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Title:The Niger Delta crisis: a focus on post-amnesty militancy and national security
Author:Ojione, Ojieh ChukwuemekaISNI
Year:2010
Periodical:African journal of international affairs = Revue africaine des affaires internationales (ISSN 0850-7902)
Volume:13
Issue:1-2
Pages:1-14
Language:English
Geographic term:Nigeria
Subjects:Niger Delta conflict
amnesty
national security
External link:https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ajia/article/view/99571
Abstract:The government-sponsored Amnesty Programme for militants disrupting oil production in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria has resulted in relative peace in the area. By 4 October 2009 when the Amnesty offer officially ended, several militant groups had embraced the scheme. Consequently, Nigeria's oil production, which dropped from 2.6 million barrels a day to about 1 million at the peak of the Niger Delta crisis between 2006 and 2009, has now risen to 2.1 million barrels daily. But recent events have raised doubts as to whether the Amnesty Programme can tame the monster of militancy in the Niger Delta. This is because post-amnesty militancy has assumed even more frightening dimensions. The twist in the current wave of militancy, which now extends the battle outside the creeks, going upland and sometimes to the seats of government, portends a larger threat to the nation's security. This article submits that the olive branch which the Amnesty Programme presents, is not likley to sufficiently assuage the restive minds in the region. Anything short of owner-control or at least owner-participation in the management of the resources of the Niger Delta region would remain mere palliative. Bibliogr., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract]
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