Oil Turmoil - Nigeria
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March 1999
This beautifully-shot expose takes you to the heart of the corporate/tribal struggle. Nigeria's impoverished oil-producing communities are outraged.
They see few returns from the myriad of oil wells that pollute their villages. We see forests destroyed by disastrous oil spills, whilst Shell provides evidence to suggest many spills are sabotage, in order to gain compensation. But time has run out for the beleaguered multi-national: Ijaw youths
issued the 'Kaiama declaration', demanding Shell leave their land by December. The deadline was ignored and the Ijaw have relaunched a new bout of forced closures and hostage-taking. Shell is powerless to defend itself without calling in the corrupt and vicious army. Wounded youths lie in crude hosp
itals, victims of the army's defence of the flow stations they fail to seize. Felix Tuodolo, signatory of the Kaiama declaration, says the crisis will continue:'We will keep going down to those flow stations. Our blood will flow.' He claims the Ijaw remain unarmed, but reports of armed youths traini
ng in the bush spell out a bleak future. Shell says it is ready to negotiate, but it may be too little, too late.
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Its a very very fucked up situation-Pray for Nigerians future
If the oil companies pull out from the country, what are the Nigerian who work for all these companies going to do?
i want just to writie to you about Nigeria
and i wann say Nigeria is a full of oil but the gaoverment is not that good..
soo hope to talk with yaa soon ....am not from nigeria am from oman??? do ya know it??
we blame both our government and oil company. And recently i'm starting to blame foreign government. I suggest read a boook written on Nnamdi Azikiwe. I read an interesting thing about him recently. He was the first president nigeria had. He took care of the people, he wasn't corrupt. Few years
in office, Military coup happened and they kicked him out. I just recently read his life histoy and i learnt the britian actually sponsored (cont..)
We blame the oil company because they do that in every country with an oil. Check Alaska and it's native's. Canadians and the Native Americans, Ireland, Colombia, and all middle East country and then come back and tell me if we shouldn't blame them. (Cont)...
Africa had all this natrual resources in the past but yet our ancestor lived better live than we do now. Even tribes that doesn't rely in this natural resources are livng better than us(I.E: Dogons, etc).
The richest black man alive is a nigerian and that man has a lot of compaines inculding oil company and yet his not doing the same thing Shell or any of the western companies are doing. His using Nigerian oil and his actually cleaning up after himself. I wonder why those other oil companies can't
do that.
letting greedy, visionless, vicious agberos lead us...