Recounting Offshore Multinational Oil Corporations’ Induced Conflict Costs on the Survival of Coastal Communities in Nigeria
Publication Date: 25/11/2020
Author(s): Fie David Dan-Woniowei, Victor Ojakorotu.
Volume/Issue: Volume 3 , Issue 6 (2020)
Abstract:
Multinational Oil Corporations (MNOCs)’ induced conflicts and military raids on local oil-bearing communities in the Niger Delta no longer make headline news in Nigeria. Many may be living in that euphoria as if the issues which usually provoke such conflicts are completely resolved in the country’s oil-rich region. Suffice to state that the issues which usually induces them and the costs continue to place heavily burden on the survival of oil-bearing communities across the Niger Delta. This paper recounts Offshore Multinational Oil Corporations (OMNOCs)’ induced conflict costs on the survival of coastal communities in Nigeria. This conflict-cost-survival analysis was appraised using quantitative technique involving 471 respondents from 6 Local Government Areas, 3 each from Bayelsa and Delta States in the Niger Delta of Nigeria. The findings show that the OMNOCs’ induced conflicts exacerbate costs including death and destruction of properties, forced migration, social disorder, breakdown of families, and total dislocation of businesses in the region. It therefore, recommends that the OMNOCs and the Federal Government of Nigeria should endeavour to avoid use of force to quelling oil-related conflicts in the Niger Delta.
Keywords:
Coastal, Communities, Conflict, Multinational Oil Corporations, Offshore, Survival, Nigeria
