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Title: | The Changing Predatory Styles of International Companies in Nigeria |
Author: | Kemedi, Dimieari von |
Year: | 2003 |
Periodical: | Review of African Political Economy |
Volume: | 30 |
Issue: | 95 |
Pages: | 134-139 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | social conflicts poverty oil companies Economics and Trade Development and Technology Politics and Government Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056240308370 |
Abstract: | Since the discovery of oil in Nigeria's delta in the late 1950s, the dream of oil as a commodity that would improve the lives of people in Nigeria has degenerated into a nightmare. Crude oil has become a source of poverty and conflict. Poverty has mainly resulted from the forced seizure of family or communal land by the Federal Government in favour of the oil companies and the pollution of adjoining lands, creeks, rivers and the sea upon which the people depend for their livelihood. The alliance of international oil companies and the Obasanjo administration has perfected a policy to bring a final solution to the problem of the Niger Delta. This policy consists of using the recently established Niger Delta Development Commission and the international oil companies to corrupt, discredit, confuse and/or divide the leadership and peoples of the Niger Delta and to intensify the use of violence. It is a testimony to the peaceful disposition of the Delta people that they have not embarked on armed struggle to press their demand for resource control. However, it is possible that, as a result of their sufferings, the Delta people will look for new strategies. There may emerge an increased popular interest, which would likely clash with cabalistic manipulations, leading to the suppression of the will of the people and then a counter popular movement which may dismantle Nigeria's political order and bring about greater instability. Bibliogr. [ASC Leiden abstract] |