Oil, NGOs &amp; youths: struggles for resource control in the Niger delta

Ifeka, Caroline

doi:10.1080/03056240108704507

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Review of African Political Economy

Volume 28, Issue 87

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Oil, NGOs & youths: struggles for resource control in the Niger delta

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Author(s): Caroline Ifeka

Publication date (Print): March 2001

Journal: Review of African Political Economy

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The Niger Delta, one of the world's largest wetlands and the sixth largest exporter of crude oil, is notorious for environmental pollution, poverty and violence. For four decades the Federal Nigerian Government has neglected its obligations to fishing communities in the vicinity of oil wells or facing offshore platforms. Although the Federal Government takes 60% of the dollar sales of crude oil (40% goes to the oil companies), the political class has declined to regulate gas flaring, pipeline maintenance or levels of spillage. Frustrated by their exclusion from the benefits of oil, militant youths attack oil company installations, hi‐jack personnel, and lay waste to villages believed to harbour oil reserves, leaving many homeless. These angry subalterns believe that their communities own and should control of the natural resources in their vicinity. The consequence is an increase of casualties in inter‐communal raids and counter‐raids, in wildfires at spillage sites, and in shootings by ‘mobile police’ when demonstrating youths enter the oil installations that they guard.

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Title: Review of African Political Economy

Publisher: Review of African Political Economy

ISSN (Print): 0305-6244

ISSN (Electronic): 1740-1720

Publication date (Print): March 2001

Volume: 28

Issue: 87

Pages: 99-105

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Publisher ID: 8704507 Coden ID: Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 28, No. 87, March 2001, pp. 99-105

DOI: 10.1080/03056240108704507

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[1] Akanimo S. . 2000. . ‘Oil communities plan showdown with governors over 13% derivation’. . Saturday Punch . , 25 April;

[2] Banjo Yemi. . 2000. . ‘Don't blame us for violence in Ogoni‐Shell’. . The Punch . , 24 April;

[3] Chigbo Ejiofo. . 2000. . ‘National Conference and Ethnic Militia’. . Body and Soul . , 9 January;: 21––23. .

[4] Escobar A. . 1995. . Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World . , Princeton , NJ : : Princeton University Press. .

[5] Ifeka C. . 2000. . ‘Conflict, Complicity and Confusion: Unravelling Empowerment Struggles in Nigeria after the Return to “Democracy"’. . Review of African Political Economy . , Vol. 83:: 115––123. .

[6] 2000. . ‘Ethnic “Nationalities”, God and the State: Whither the Federal Republic of Nigeria?’. . Review of African Political Economy . , : 84

[7] Mba G. . 1999. . ‘I was asked to blow up pipelines’. . Tell . , 22 November;: 20––21. .

[8] Ofonimeumanah. . 2000. . ‘Irate youths capture two oil firm workers’. . Sunday Punch . , 12 April;

[9] Stride G and Ifeka C. . 1971. . Peoples and Empires of West Africa . , London : : Nelson and Sons. .

[10] Ugbolue Henry. . 1999. . ‘Oily War’. . Tempo . , 22 October;: 3––4. .