Nigeria - Rebels overplayed hand?

NIGERIA: Clean, Lean, Mean And On The Offensive

Key Points:

• New army commander because the previous one may have been corrupt.
• Rebels are demanding a cease fire.
• Investigators have been sent to check reports of payoffs to the military in the delta.

Hopefully this will payoff. Lots of corruption in Nigeria with the rebels able to make money by siphoning off the oil, which buys them speedboats and weapons. It looks like as long as they did not cause to much damage they were ignored, as the local government was more focused on lining their pockets. But they did too much damage, so now the military in the area seems to be cleaning itself up and being more effective.

Nigeria has such potential, but the corruption has hurt the country so much.