Resource control,revenue allocation and petroleum politics in Nigeria: the Niger Delta question |
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Authors: | Paul S Orogun |
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Institution: | (1) Politics Department, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL 60045, USA |
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Abstract: | The Niger Delta question represents one of the most intractable sources of political destabilization, constitutes a profound
threat to national security, and economic development of the Nigerian state. Therefore, the study of the intricate dynamics
among multinational oil corporations, the Nigerian State, and insurgent militias illuminates the root causes, societal schisms
and the political economy of resource induced conflicts in Africa’s major oil producing nation state. This case study illustrates
and explicates the “paradox of plenty”, the “resource curse”, the “shadow state syndrome”, and the debilitating effects of
petroleum politics in Nigeria. Economic exploitation of the region’s vast crude oil reserves by multinationals and government
authorities is juxtaposed with the specter of environmental devastation, excruciating poverty, and recurrent rule of impunity.
National elite contestations concerning the legalities of resource control, internecine squabbles over revenue allocation
formulas and derivation principles have been compounded by incessant disruptions of crude oil pipelines, necessitating drastic
reduction in the country’s petroleum output and revenues derived from the global economy. Due to the multi-layered dimensions
of the effects of crude oil, guns, profits, and geo-territorial instability, the protracted problems of the Niger Delta thus,
provides us with pertinent analytical and contextual frameworks for the study of the dynamics, volatility and transparency
issues in global extractive industries. In the muddled rivers and creeks of the Niger Delta, characterized by regional destabilization,
there has emerged a clandestine economy of protection syndicates, marked exponential increase in kidnappings and targeting
of expatriate workers, as well as state sponsored military reprisals against self-styled insurgents, warlords, and militia
movements. |
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