to

make bread easier on wheel chairs. Solar heaters

and cars are very helpful. Their daily problems of

light would be resolved by

this.

If we take your idea to place

it on the newsletter, we will

send you a T-shirt with a

illustration, “Fallen Angel”

done by Nigerian artist,

Bishop Akpan (right). Send

us email and get more infor-

mation.

Email: info@swacin.com

Attenti

on!

Let’s Think

about the

Way to Survival!