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Apart from Bayelsa, where they are dominant, Ijaws are also found in the other eight oil-producing states.
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Demanding a share of the profits for their region, radical young Ijaws, members of the delta's largest ethnic group, began kidnapping oil workers and seizing industry facilities late last year.
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The oil giants insist they have no quarrel with the Ijaws.
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Since Ijaws, who number some 12 million, were the source of the country's oil wealth they should have more states, argued Okoko, whose group includes all the Ijaw organisations in the Delta region.
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Making the appeal during the Ijaws 'national day in Bayelsa's capital Yenagoa, Okoko said Nigerian Vice President Goodluck Jonathan, who himself originates from Bayelsa, should use his position to promote the idea of creating new Ijaw states.
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No one is sure what Nigeria's newly elected civilian president will do about the Ijaws.
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Many of the more than 5 million Ijaws complain that Abuja ignores them because they are outnumbered by Nigeria's three largest ethnic groups, the Hausa, the Yoruba and the Ibo, who together constitute roughly half of the country's 120 million people.
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The government gets 80 percent of its revenues from the vast oil fields under and around the Ijaws 'villages.
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The group would not continue to accept a situation where "the Ijaws are balkanised in some states in the country."
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Last month Nigerian soldiers opened fire on a group of Ijaws from the village of Ojobo who were attempting to occupy a drilling rig operated by a Shell sub-contractor on the Bomadi Creek 160 kilomtres west of Port Harcourt.
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