Blood and Oil (2013) s01e02 Episode Script
Part Two
Look, this kind of thing doesn't happen on its own.
It's sabotage.
The boys done come.
MACHINE GUN FIRE Oil contractors are kidnapped in the Delta every week of every year.
Hello? The wife of one of our hostages has just arrived.
It's just such a shock.
Your husband is to be released tomorrow.
Oh, my God.
'That's wonderful.
' NO! No, but what are people saying? You must have some idea.
The situation as far as I know is that negotiations were successful.
I need to take your film for my investigation.
So why did Krielson hire a top PR consultant unless they knew this was going to happen? I would very much like to meet up with Mr Keme Tobodo.
Where is the person who will take us out of this politics of violence and corruption? I negotiated the release of all four men with the MEND leader called Ebi.
Claire.
I've got into something really bad, and it's something that I can't get out of.
He was being forced to do something against his will.
And I'm not going to leave this country until I know what it was.
You said I could trust you.
Yeah.
So you will help me.
This programme contains some strong language.
WHIRR OF HELICOPTER BLADES DRONE OF CHOPPER GETS CLOSER GUNSHOTS VOICES SHOUTING LOUD GUNFIRE GUNFIRE AND SHOUTING CONTINUE Hi.
What time is it? Uh, it's early.
This man is Krielson, this man is Krielson security, and this man is Krielson security.
And this man, this is the man he talks about in his messages, the man he met there.
Met where? In the bar he talks about.
OK.
So if we can find this man then I'll know what happened to Mark.
PHONE RINGS Let me do that for you.
Hello.
Yes.
And who is he? No, no, I'll come down.
There's a journalist down in the lobby and I need to get him off my back.
I'll be five minutes, OK? That's OK.
Just help yourself to whatever you need.
Claire, listen to me.
I understand why you feel you need to be here, I do.
But let me do that for you.
I'll do whatever I can, everything I can.
But you must go home.
You have to look after yourself.
And this isn't the place.
Hi.
Good morning.
Hi.
How are you? I'm OK.
Thank you for coming down to meet me.
Sure.
So, how can I help? A couple of questions.
No problem.
You may have heard some activity last night.
Yeah.
Human Rights Watch have criticised this wave of violence as reprisals for the execution of your employees.
What is your position on this? We support the government's efforts to restore order in the region.
So you approve of? We have confidence that the government will want to investigate any excesses that have been reported.
Did you know that Keme Tobodo was arrested in one of those raids? No, I didn't.
His party offices were ransacked, his female staff were beaten, and he is now in jail.
Well, as I've just said, we have confidence that the government will want to investigate any abuse of power.
So you have no opinion on Tobodo's incarceration? We do not and we should not have a policy with regard to Nigeria's internal affairs.
He was one of your negotiators trying to release one of your staff! Of course we will be concerned You cannot divorce yourself from the politics of the country you are profiting from.
Krielson's record here is good.
In fact, it's better than good.
Their support of the communities where they operate is outstanding.
Their environmental record is improving year on year.
That's not just here, it's everywhere.
And you know they operate in the toughest parts of the world, dangerous work in dangerous countries, and they still rightly take no short cuts in their responsibilities to their workforce.
It's a damn good company.
But what they are not is a government.
They are an oil-services company whose duty is to their workers and their shareholders.
Telling governments how to run their countries is not and should not be on their agenda.
It's the governments that dictate to them.
That's democracy.
You are defending a statement you know is a lie.
What will you say What is this? No, tell me now.
This man is a journalist I don't care who he is.
So, what is this? I don't understand.
The militants are claiming it was the government's Joint Task Force who killed your husband.
But we have no evidence of that.
Why would these people MEND kill him only to deny it? What would be the point of that? Something went wrong and we don't know what, and we are trying to find out.
Went wrong with what? The negotiations, it seems.
A man in here says that there was no problem with the negotiation.
That's right.
This is true? Yes.
So what are you saying? Claire, the politics here are such that you So my husband was released alive? By MEND, yes.
Mr Ijeoma is a supporter of MEND and a critic of the Government What I am reporting, Mrs Unwin, and I wrote that article, is what I am being told by people whom I trust for the truth.
That's your opinion, Mr Ijeoma, not the truth.
So what did happen to my husband? There are conflicting reports.
What happened is this.
The men who took your husband hostage were themselves attacked and killed, and your husband was then taken from them alive.
Why haven't you told me this? No, we don't know if that's true, Claire.
This is what happened.
We don't know it's what happened.
This is what happened, but we don't know why.
So can you find out? That is why I'm here, asking questions.
Why haven't you told me? You said you would help me.
Yes, and I am.
You said you would do everything you can.
Yes, and I am.
So work with him.
Can you help us? We should work together.
Share our information.
Yes.
Do that.
There is a man in this photograph.
This one, this man here.
I need to know who he is.
He got my husband into serious trouble with something and I don't know what it was.
Can I make a copy of this? Claire, it's not a good idea to give a photograph He says he'll help me.
It's OK, it won't be published.
Besides, I think we have agreed to share our information.
You know the pub where all the guys go to? Well, I met someone there a couple of weeks ago.
He works for this local businessman.
Well, I think businessman.
There's not a lot I should say about this that I can say.
Claire, I've got into something really bad.
I mean, really bad.
And it's something I can't get out of.
I'm in real trouble.
I mean, I'm really in trouble, and I I can't see my way out.
It's not just the other guys.
Fuck! If you know where this is, can you just give me the address and I can go there myself? Hey, Alice.
Mr Meribe.
How are you? Very good.
Why don't you join us for a drink? I would love to.
Yeah, so sit down.
No, no, no, I would love to, but I have to take Claire to the airport.
No, I'm not going.
Mr Meribe has shown me where this photograph was taken, so that's where I want to go.
You can't miss your flight for that, Claire.
I've already said I'm not going.
Alice, I have tried to tell her.
I can't go home without my husband anyway.
I mean, to think I would do that, that I was even thinking I would do that.
You've heard what they've said, Claire, it could be weeks before I'm not going home without him.
I'm going here.
I have told her, Alice, it's a place where all the boys go to drink.
Pie and chips, mushy peas, all that stuff, you know.
But she is determined to go there.
Yes, I am.
Look, I can go to that bar with your photograph and This is what Noel and I agreed, Claire.
No, you don't understand.
Mark left me that message because he wants me to find out what was happening to him.
So why would you want me to abandon him now? I don't want you to abandon him So that's where I want you to take me.
I tried to persuade her, Alice.
"Go to the airport and go home," I tell her.
But she won't be turned.
Send my regards to your father, eh? Yeah, I will do.
Thank you.
Good evening, ladies.
Do you want to leave? No, I want to speak to the manager.
Excuse me.
Can I speak to the manager, please? He is not here.
I am sorry.
Can I help? Malcolm Hayes.
I'm looking for someone, I just thought the manager might be able to help.
I'm sure I'll be able to help you.
I've been sitting here on and off for 32 years.
I'm looking for this man.
That's Gerry Todd, isn't it? And you are? Claire.
Claire, lovely.
And what would you like to drink, Claire? Water.
Just water, please.
Water? What about your charming friend? We haven't met.
Malcolm Hayes.
Alice Omuka.
I'll have a water as well.
Thank you.
Johan, two of your finest waters, please.
Yes, sir.
So do you know him? You won't find someone I don't know.
Do you know where he is? Yeah.
He's back in South Africa.
Since when? Since these fellas copped it.
So what do you know about him? Nothing.
HE LAUGHS No, please, don't misunderstand me.
You see, there's this world in here and there's that world over the wall.
Now, we don't want to know what we do over the wall.
All I can tell you is he likes a beer and Well, you can see.
Claire.
Please! Do you know this woman? Yeah, looks like Angel.
Angel? And is she here now? She left a while ago too.
With Todd? No, with this guy.
What do you mean, she left with him? Let me explain something to you.
I've been on the rigs here for 32 years.
There is nothing I have not seen.
This is a tough place.
Oil towns are tough places, and this is one of the toughest.
You work hard, you drink hard, the months go by, you get lonely.
You pay for one girl, and once you start, you can't stop.
It happens to all of us.
I have this girl here.
Look at her, beautiful, pay her good money, we have an arrangement, we're happy.
But some of the guys, they get used to the servants, the parties by the pool, the drinking and the girls.
So when leave comes around and it's time to go home and see the loved one, the little house, the trips to the supermarket, they get frightened.
They want to keep with the girl out here.
But what they don't realise is that the girl out here wants to be like the wife back home.
Are you getting me? Claire, let's go So, what you're saying is, the reason why she left was to go with him? That's exactly what I'm saying to you.
I'm telling you, you sit here for 32 years, there is nothing you do not know.
I could run the world with what I've learnt sitting here.
Oh, she's gone.
She won't forget the fat man at the bar, though, eh? Thank you.
My pleasure, darling.
I'm looking for this woman.
Her name is Angel.
Do you know this woman? Her name is Angel.
Do you know this woman? Do you know this woman? GUNFIRE You stay here until I tell you to leave.
Who are you? I work for Ed Daly.
I am looking after you.
What's happening? Some gang trouble.
They have gone.
You are safe to go now.
Come, go, go.
But you wait here.
I have to make sure it is safe before I can take you back to the hotel.
We're not going to learn anything else here, Claire.
I mean, this man Todd has left town, and this girl Angel I just think you should try and forget about her.
I have to find her.
No, you don't have to try and find her, Claire.
She's just a girl, like all these other girls.
She's not like all these other girls.
She didn't just try to screw my husband, she tried to seduce him, she tried to take him away from me.
She's the reason he got killed.
She tried to seduce him.
He doesn't just go with other women like these slobs here.
What are you saying, that he's like them? No, I didn't say that, Claire.
I showed you the messages he sent me.
You saw his messages.
Is that a man who goes with other women like this man in here or that slobdown there? He wasn't talking about my husband, he was talking about himself! Yeah, he was.
My husband was distressed because of something, but not because of a whore.
Yeah I know, Claire.
My husband came out here because we had a plan.
When he came out of the army, we sat down together and we worked it out, how much money we'd need to put down a deposit on a house.
We worked it out, three years here and we'd have our money.
We'd get our home.
And then we'd have children.
He came here for me.
He didn't come here to lie in a bed like this! That man down there is a slob.
He is a slob and he deserves to be shot! It's men like him that got Mark killed.
And he is lying about my husband! He never went with any of these whores! Why should I care if it isn't safe? It's not Todd I need to find, it's the girl, Angel.
Excuse me.
Hi.
I'm looking for this woman.
Her name is Angel.
I haven't seen this before.
No, sorry.
Do you know this woman? Her name is Angel.
No, sorry.
Do you know where I can find this woman? Her name is Angel.
Sorry, I don't know.
I haven't seen her.
Sorry.
I haven't seen her.
No, I can't say that I have.
Definitely not.
No.
Sorry.
Have you seen this woman? Her name is Angel.
No, I don't know her.
Do you know this woman? Yes, I know her.
You do? She visited here, didn't she? I mean here, to see my husband? I'm sorry, what is your name? Joseph, ma.
Joseph, you can tell me the truth.
Yes, ma.
She come here.
How often? Many times.
And they were They were together, were they? I mean I mean, you know what I mean.
Yes, ma.
She come here visit your guy.
Do you know how I can find her? GUITAR PLAYS Hallelujah! Hallelujah! The Bible says in the book of Joshua 1:3, "Anywhere the sole of your feet shall trample upon, "the Lord has given you to possess.
"Because you are here in the land of the Lord in Port Harcourt.
" I'm going to tell you that the Niger Delta is your land and nobody can take your place.
Hallelujah! If you believe it shout, Hallelujah! If you are new to worshipping with God for the first time today, I want you to signify by raising your hands.
Wherever you are.
I am watching.
Somebody's here.
Hallelujah.
Praise the Lord.
Hallelujah.
I can see that wonderful hand.
I want you to stand on your feet.
Yes, yes, I can see that person.
Clap your hands to Jesus.
I welcome you to this house of the Lord Jesus our saviour.
Who died for our sins.
Wonderful.
Come and hear the poem.
You stole my husband from me.
You thief.
You whore.
You bitch.
You have left me with nothing.
You man-stealer.
You marriage-wrecker.
You whore.
You bitch.
You killer! .
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who does not change like a shifting shadow.
Hallelujah.
The Lord is speaking to somebody here today.
He's telling you to have faith.
A man can promise you heaven and earth.
But in the time to bring it to pass he will fail Your man -- your man said he loved me.
He paid me money to stop working because he said he loved me.
He promised me marriage.
He promised me a house in Cape Town.
He promised me children.
He said he had no wife but he took his ring off to meet me.
And then he took the dream away from me.
He just threw me away when he found another girl.
Oh, Jesus, Jesus, please, no! All I am doing is telling the truth! All I am doing is telling the truth.
Claire.
Mrs Unwin.
Will you come with me, please? It's all right.
You shouldn't be here.
We're going to take you home.
Step into the vehicle, please.
Her name is Angel Opara.
She's a bar girl and we are very keen to protect you from her.
Now, there's been a lot of nonsense talked about the circumstances of your husband's death but the situation according to Krielson is this.
Todd, the man you quite rightly identified as a problem to your husband, was running a prostitution racket here in Port Harcourt.
And his intention was to extend his operation and use your husband to help him ship the girls to London.
Krielson don't know what the planned precise set-up was, but this was a situation that so terrified your husband that he was unable to talk to you about it.
Your husband's kidnap, his death and the death of his colleagues was in no way related to Todd.
Am I being clear to you? '.
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in one of the most unstable areas in the world.
'These shocking images were posted anonymously to the offices of a German TV station yesterday.
'This follows criticism by the Norwegian ambassador at the 'United Nations of the Nigerian government's heavy-handed crackdown on opposition groups 'in their hunt for those responsible for the oil contractors' deaths.
'The particular horror of these images 'is certain to cause outrage throughout' Where the hell did they get that film from, Ed? I handed it over to Lieutenant Commander Tayo! Yes, I know you did.
But I'm afraid you're going to have to make this right for us and with no criticism of him.
So, who takes the blame? Me? Yes.
Our only option is to present this as your error.
A slip in security in allowing the tape to be stolen from your office.
We agreed that this was the best way forward.
Who did? With who? With Tayo.
But we all understand perfectly well that someone in the police department sold it for a little extra cash.
No-one is going to believe that it was stolen from my office, Ed.
They don't have to believe it but you do have to say it.
What if this guy killed your workers? Which guy? Tayo! You know, I am getting a very nasty feeling that I'm defending something that cannot be defended.
Alice, all I am asking you to do is to cover-up for a military officer who is on our side and who we don't want to see lose his job.
OK.
You give me the truth on that.
OK.
How about me and you getting some air? Believe it or not, you can get the best coffee in Nigeria on this boat.
So you're telling me that this is true? What do you know about that boat? What do you mean? Like, have you any idea who owns it? No.
The Russian mafia.
It's full of oil.
And it's all stolen from our pipelines.
When politicians here talk about oil bunkering, they mean the guy with his jerry can and his plastic bottle stealing oil from the pipes and selling it on the streets for 50 cents, but this is the real oil bunkering.
Tankers full of it.
I'll tell you how it works.
Nigerian Mr A goes into business with Russian mafia Mr B.
Together they go into business with a militia gang.
This gang then siphons off the oil into barges owned by Nigerian Mr A.
Mr A's barges take the oil to this tanker and the tanker sets sail for Rotterdam.
The world buys the oil.
Mr A and Mr B become very rich.
So who is Mr A? Everyone in politics and business here in this country is Mr A.
It's the same people trading the oil, whether through legitimate contracts with the oil companies or stealing it through the pipelines.
The same businessmen, the same politicians.
This is oil bunkering.
The whole of Nigerian business is oil bunkering.
Someone is stealing it for somebody.
And what should be one of the world's richest places is one of the poorest.
80 million Nigerians live in abject poverty.
And the bare-foot guy selling his bunkered oil on the street corner is just trying to survive.
That is all you need to know about how politics is run in this country.
Except perhaps one specific detail you should know.
The Mr A in this particular case is your father.
My father? When he was in government here, he made his money through the oil commissions.
Now he's out of government, he makes it like this.
But there's no shame in it, Alice.
Legitimate and illegitimate have no meaning because everything is corrupt and therefore nothing is corrupt.
Your father, the politician, the militia thugs, us -- we're all on the same wheel of fortune.
And this article? I don't know.
I haven't seen it.
That is how we all operate here.
We turn a blind eye, Alice.
Me.
Your father.
You.
My father is a decent and a good man.
What he's achieved This is what I'm trying to tell you.
He's done well for himself.
And done well for you.
You have no right -- you have no right, to talk about my father like that in front of me.
He was brought up on that stinking waterfront over there and you have no right.
You have no fucking right! 'My dad is the dearest man.
'And there his is on the roadside and he's selling dried fish with the women.
'That is my father at 11 years old.
'I am the luckiest woman in the world to be the daughter of that 11-year-old boy.
'I owe my wonderful father everything.
' I've come to see Keme Tobodo.
Well, then, show me the naira.
She wants to see Keme.
What are you doing here? I was just passing, so I though I'd I've brought you some things.
I didn't bring any medicines, but I can if you No, I don't need any, but thank you.
And thank you for this.
You don't mind if I eat it right away, do you? Oh, no, no.
Go ahead.
Thank you.
They will take it off me if I don't eat it.
Come, sit.
Do you want? No, no.
You carry on.
So, what happens now? Have you been charged with anything? I don't know.
I expect they will just keep me here.
For how long? A week, a month, a year.
I've no idea.
Will you let me try and get you out of here? Wouldn't that be crossing the line for you? I actually thought it might compromise you.
You know, accepting assistance from a representative of the oil industry.
I have no problem with the oil industry in the Delta, only with the way it operates.
But are you here as their representative or No.
Just for myself, my own reasons.
So, will you let me try and get you out of here? Have you got a plan? Yeah.
And it's very simple.
A phone call to the man who put you in here.
Tayo? Yeah.
He could cause you a lot of trouble.
Shall we see? Why are you doing this? Well, because Because when I came to see you that afternoon in the village, I liked what you were saying.
So I'll call him.
I also listened when you told me aboutyour father.
Lieutenant Commander Tayo? This is Alice Omuka.
Lieutenant Commander, as you are telling me to take the blame for the release of that film, I am telling you to give the order for the release of Mr Tobodo.
I'm holding a press conference at two o'clock this afternoon.
If Mr Tobodo calls me before then to say that he's been freed, I'll take responsibility for the leaked film.
If you do not release him, I'll tell the press that it was leaked by you.
No.
No, I'm not going to debate this.
That's the deal.
Two o'clock.
Good.
That's done.
MOBILE PHONE RINGS Hello? 'Miss Omuka?' Yeah.
'It's Noel Ijeoma.
'I need to see you.
Can you bring Mrs Unwin?' HORN BLARES Was your husband once a soldier? He was in the Royal Signals.
The other two men who died with him were also once upon a time soldiers.
This friend of his, Todd, in your photograph, for the last 20 years, this man has been working as a mercenary in Africa's wars.
Sierra Leone, Burundi, Congo, Angola, Liberia Everywhere there was a war, he was there, recruiting and training soldiers.
He was here in Port Harcourt because he was hired by a local businessman to recruit soldiers now working for the oil companies.
And he recruited your husband.
For what? I don't know.
For who? A man called Charles Meribe.
A former governor of the state.
The man who owns the compound where Mark lived.
Unfortunately he has just left the country.
All three men killed were being hired illegally and secretly by Charles Meribe.
So why am I being told about a plan to send bar girls to London for prostitution? These people are lying to you.
To make you go home.
Meribe was recruiting soldiers.
Forget about bar girls, this was a military operation.
Maybe you know something? This is the first time that I've heard anything about hiring soldiers.
This is the first time! MOBILE PHONE RINGS Hello? 'Like magic!' Where are you? 'Outside the prison.
' That's fantastic.
Can we meet? 'I will send one of my guys to pick you up.
' OK.
Keme Tobodo has been released.
That was him? Yeah.
I made a deal with Tayo.
That's good.
Yes, that's very good! I said I wanted to meet him because he may have some information from the creeks for you, Claire.
He's sending someone to the hotel to pick me up.
No, I want to go to the creeks myself.
No, no.
We will do this for you.
I can use a contact of mine in the joint task force to find out exactly what Mr Meribe was up to.
Then we will know for certain who killed your husband.
And why.
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
First of all, a statement on the images that found their way to the network newsdesk.
I greatly regret that these distressing images have been leaked to the media and I offer my most profound apologies to the families of the deceased.
This film was stolen from my office here in Port Harcourt and I take full responsibility for not securing it sufficiently.
We have set up an internal investigation in conjunction with Lieutenant Commander Tunde Tayo of the Joint Task Force, and I thank him for his cooperation in this matter.
Alice Omuka? Yes.
My name is Antony Tarila.
I have come to take you to see Keme.
Oh, right.
Thank you.
MOBILE PHONE RINGS Hello? 'It's Keme, where are you? My man is waiting in the lobby for you.
' No, it's OK.
I'm already with him.
'He's in the hotel reception right now.
' What's his name? 'You met.
Andrew.
He brought you to me last time.
'Alice, the man you are with must work for Tunde Tayo.
'Alice Alice' Get out the way, man! Are you OK? Sorry.
Bring her to my shop.
Where is my bag? Do I have a bag? A bag.
Yeah, you have a bag.
Look.
There's a phone in there.
Can you see a phone? Oh, thank you.
Thank you very much.
Thank you all very much.
I appreciate it.
Thank you.
Oh, thank you.
I am so sorry.
Is your cart all right? So, your trouble has come early with Mr Tunde Tayo.
That was quick off the mark.
You must consider yourself lucky.
How are you? I'm OK.
They've put me back together again.
Thank you, my sisters.
You're welcome, my brother.
We'll get you back to the hotel.
Excuse me, madam.
You must look at these.
The journalist asked too many questions.
Don't make the same mistake.
That is the message.
You won't get away with this! You go tell them that! Noel was killed to stop him making this journey.
Are you sure you want to go ahead? Yes, I am.
Even if we don't find out anything? I need to see where he spent the last few days of his life.
And the men he spent them with.
I understand that.
He's been accused of taking whores and of running a prostitution racket and of being a mercenary.
He just came out here to earn enough money to buy us a home together, that's all.
And I want to hear that for myself.
That this is all he was, just a good man and a loving husband who came out here for me.
I deserve to hear that.
I need to know what really happened to him.
OK.
It's all set up.
We can go.
3,000 naira.
I want too much now.
2,000.
2,000 naira.
That too small, put more money I say 2,000.
Put more money.
Look at my children.
2,500.
Cover her eye.
Put these on.
HE WHISTLES DISTANT WHISTLE REPLIES THEY SPEAK IN LOCAL DIALEC Come on.
CONVERSATION CONTINUES Make a check them.
He's just going to search you.
What are you, British? Yes.
She's the widow of one of the executed men, Mark Unwin.
She's Who are you? I'm Alice.
I'm a friend of Mrs Unwin's.
They wanted to see you because they wanted to know what happened.
I'm very angry with you! Very angry! The British, you are wicked, wicked people for conniving with our governments, reneging on promises at independence and waging a 50-year-war against us with the stealing of our oil.
But now we are fighting you back.
Yes.
We are fighting you back! One, we will localise control of the delta oil.
Two, we will have reparation from the national government for the polluting of our creeks.
And three, there will be a total demilitarisation of our land.
And there will be no peace for you until this happens.
Not at all! This time it is us who are waging the war against you.
She has come because she wanted to know what happened to her husband.
What is the talk? You say I killed him? No.
No, no, no.
I killed your husband? No, no, I No, no, no.
She's not saying that.
Ebi, she's not saying that.
No, you are wicked people to say I killed your husband! That makes me very angry.
We trade the white man, we don't kill them! What do we want to kill him for when we agreed to give him back? We want the white man to go home.
We don't want to kill him.
I will tell you what happened.
Your husband, we looked after him.
We fed him.
We gave him drink, gave him medicine.
He thanked me for looking after him.
Listen to me.
Your husband, Mark, he shook my hand.
The last time I saw him, he shook my hand.
He said to me, "Thank you, you are a kind man.
" The last thing he said to me, "You are a kind man.
" We have a man here who will tell you what happened.
Come.
You see, you -- you are the bad people.
This man will tell you what happened.
This is my husband's bodyguard.
The other man in my photograph.
Six of our boys took your boys, including this man, to where we had agreed to hand them over.
The next thing we hear on the news channels, the three white men have been killed.
Come here.
Tell them what happened.
Come! Our boat came under attack.
I didn't know who it was.
I just dived into the water.
I was hiding in the mangrove and I saw that two of the white men had been killed in the attack.
All our boys taking them to freedom also killed.
All our boys! The men attacking us were the soldiers of the Joint Task Force.
You see? The government killing them! These government soldiers, they then began to cross the river to rescue your husband.
He was so happy to be taken home by these people, but instead of saving them and taking them home, this soldier went up to him, took a gun, put it up to him and shot him in the head.
You see? Tunde Tayo.
Tunde Tayo.
That's the man who killed your husband.
Why did they kill them? To blame us.
So they can get the support of the British and American governments to come here with their helicopter gunships and jet planes and every weapon on God's earth.
I came here and I told my friends here what had happened.
And today we have recovered the bodies of our six boys.
The same man who killed your husband.
The same man! Tunde Tayo.
This is the man who killed your husband.
Tunde Tayo.
The Joint Task Force.
I want to go now.
Can we go? OK.
Let's go, let's go.
Go! Go back and tell the world what really happened.
That was not why Tunde Tayo killed him.
Not at all.
Not at all.
Why did they do it, Lucky? Madam, please Come on.
Go! Go! My husband was in trouble, wasn't he? Why was he in trouble? You know why, don't you? Keep moving.
Move! Tell me.
Please.
Mark didn't tell me anything, nothing about it until after we were kidnapped.
I know my husband was recruited by a man named Meribe and I know this man was wanting soldiers.
But what for? Why was he recruiting soldiers? Madam, please Tell me please! The plan was for your husband and the other men to blow up their own company's oil rig.
What? God forgive me.
I would have stopped him if he would have told me.
Move! Move! But why? This was Mr Meribe's plan.
I don't know why.
Mark didn't even know why himself.
For him, it was just about the money.
All about the money.
Come on! I would have stopped him if he would have told me.
He was like a different person.
He got greedy.
Greedy for everything.
Did he love Angel? God forgive him for taking her into his arms.
Miss Omuka? Yeah.
Can I ask you something? Can you ask someone to make sure I am safe when we return to Port Harcourt so I can be with my wife and my children? Yeah.
I'll do that.
The government want to get rid of me because of everything I know.
I want to be in my church again, with my wife and my children.
I'll do whatever I can to make it safe for you.
Thank you, madam.
Cover your eyes.
You go home and you tell the truth about what is happening in my land.
GUNFIRE Oh, my God.
Lucky.
Mrs Unwin.
Lieutenant Commander Tunde Tayo.
Please, let me help you.
It's Tunde here.
Tell the Minister that the fourth hostage has been shot in a fire fight with the militants.
My guys will take me back from here.
There was nothing I will go and talk to his family.
These men are all here because they want to take over our leases on the oil blocks.
Some of them would pay millions to make that happen.
One successful attack on an oil rig could push our companies out forever.
Mr Meribe, the men financing him and the men working for him, including Mark, they were creating that opportunity.
Our countries need this oil so they had to be stopped.
Miss Omuka, your car has arrived.
Thank you.
How long have you known about Meribe? A while.
A girl called Angel told us.
Mr Unwin had promised her a house with a swimming pool and then got bored with her.
He told her.
She told us.
But it was no great conspiracy, Alice.
No great cover-up, just another businessman and four guys trying to get closer to the money, just another little story in this endless story of greed.
And, you know, it's a better world for everyone else to not know what's happening here.
Whatever you know, just let it stay with us.
My husband Mark will always be remembered by me and by everyone who knew him as a good and kind man who was killed a very long way from home, serving the needs of his country.
He died a hero.
And I am very proud of him.
Alice! Oh, Alice! Welcome home.
Welcome home, my dear.
My friend Charles Meribe was just telling me he had the pleasure of meeting you in Port Harcourt.
Oh, yes.
And I still cannot buy you that drink.
You're welcome, Alice.
Your father has been very kindly looking after me during my visit here.
Isn't she beautiful? Oh, yes, she is.
My dear, dear daughter, welcome home.
It's good to see you.
We have all the riches of the world under our feet, but what do you have? No medical centre, no sanitation, not even running water.
This is not how to create a nation.
A nation exists when all the people share the profits of the land together, not just the Ijaw or the Igbo or Yoruba, but the Ogoni, the Isopko and the Urhobo.
A nation exists when all the people come together.
And you create this nation only when you carry respect for others.
When there is respect for others, there is no corruption.
And you give respect -- you don't take it, you give it.
You give respect.
And this is how we are going to move forward together.
Then we can rise up and demand our schools, our medical centres, our electricity, our running water, our libraries and our share of the rewards of the work.
This is what society should be and this is what we are going to rise up and create together.
Ama! Ama! Thank you.
Please join us.
Thank you.
Ah, thank you.
Thank you.
Please join us.
Please join us.
Thank you.
Thank you.
It's sabotage.
The boys done come.
MACHINE GUN FIRE Oil contractors are kidnapped in the Delta every week of every year.
Hello? The wife of one of our hostages has just arrived.
It's just such a shock.
Your husband is to be released tomorrow.
Oh, my God.
'That's wonderful.
' NO! No, but what are people saying? You must have some idea.
The situation as far as I know is that negotiations were successful.
I need to take your film for my investigation.
So why did Krielson hire a top PR consultant unless they knew this was going to happen? I would very much like to meet up with Mr Keme Tobodo.
Where is the person who will take us out of this politics of violence and corruption? I negotiated the release of all four men with the MEND leader called Ebi.
Claire.
I've got into something really bad, and it's something that I can't get out of.
He was being forced to do something against his will.
And I'm not going to leave this country until I know what it was.
You said I could trust you.
Yeah.
So you will help me.
This programme contains some strong language.
WHIRR OF HELICOPTER BLADES DRONE OF CHOPPER GETS CLOSER GUNSHOTS VOICES SHOUTING LOUD GUNFIRE GUNFIRE AND SHOUTING CONTINUE Hi.
What time is it? Uh, it's early.
This man is Krielson, this man is Krielson security, and this man is Krielson security.
And this man, this is the man he talks about in his messages, the man he met there.
Met where? In the bar he talks about.
OK.
So if we can find this man then I'll know what happened to Mark.
PHONE RINGS Let me do that for you.
Hello.
Yes.
And who is he? No, no, I'll come down.
There's a journalist down in the lobby and I need to get him off my back.
I'll be five minutes, OK? That's OK.
Just help yourself to whatever you need.
Claire, listen to me.
I understand why you feel you need to be here, I do.
But let me do that for you.
I'll do whatever I can, everything I can.
But you must go home.
You have to look after yourself.
And this isn't the place.
Hi.
Good morning.
Hi.
How are you? I'm OK.
Thank you for coming down to meet me.
Sure.
So, how can I help? A couple of questions.
No problem.
You may have heard some activity last night.
Yeah.
Human Rights Watch have criticised this wave of violence as reprisals for the execution of your employees.
What is your position on this? We support the government's efforts to restore order in the region.
So you approve of? We have confidence that the government will want to investigate any excesses that have been reported.
Did you know that Keme Tobodo was arrested in one of those raids? No, I didn't.
His party offices were ransacked, his female staff were beaten, and he is now in jail.
Well, as I've just said, we have confidence that the government will want to investigate any abuse of power.
So you have no opinion on Tobodo's incarceration? We do not and we should not have a policy with regard to Nigeria's internal affairs.
He was one of your negotiators trying to release one of your staff! Of course we will be concerned You cannot divorce yourself from the politics of the country you are profiting from.
Krielson's record here is good.
In fact, it's better than good.
Their support of the communities where they operate is outstanding.
Their environmental record is improving year on year.
That's not just here, it's everywhere.
And you know they operate in the toughest parts of the world, dangerous work in dangerous countries, and they still rightly take no short cuts in their responsibilities to their workforce.
It's a damn good company.
But what they are not is a government.
They are an oil-services company whose duty is to their workers and their shareholders.
Telling governments how to run their countries is not and should not be on their agenda.
It's the governments that dictate to them.
That's democracy.
You are defending a statement you know is a lie.
What will you say What is this? No, tell me now.
This man is a journalist I don't care who he is.
So, what is this? I don't understand.
The militants are claiming it was the government's Joint Task Force who killed your husband.
But we have no evidence of that.
Why would these people MEND kill him only to deny it? What would be the point of that? Something went wrong and we don't know what, and we are trying to find out.
Went wrong with what? The negotiations, it seems.
A man in here says that there was no problem with the negotiation.
That's right.
This is true? Yes.
So what are you saying? Claire, the politics here are such that you So my husband was released alive? By MEND, yes.
Mr Ijeoma is a supporter of MEND and a critic of the Government What I am reporting, Mrs Unwin, and I wrote that article, is what I am being told by people whom I trust for the truth.
That's your opinion, Mr Ijeoma, not the truth.
So what did happen to my husband? There are conflicting reports.
What happened is this.
The men who took your husband hostage were themselves attacked and killed, and your husband was then taken from them alive.
Why haven't you told me this? No, we don't know if that's true, Claire.
This is what happened.
We don't know it's what happened.
This is what happened, but we don't know why.
So can you find out? That is why I'm here, asking questions.
Why haven't you told me? You said you would help me.
Yes, and I am.
You said you would do everything you can.
Yes, and I am.
So work with him.
Can you help us? We should work together.
Share our information.
Yes.
Do that.
There is a man in this photograph.
This one, this man here.
I need to know who he is.
He got my husband into serious trouble with something and I don't know what it was.
Can I make a copy of this? Claire, it's not a good idea to give a photograph He says he'll help me.
It's OK, it won't be published.
Besides, I think we have agreed to share our information.
You know the pub where all the guys go to? Well, I met someone there a couple of weeks ago.
He works for this local businessman.
Well, I think businessman.
There's not a lot I should say about this that I can say.
Claire, I've got into something really bad.
I mean, really bad.
And it's something I can't get out of.
I'm in real trouble.
I mean, I'm really in trouble, and I I can't see my way out.
It's not just the other guys.
Fuck! If you know where this is, can you just give me the address and I can go there myself? Hey, Alice.
Mr Meribe.
How are you? Very good.
Why don't you join us for a drink? I would love to.
Yeah, so sit down.
No, no, no, I would love to, but I have to take Claire to the airport.
No, I'm not going.
Mr Meribe has shown me where this photograph was taken, so that's where I want to go.
You can't miss your flight for that, Claire.
I've already said I'm not going.
Alice, I have tried to tell her.
I can't go home without my husband anyway.
I mean, to think I would do that, that I was even thinking I would do that.
You've heard what they've said, Claire, it could be weeks before I'm not going home without him.
I'm going here.
I have told her, Alice, it's a place where all the boys go to drink.
Pie and chips, mushy peas, all that stuff, you know.
But she is determined to go there.
Yes, I am.
Look, I can go to that bar with your photograph and This is what Noel and I agreed, Claire.
No, you don't understand.
Mark left me that message because he wants me to find out what was happening to him.
So why would you want me to abandon him now? I don't want you to abandon him So that's where I want you to take me.
I tried to persuade her, Alice.
"Go to the airport and go home," I tell her.
But she won't be turned.
Send my regards to your father, eh? Yeah, I will do.
Thank you.
Good evening, ladies.
Do you want to leave? No, I want to speak to the manager.
Excuse me.
Can I speak to the manager, please? He is not here.
I am sorry.
Can I help? Malcolm Hayes.
I'm looking for someone, I just thought the manager might be able to help.
I'm sure I'll be able to help you.
I've been sitting here on and off for 32 years.
I'm looking for this man.
That's Gerry Todd, isn't it? And you are? Claire.
Claire, lovely.
And what would you like to drink, Claire? Water.
Just water, please.
Water? What about your charming friend? We haven't met.
Malcolm Hayes.
Alice Omuka.
I'll have a water as well.
Thank you.
Johan, two of your finest waters, please.
Yes, sir.
So do you know him? You won't find someone I don't know.
Do you know where he is? Yeah.
He's back in South Africa.
Since when? Since these fellas copped it.
So what do you know about him? Nothing.
HE LAUGHS No, please, don't misunderstand me.
You see, there's this world in here and there's that world over the wall.
Now, we don't want to know what we do over the wall.
All I can tell you is he likes a beer and Well, you can see.
Claire.
Please! Do you know this woman? Yeah, looks like Angel.
Angel? And is she here now? She left a while ago too.
With Todd? No, with this guy.
What do you mean, she left with him? Let me explain something to you.
I've been on the rigs here for 32 years.
There is nothing I have not seen.
This is a tough place.
Oil towns are tough places, and this is one of the toughest.
You work hard, you drink hard, the months go by, you get lonely.
You pay for one girl, and once you start, you can't stop.
It happens to all of us.
I have this girl here.
Look at her, beautiful, pay her good money, we have an arrangement, we're happy.
But some of the guys, they get used to the servants, the parties by the pool, the drinking and the girls.
So when leave comes around and it's time to go home and see the loved one, the little house, the trips to the supermarket, they get frightened.
They want to keep with the girl out here.
But what they don't realise is that the girl out here wants to be like the wife back home.
Are you getting me? Claire, let's go So, what you're saying is, the reason why she left was to go with him? That's exactly what I'm saying to you.
I'm telling you, you sit here for 32 years, there is nothing you do not know.
I could run the world with what I've learnt sitting here.
Oh, she's gone.
She won't forget the fat man at the bar, though, eh? Thank you.
My pleasure, darling.
I'm looking for this woman.
Her name is Angel.
Do you know this woman? Her name is Angel.
Do you know this woman? Do you know this woman? GUNFIRE You stay here until I tell you to leave.
Who are you? I work for Ed Daly.
I am looking after you.
What's happening? Some gang trouble.
They have gone.
You are safe to go now.
Come, go, go.
But you wait here.
I have to make sure it is safe before I can take you back to the hotel.
We're not going to learn anything else here, Claire.
I mean, this man Todd has left town, and this girl Angel I just think you should try and forget about her.
I have to find her.
No, you don't have to try and find her, Claire.
She's just a girl, like all these other girls.
She's not like all these other girls.
She didn't just try to screw my husband, she tried to seduce him, she tried to take him away from me.
She's the reason he got killed.
She tried to seduce him.
He doesn't just go with other women like these slobs here.
What are you saying, that he's like them? No, I didn't say that, Claire.
I showed you the messages he sent me.
You saw his messages.
Is that a man who goes with other women like this man in here or that slobdown there? He wasn't talking about my husband, he was talking about himself! Yeah, he was.
My husband was distressed because of something, but not because of a whore.
Yeah I know, Claire.
My husband came out here because we had a plan.
When he came out of the army, we sat down together and we worked it out, how much money we'd need to put down a deposit on a house.
We worked it out, three years here and we'd have our money.
We'd get our home.
And then we'd have children.
He came here for me.
He didn't come here to lie in a bed like this! That man down there is a slob.
He is a slob and he deserves to be shot! It's men like him that got Mark killed.
And he is lying about my husband! He never went with any of these whores! Why should I care if it isn't safe? It's not Todd I need to find, it's the girl, Angel.
Excuse me.
Hi.
I'm looking for this woman.
Her name is Angel.
I haven't seen this before.
No, sorry.
Do you know this woman? Her name is Angel.
No, sorry.
Do you know where I can find this woman? Her name is Angel.
Sorry, I don't know.
I haven't seen her.
Sorry.
I haven't seen her.
No, I can't say that I have.
Definitely not.
No.
Sorry.
Have you seen this woman? Her name is Angel.
No, I don't know her.
Do you know this woman? Yes, I know her.
You do? She visited here, didn't she? I mean here, to see my husband? I'm sorry, what is your name? Joseph, ma.
Joseph, you can tell me the truth.
Yes, ma.
She come here.
How often? Many times.
And they were They were together, were they? I mean I mean, you know what I mean.
Yes, ma.
She come here visit your guy.
Do you know how I can find her? GUITAR PLAYS Hallelujah! Hallelujah! The Bible says in the book of Joshua 1:3, "Anywhere the sole of your feet shall trample upon, "the Lord has given you to possess.
"Because you are here in the land of the Lord in Port Harcourt.
" I'm going to tell you that the Niger Delta is your land and nobody can take your place.
Hallelujah! If you believe it shout, Hallelujah! If you are new to worshipping with God for the first time today, I want you to signify by raising your hands.
Wherever you are.
I am watching.
Somebody's here.
Hallelujah.
Praise the Lord.
Hallelujah.
I can see that wonderful hand.
I want you to stand on your feet.
Yes, yes, I can see that person.
Clap your hands to Jesus.
I welcome you to this house of the Lord Jesus our saviour.
Who died for our sins.
Wonderful.
Come and hear the poem.
You stole my husband from me.
You thief.
You whore.
You bitch.
You have left me with nothing.
You man-stealer.
You marriage-wrecker.
You whore.
You bitch.
You killer! .
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who does not change like a shifting shadow.
Hallelujah.
The Lord is speaking to somebody here today.
He's telling you to have faith.
A man can promise you heaven and earth.
But in the time to bring it to pass he will fail Your man -- your man said he loved me.
He paid me money to stop working because he said he loved me.
He promised me marriage.
He promised me a house in Cape Town.
He promised me children.
He said he had no wife but he took his ring off to meet me.
And then he took the dream away from me.
He just threw me away when he found another girl.
Oh, Jesus, Jesus, please, no! All I am doing is telling the truth! All I am doing is telling the truth.
Claire.
Mrs Unwin.
Will you come with me, please? It's all right.
You shouldn't be here.
We're going to take you home.
Step into the vehicle, please.
Her name is Angel Opara.
She's a bar girl and we are very keen to protect you from her.
Now, there's been a lot of nonsense talked about the circumstances of your husband's death but the situation according to Krielson is this.
Todd, the man you quite rightly identified as a problem to your husband, was running a prostitution racket here in Port Harcourt.
And his intention was to extend his operation and use your husband to help him ship the girls to London.
Krielson don't know what the planned precise set-up was, but this was a situation that so terrified your husband that he was unable to talk to you about it.
Your husband's kidnap, his death and the death of his colleagues was in no way related to Todd.
Am I being clear to you? '.
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in one of the most unstable areas in the world.
'These shocking images were posted anonymously to the offices of a German TV station yesterday.
'This follows criticism by the Norwegian ambassador at the 'United Nations of the Nigerian government's heavy-handed crackdown on opposition groups 'in their hunt for those responsible for the oil contractors' deaths.
'The particular horror of these images 'is certain to cause outrage throughout' Where the hell did they get that film from, Ed? I handed it over to Lieutenant Commander Tayo! Yes, I know you did.
But I'm afraid you're going to have to make this right for us and with no criticism of him.
So, who takes the blame? Me? Yes.
Our only option is to present this as your error.
A slip in security in allowing the tape to be stolen from your office.
We agreed that this was the best way forward.
Who did? With who? With Tayo.
But we all understand perfectly well that someone in the police department sold it for a little extra cash.
No-one is going to believe that it was stolen from my office, Ed.
They don't have to believe it but you do have to say it.
What if this guy killed your workers? Which guy? Tayo! You know, I am getting a very nasty feeling that I'm defending something that cannot be defended.
Alice, all I am asking you to do is to cover-up for a military officer who is on our side and who we don't want to see lose his job.
OK.
You give me the truth on that.
OK.
How about me and you getting some air? Believe it or not, you can get the best coffee in Nigeria on this boat.
So you're telling me that this is true? What do you know about that boat? What do you mean? Like, have you any idea who owns it? No.
The Russian mafia.
It's full of oil.
And it's all stolen from our pipelines.
When politicians here talk about oil bunkering, they mean the guy with his jerry can and his plastic bottle stealing oil from the pipes and selling it on the streets for 50 cents, but this is the real oil bunkering.
Tankers full of it.
I'll tell you how it works.
Nigerian Mr A goes into business with Russian mafia Mr B.
Together they go into business with a militia gang.
This gang then siphons off the oil into barges owned by Nigerian Mr A.
Mr A's barges take the oil to this tanker and the tanker sets sail for Rotterdam.
The world buys the oil.
Mr A and Mr B become very rich.
So who is Mr A? Everyone in politics and business here in this country is Mr A.
It's the same people trading the oil, whether through legitimate contracts with the oil companies or stealing it through the pipelines.
The same businessmen, the same politicians.
This is oil bunkering.
The whole of Nigerian business is oil bunkering.
Someone is stealing it for somebody.
And what should be one of the world's richest places is one of the poorest.
80 million Nigerians live in abject poverty.
And the bare-foot guy selling his bunkered oil on the street corner is just trying to survive.
That is all you need to know about how politics is run in this country.
Except perhaps one specific detail you should know.
The Mr A in this particular case is your father.
My father? When he was in government here, he made his money through the oil commissions.
Now he's out of government, he makes it like this.
But there's no shame in it, Alice.
Legitimate and illegitimate have no meaning because everything is corrupt and therefore nothing is corrupt.
Your father, the politician, the militia thugs, us -- we're all on the same wheel of fortune.
And this article? I don't know.
I haven't seen it.
That is how we all operate here.
We turn a blind eye, Alice.
Me.
Your father.
You.
My father is a decent and a good man.
What he's achieved This is what I'm trying to tell you.
He's done well for himself.
And done well for you.
You have no right -- you have no right, to talk about my father like that in front of me.
He was brought up on that stinking waterfront over there and you have no right.
You have no fucking right! 'My dad is the dearest man.
'And there his is on the roadside and he's selling dried fish with the women.
'That is my father at 11 years old.
'I am the luckiest woman in the world to be the daughter of that 11-year-old boy.
'I owe my wonderful father everything.
' I've come to see Keme Tobodo.
Well, then, show me the naira.
She wants to see Keme.
What are you doing here? I was just passing, so I though I'd I've brought you some things.
I didn't bring any medicines, but I can if you No, I don't need any, but thank you.
And thank you for this.
You don't mind if I eat it right away, do you? Oh, no, no.
Go ahead.
Thank you.
They will take it off me if I don't eat it.
Come, sit.
Do you want? No, no.
You carry on.
So, what happens now? Have you been charged with anything? I don't know.
I expect they will just keep me here.
For how long? A week, a month, a year.
I've no idea.
Will you let me try and get you out of here? Wouldn't that be crossing the line for you? I actually thought it might compromise you.
You know, accepting assistance from a representative of the oil industry.
I have no problem with the oil industry in the Delta, only with the way it operates.
But are you here as their representative or No.
Just for myself, my own reasons.
So, will you let me try and get you out of here? Have you got a plan? Yeah.
And it's very simple.
A phone call to the man who put you in here.
Tayo? Yeah.
He could cause you a lot of trouble.
Shall we see? Why are you doing this? Well, because Because when I came to see you that afternoon in the village, I liked what you were saying.
So I'll call him.
I also listened when you told me aboutyour father.
Lieutenant Commander Tayo? This is Alice Omuka.
Lieutenant Commander, as you are telling me to take the blame for the release of that film, I am telling you to give the order for the release of Mr Tobodo.
I'm holding a press conference at two o'clock this afternoon.
If Mr Tobodo calls me before then to say that he's been freed, I'll take responsibility for the leaked film.
If you do not release him, I'll tell the press that it was leaked by you.
No.
No, I'm not going to debate this.
That's the deal.
Two o'clock.
Good.
That's done.
MOBILE PHONE RINGS Hello? 'Miss Omuka?' Yeah.
'It's Noel Ijeoma.
'I need to see you.
Can you bring Mrs Unwin?' HORN BLARES Was your husband once a soldier? He was in the Royal Signals.
The other two men who died with him were also once upon a time soldiers.
This friend of his, Todd, in your photograph, for the last 20 years, this man has been working as a mercenary in Africa's wars.
Sierra Leone, Burundi, Congo, Angola, Liberia Everywhere there was a war, he was there, recruiting and training soldiers.
He was here in Port Harcourt because he was hired by a local businessman to recruit soldiers now working for the oil companies.
And he recruited your husband.
For what? I don't know.
For who? A man called Charles Meribe.
A former governor of the state.
The man who owns the compound where Mark lived.
Unfortunately he has just left the country.
All three men killed were being hired illegally and secretly by Charles Meribe.
So why am I being told about a plan to send bar girls to London for prostitution? These people are lying to you.
To make you go home.
Meribe was recruiting soldiers.
Forget about bar girls, this was a military operation.
Maybe you know something? This is the first time that I've heard anything about hiring soldiers.
This is the first time! MOBILE PHONE RINGS Hello? 'Like magic!' Where are you? 'Outside the prison.
' That's fantastic.
Can we meet? 'I will send one of my guys to pick you up.
' OK.
Keme Tobodo has been released.
That was him? Yeah.
I made a deal with Tayo.
That's good.
Yes, that's very good! I said I wanted to meet him because he may have some information from the creeks for you, Claire.
He's sending someone to the hotel to pick me up.
No, I want to go to the creeks myself.
No, no.
We will do this for you.
I can use a contact of mine in the joint task force to find out exactly what Mr Meribe was up to.
Then we will know for certain who killed your husband.
And why.
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
First of all, a statement on the images that found their way to the network newsdesk.
I greatly regret that these distressing images have been leaked to the media and I offer my most profound apologies to the families of the deceased.
This film was stolen from my office here in Port Harcourt and I take full responsibility for not securing it sufficiently.
We have set up an internal investigation in conjunction with Lieutenant Commander Tunde Tayo of the Joint Task Force, and I thank him for his cooperation in this matter.
Alice Omuka? Yes.
My name is Antony Tarila.
I have come to take you to see Keme.
Oh, right.
Thank you.
MOBILE PHONE RINGS Hello? 'It's Keme, where are you? My man is waiting in the lobby for you.
' No, it's OK.
I'm already with him.
'He's in the hotel reception right now.
' What's his name? 'You met.
Andrew.
He brought you to me last time.
'Alice, the man you are with must work for Tunde Tayo.
'Alice Alice' Get out the way, man! Are you OK? Sorry.
Bring her to my shop.
Where is my bag? Do I have a bag? A bag.
Yeah, you have a bag.
Look.
There's a phone in there.
Can you see a phone? Oh, thank you.
Thank you very much.
Thank you all very much.
I appreciate it.
Thank you.
Oh, thank you.
I am so sorry.
Is your cart all right? So, your trouble has come early with Mr Tunde Tayo.
That was quick off the mark.
You must consider yourself lucky.
How are you? I'm OK.
They've put me back together again.
Thank you, my sisters.
You're welcome, my brother.
We'll get you back to the hotel.
Excuse me, madam.
You must look at these.
The journalist asked too many questions.
Don't make the same mistake.
That is the message.
You won't get away with this! You go tell them that! Noel was killed to stop him making this journey.
Are you sure you want to go ahead? Yes, I am.
Even if we don't find out anything? I need to see where he spent the last few days of his life.
And the men he spent them with.
I understand that.
He's been accused of taking whores and of running a prostitution racket and of being a mercenary.
He just came out here to earn enough money to buy us a home together, that's all.
And I want to hear that for myself.
That this is all he was, just a good man and a loving husband who came out here for me.
I deserve to hear that.
I need to know what really happened to him.
OK.
It's all set up.
We can go.
3,000 naira.
I want too much now.
2,000.
2,000 naira.
That too small, put more money I say 2,000.
Put more money.
Look at my children.
2,500.
Cover her eye.
Put these on.
HE WHISTLES DISTANT WHISTLE REPLIES THEY SPEAK IN LOCAL DIALEC Come on.
CONVERSATION CONTINUES Make a check them.
He's just going to search you.
What are you, British? Yes.
She's the widow of one of the executed men, Mark Unwin.
She's Who are you? I'm Alice.
I'm a friend of Mrs Unwin's.
They wanted to see you because they wanted to know what happened.
I'm very angry with you! Very angry! The British, you are wicked, wicked people for conniving with our governments, reneging on promises at independence and waging a 50-year-war against us with the stealing of our oil.
But now we are fighting you back.
Yes.
We are fighting you back! One, we will localise control of the delta oil.
Two, we will have reparation from the national government for the polluting of our creeks.
And three, there will be a total demilitarisation of our land.
And there will be no peace for you until this happens.
Not at all! This time it is us who are waging the war against you.
She has come because she wanted to know what happened to her husband.
What is the talk? You say I killed him? No.
No, no, no.
I killed your husband? No, no, I No, no, no.
She's not saying that.
Ebi, she's not saying that.
No, you are wicked people to say I killed your husband! That makes me very angry.
We trade the white man, we don't kill them! What do we want to kill him for when we agreed to give him back? We want the white man to go home.
We don't want to kill him.
I will tell you what happened.
Your husband, we looked after him.
We fed him.
We gave him drink, gave him medicine.
He thanked me for looking after him.
Listen to me.
Your husband, Mark, he shook my hand.
The last time I saw him, he shook my hand.
He said to me, "Thank you, you are a kind man.
" The last thing he said to me, "You are a kind man.
" We have a man here who will tell you what happened.
Come.
You see, you -- you are the bad people.
This man will tell you what happened.
This is my husband's bodyguard.
The other man in my photograph.
Six of our boys took your boys, including this man, to where we had agreed to hand them over.
The next thing we hear on the news channels, the three white men have been killed.
Come here.
Tell them what happened.
Come! Our boat came under attack.
I didn't know who it was.
I just dived into the water.
I was hiding in the mangrove and I saw that two of the white men had been killed in the attack.
All our boys taking them to freedom also killed.
All our boys! The men attacking us were the soldiers of the Joint Task Force.
You see? The government killing them! These government soldiers, they then began to cross the river to rescue your husband.
He was so happy to be taken home by these people, but instead of saving them and taking them home, this soldier went up to him, took a gun, put it up to him and shot him in the head.
You see? Tunde Tayo.
Tunde Tayo.
That's the man who killed your husband.
Why did they kill them? To blame us.
So they can get the support of the British and American governments to come here with their helicopter gunships and jet planes and every weapon on God's earth.
I came here and I told my friends here what had happened.
And today we have recovered the bodies of our six boys.
The same man who killed your husband.
The same man! Tunde Tayo.
This is the man who killed your husband.
Tunde Tayo.
The Joint Task Force.
I want to go now.
Can we go? OK.
Let's go, let's go.
Go! Go back and tell the world what really happened.
That was not why Tunde Tayo killed him.
Not at all.
Not at all.
Why did they do it, Lucky? Madam, please Come on.
Go! Go! My husband was in trouble, wasn't he? Why was he in trouble? You know why, don't you? Keep moving.
Move! Tell me.
Please.
Mark didn't tell me anything, nothing about it until after we were kidnapped.
I know my husband was recruited by a man named Meribe and I know this man was wanting soldiers.
But what for? Why was he recruiting soldiers? Madam, please Tell me please! The plan was for your husband and the other men to blow up their own company's oil rig.
What? God forgive me.
I would have stopped him if he would have told me.
Move! Move! But why? This was Mr Meribe's plan.
I don't know why.
Mark didn't even know why himself.
For him, it was just about the money.
All about the money.
Come on! I would have stopped him if he would have told me.
He was like a different person.
He got greedy.
Greedy for everything.
Did he love Angel? God forgive him for taking her into his arms.
Miss Omuka? Yeah.
Can I ask you something? Can you ask someone to make sure I am safe when we return to Port Harcourt so I can be with my wife and my children? Yeah.
I'll do that.
The government want to get rid of me because of everything I know.
I want to be in my church again, with my wife and my children.
I'll do whatever I can to make it safe for you.
Thank you, madam.
Cover your eyes.
You go home and you tell the truth about what is happening in my land.
GUNFIRE Oh, my God.
Lucky.
Mrs Unwin.
Lieutenant Commander Tunde Tayo.
Please, let me help you.
It's Tunde here.
Tell the Minister that the fourth hostage has been shot in a fire fight with the militants.
My guys will take me back from here.
There was nothing I will go and talk to his family.
These men are all here because they want to take over our leases on the oil blocks.
Some of them would pay millions to make that happen.
One successful attack on an oil rig could push our companies out forever.
Mr Meribe, the men financing him and the men working for him, including Mark, they were creating that opportunity.
Our countries need this oil so they had to be stopped.
Miss Omuka, your car has arrived.
Thank you.
How long have you known about Meribe? A while.
A girl called Angel told us.
Mr Unwin had promised her a house with a swimming pool and then got bored with her.
He told her.
She told us.
But it was no great conspiracy, Alice.
No great cover-up, just another businessman and four guys trying to get closer to the money, just another little story in this endless story of greed.
And, you know, it's a better world for everyone else to not know what's happening here.
Whatever you know, just let it stay with us.
My husband Mark will always be remembered by me and by everyone who knew him as a good and kind man who was killed a very long way from home, serving the needs of his country.
He died a hero.
And I am very proud of him.
Alice! Oh, Alice! Welcome home.
Welcome home, my dear.
My friend Charles Meribe was just telling me he had the pleasure of meeting you in Port Harcourt.
Oh, yes.
And I still cannot buy you that drink.
You're welcome, Alice.
Your father has been very kindly looking after me during my visit here.
Isn't she beautiful? Oh, yes, she is.
My dear, dear daughter, welcome home.
It's good to see you.
We have all the riches of the world under our feet, but what do you have? No medical centre, no sanitation, not even running water.
This is not how to create a nation.
A nation exists when all the people share the profits of the land together, not just the Ijaw or the Igbo or Yoruba, but the Ogoni, the Isopko and the Urhobo.
A nation exists when all the people come together.
And you create this nation only when you carry respect for others.
When there is respect for others, there is no corruption.
And you give respect -- you don't take it, you give it.
You give respect.
And this is how we are going to move forward together.
Then we can rise up and demand our schools, our medical centres, our electricity, our running water, our libraries and our share of the rewards of the work.
This is what society should be and this is what we are going to rise up and create together.
Ama! Ama! Thank you.
Please join us.
Thank you.
Ah, thank you.
Thank you.
Please join us.
Please join us.
Thank you.
Thank you.