TITLE:
Green Criminology and Degradation of the Environment by Activities of Multinational Oil Companies in Nigeria’s Niger Delta
AUTHORS:
Yusuf Usman
KEYWORDS:
Criminology, Green Criminology, Multinational Oil Companies, Niger Delta and Environment
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.9 No.12,
December
21,
2021
ABSTRACT: The Niger Delta region is the hub of Nigeria’s oil and gas production,
which account for more than 80% of Government revenue and 95 percent of Foreign
Exchange. As part of the drive for colonialism was quest for natural resources
and cheap labour, so was the drive for the discovery of oil in Nigeria. Discovery
of marketable oil was made in the late 50s, the finding that came with attendant
consequences on the environment. The main consequence is oil spillage that has
been going on for decades. The local people were not only denied their
traditional means of livelihood but also not given adequate compensation. This
study aims to highlight how oil spillage and oil theft
has been degrading the Niger Delta environment. The study adopted a
quantitative method to seek the views of some Nigerians on how long do they think
the environmental degradation has been going on in the Niger Delta, and how
serious or un-serious are the multinational oil companies in cleaning the
environment.