This is the story of the first oil war, which was fought in the 19th century, in the area that became Nigeria.
All through the 19th century, palm oil was highly sought-after by the British, for use as an industrial lubricant for machinery. Remember that Britain was the world’s first industrialised nation, so they needed resources such as palm oil to maintain that.
Palm oil, of course, is a tropical plant, which is native to the Niger Delta. Malaysia’s dominance came a century later. By 1870, palm oil had replaced slaves as the main export of the Niger Delta, the area which was once known as the Slave Coast. At first, most of the trade in the oil palm was uncoordinated, with natives selling to those who gave them the best deals. Native chiefs such as former slave, Jaja of Opobo became immensely wealthy because of palm oil. [Side Note: The same way the Ramaphosas and the Motsepes are trying to sell State Owned Enterprises in South Africa to accumulate more wealth].With this wealth came influence.
However, among the Europeans, there was competition for who would get preferential access to the lucrative oil palm trade. In 1879, George Goldie formed the United African Company (UAC), which was modelled on the former East India Company. Goldie effectively took control of the Lower Niger River. By 1884, his company had 30 trading posts along the Lower Niger. This monopoly gave the British a strong hand against the French and Germans in the 1884 Berlin Conference. The British got the area that the UAC operated in, included in their sphere of influence after the Berlin Conference.
When the Brits got the terms they wanted from other Europeans, they began to deal with the African chiefs. [Side Note: The same way they colonised South Africa]. Within two years from 1886, Goldie had signed treaties with tribal chiefs along the Benue and Niger Rivers whilst also penetrating inland. This move inland was against the spirit of verbal agreements that had been made to restrict the organisation’s activities to coastal regions. [Side Note: Britain never honours its agreements, ask ZANU PF in Zimbabwe and the ANC in South Africa]
George Dashwood Taubman Goldie. Photo Hubert von Herkomer
By 1886, the company name changed to The National Africa Company and was granted a royal charter (incorporated). The charter authorised the company to administer the Niger Delta and all lands around the banks of the Benue and Niger Rivers. Soon after, the company was again renamed. The new name was Royal Niger Company, which survive, till this day as Unilever.
King Koko Mingi VIII of Nigeria
To local chiefs, the Royal Niger Company negotiators had pledged free trade in the region. Behind the scenes, they entered private contracts on their terms. [Side Note: Typical of British Zionist Jews’ double-crossing agenda]. Because the (deceitful) private contracts were often written in English and signed by the local chiefs, the British government enforced them. So for example, Jaja of Opobo, when he tried to export palm oil on his own, he was forced into exile for “obstructing commerce”.
[Side Note: Is this not what the Oppenheimers are trying to do in South Africa through Cyril Ramaphosa and his CR17 ilk. Manufacturing charges to force Zuma into exile because he pushed for Radical Economic Transformation in South Africa]. As an aside, Jaja was “forgiven” in 1891 and allowed to return home, but he died on the way back, poisoned with a cup of tea. [Side Note: When the ANC defeated them in Angola with the help of the Cubans and the Russians, they faked ‘Peace and reconciliation’ and raised a white flag, when their real aim was to lower the momentum of the armed struggle, trick the ANC back into the country to assassinate former South African Communist Party leader Chris Hani and Pan Africanist Congress’ Sabelo Phama and poison others they feared like former President Jacob Zuma and former ANC’s Head of Information in Lusaka Victor Moche]
Seeing what happened to Jaja, some other native rulers began to look more closely at the deals they were getting from the Royal Nigeria Company. One of such kingdoms was Nembe, whose king, Koko Mingi VIII, ascended the throne in 1889 after being a Christian schoolteacher. Koko Mingi VIII, King Koko for short, like most rulers in the yard, was faced with the Royal Nigeria Company encroachment. He also resented the monopoly enjoyed by the Royal Nigeria Company and tried to seek out favourable trading terms, with particularly the Germans in Kamerun (Cameroon).
[Side Note: But in their African colonies they short-change monarchs and clip their powers. Did you know that the Buckingham Palace is like a foreign country inside Britain as it falls outside the laws of that country, so that the Queen can not be subject to British laws like her own citizens.
The Queen of England is the only monarch we know of in the world who enjoys this godly status of being immune from prosecution in a country she rules. The Buckingham Palace is like those US government offices in Washington DC known as the Capitol. They are registered as an independent country, just like the offices of foreign countries called embassies in your own country. Once you step inside the premises of a foreign embassy, no law enforcement agency can arrest you there because you have stepped outside your own country inside your own country!
Yet through their South African Roman Dutch law they arrested and imprisoned AbaThembu King Dalindyebo, who was used as a specimen to scare off other monarchs in South Africa; a reminder that unlike the Queen of England, they don’t enjoy the same immunity from prosecution in their own countries because they are black.
AbaThembu King Dalindyebo’s arrest was nothing else but a political strategy by the Democratic Alliance, which wanted their man Ramaphosa to win the ANC election in Nasrec. So King Dalindyebo had to insult Zuma shortly before he got jailed as a smear campaign to turn the Xhosa speaking people in the Eastern Cape against Dr Nkosazana-Dlamini Zuma in Nasrec. Initially Dalindyebo was indicted during former President Thabo Mbeki's term in 2005 of fraud, murder, attempted murder, kidnapping and arson but the case was dragged on and on until he was sentenced to 15 years for his crimes in 2009, during Zuma's term. We are fully aware instructions for him to become belligerent against Zuma and insult him in public before he was sentenced to 12 years in prison in 2015 came from the NDZ’s opponents as a political strategy, the King calling Zuma inkwenkwe (small boy) to create a false impression that he was being targeted under Zuma’s administration because he was Xhosa, a cheap tribalism card.
King Dalindyebo had committed his crimes several years before Zuma even became a President, but the timing of his sentencing was conveniently made to coincide with Zuma’s term of office for political expediency. Just to use his imprisonment to turn the Xhosa speaking people against the ANC’s policy of Radical Economic Transformation on tribal basis. We knew all along that Ramaphosa would pardon him after the King’s mission was accomplished. The belligerence of King Dalindyebo against Zuma was reminiscent of Malema’s similar politically motivated belligerence following his recruitment by the CIA in 2007 to kill the ANC Youth League and form fake freedom fighters called EFF with its membership.]
By 1894, the Royal Nigeria Company increasingly dictated whom the natives could trade with, and denied them direct access to their former markets [Side Note: This is already happening in South Africa, as you saw former President Zuma being crucified for looking East to BRICS for an alternative economy to White Monopoly Capital]. In late 1894, King Koko renounced Christianity and tried to form an alliance with Bonny and Okpoma against the Royal Nigeria Company to take back the trade. This is significant because while Okpoma joined up, Bonny refused. A harbinger of the successful “divide and rule” tactic.
On 29 January 1895, King Koko led an attack on the Royal Niger Company’s headquarters, which was in Akassa in today’s Bayelsa state. The pre-dawn raid had more than a thousand men involved. King Koko’s attack succeeded in capturing the base. Losing 40 of his men, King Koko captured 60 white men as hostages, as well as a lot of goods, ammunition and a Maxim gun. Koko then attempted to negotiate a release of the hostages in exchange for being allowed to choose his trading partners. The British refused to negotiate with Koko, and he had forty of the hostages killed. A British report [Side Note: Most probably lying] claimed that the Nembe people ate them. On 20 February 1895, Britain’s Royal Navy, under Admiral Bedford attacked Brass and burned it to the ground. Many Nembe people died and smallpox finished off a lot of others.
[Side Note: When scientists are poisoning people, they usually hide behind viruses, just to throw people off the trail of their evildoing to find a reason to make you blame yourself for your own victimisation. We don’t believe in the existence of viruses. For example, HIV was sold as a virus that allegedly mutated into AIDS before it killed millions of people, but no one actually died AIDS. All these people who reportedly died of AIDS actually died of some other disease that was said to have been ‘enabled’ by the HIVirus to kill them, most of often than not of tuberculosis.
So in essence AIDS never existed, but someone was able to sell it as a non curable virus and made billions in profits selling anti-retroviral drugs. So people who died from their body’s immune system failure to resist dis-eases that were known as curable before were branded victim of AIDS. But migraines, for example, (your persistent headache) is sometimes curable with aspirins, yet in certain cases it will resist aspirins, even treatment by a medical doctor and you may eventually die from it without any trace of HIVirus in your body system. How do you explain that? Do you get the picture?
What we know exists is dis-ease. Physicians call it ’virus’ infection, bacteria or something, we know it as demon attack on a human body. Viruses are their scientific theories, but we don’t subscribe to them.
Right now it is a change of season. We are moving from summer into autumn before we step into winter time. Thus our bodies are in a process of readjusting their metabolism for the cold winter season. Round about this time virtually all of us suffer some form of influenza due to body system metabolism. This has happened ever since you were born, so why should someone surprise you with a bout of influenza, which is normal round about this time? There is a political underlying agenda behind this and we have given our analysis in our previous post.
But we have not stopped investigating the existence of this dis-ease, and if we finally find it as something more than normal autumn influenza, you should know this Corona dis-ease is a result of food poisoning and certain elements of your government are part of the whole conspiracy.
The same cabal that controls the SABC, a media platform that foretold this dis-ease through its soapie Generations – The Legacy last year knows more than it is telling. So if the dis-ease really does exist, it is either a population control mechanism or a political scaremongering. They have every reason to scare or poison you. First, they claim to have invented artificial intelligence to replace you with in their workplaces, yet on the other hand they are refusing to give your land back.
So with the advent of robotics, you are no longer useful to their industries as slaves? So what do you think is their plan about you? So, if we finally discover that this dis-ease does exist, you will be the first to know it is poisoning. This is what any ordinary evil witch can do. Poisoning. And if we finally find it, believe it or not, you should know that your government is part of the whole conspiracy against you and this poison might be in the food that you buy from a supermarket as opposed to the allegations that it is contagious.
They can not carry out this bio-genocide without the help of unscrupulous elements in your government who are in bed with these Zionist Jews whom we all know are in the business of human depopulation. So your own President knows more about this poison than he is telling. Put your future in the hands of an apartheid spy, you’re like a brainless man asking for a remedy from the witch. And in case you are still not aware, the 4th and the final world war is going to be between the rich and the poor and the poor are going to win it because God Almighty is on their side. It is the end of the devils in human form as we know it and they are signing their own death warrants, just as God planned it from the beginning]
By April 1895, business had returned to “normal”. Normal being the conditions that the British wanted, and King Koko was on the run. Brass was fined £500 by the British, £62,494 (NGN29 million) in today’s money, and the looted weapons were returned as well as the surviving prisoners. After a British Parliamentary Commission sat, King Koko was offered terms of settlement by the British, which he rejected and disappeared. The British promptly declared him an outlaw and offered a reward of £200 (£26,000; NGN12 million today) for him. He committed suicide in exile in 1898.
About that time, another “recalcitrant King”, the Oba of Benin, was run out of town. [Side Note: Under these circumstances, expect a compliant commoner to be crowned as King]. The pacification of the Lower Niger was well and truly underway. The immediate effect of the Brass Oil War was that public opinion in Britain turned against the Royal Nigeria Company, so its charter was revoked in 1899. Following the revoking of its charter, the Royal Niger Company sold its holdings to the British government for £865,000 (£108 million today). That amount, £46,407,250 (NGN 50,386,455,032,400, at today’s exchange rate) was effectively the price Britain paid, to buy the territory which was to become known as Nigeria.
source: the guardian