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To what extend will the current security approach to the Niger Delta conflict yield sustainable peace?
Historically, decades of repression in the oil and gas region does not seem to yielded any good result. Rather, it keeps throwing up new forms of resistance. In the days of the palm oil trade, the British imperialists used the military in a desperate attempt to cow the local people. We are seeing the same mistake with the crude oil business. Continued impunity threw up the current wave of militancy.
And so, whats the best possible way out of the seeming vicious cycle?
Akanimo Sampson
Perhaps this tool will assist with gathering ideas and information to better understand both the repression in the Niger Delta and ways that petroleum corporations, Nigerian state, and international actors (Britain, United States, China) contribute to and justify such repression.
Akanimo Sampson wrote:
> To what extend will the current security approach to the Niger Delta conflict yield sustainable peace?
> Historically, decades of repression in the oil and gas region does not seem to yielded any good result. Rather, it keeps throwing up new forms of resistance. In the days of the palm oil trade, the British imperialists used the military in a desperate attempt to cow the local people. We are seeing the same mistake with the crude oil business. Continued impunity threw up the current wave of militancy.
> And so, whats the best possible way out of the seeming vicious cycle?
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> Akanimo Sampson
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