Heavily polluted from 50 years of living with the oil industry, the
Niger Delta is riddled with corruption, oil theft and sabotage. This
investigation reveals why oil and the Delta's residents do not mix.
Nigeria
says it's losing 400,000 barrels of oil a day to criminal activity.
"The military are the biggest players. There's nothing you can do
without seeking their consent", says a local oil trader. Nnimmo Bassey
of Oil Watch International agues that, "oil has been the major factor
that has dislocated everything", but others believe it can still benefit
the local people.
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