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The Niger Delta Crisis: It’s Impact On Nigerian’s National Security
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1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEMS
In this work, I attempt to answer
the entire questions of the place of crude oil in the escalation and
the reduction of the Niger Delta crisis. The significance of the other
exigencies or factors in the crisis? The contributions of the
Multinational Corporation and different political ferments in the
region? The Niger Delta crisis cannot be understood without a critical
understanding of the relationship between individual communities on the
one hand and with the federal government on the other hand which revolve
round the control of resources and retarded infrastructural, economic
and social development in the region.
To what extents have the crisis
constitutes threats to national security? Put differently, what is the
threat which the crisis is posing to the Nigeria’s nascent democracy?
How crisis have metamorphosed in the all-embracing concept of national
security is also analyzed and the entire attempts made by the federal
government to preserve legitimacy in the name of the fundamental
national security are not left undiscussed.
Niger Delta crisis at
every point in time have threatened the primacy responsibility of the
government in terms of security of lives and properties and the
preservation of oneness of Nigeria as a single political entity.2
National security transcends the primary role of the government in the
protection of lives and properties. It also involves the international
security and sovereignty. The gagging question is: is the Niger Delta
crisis posing any threat to the international security and sovereignty
of the Nigerian nation?
1.3 OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
National security questions and the role played by the Niger Delta crisis is theme which requires adequate scholarly attention.
The objective of this study therefore are
1. To look at how the Niger Delta crisis affects Nigerian national security.
2. To locate the impact of the Niger Delta crisis within the framework of its implication of national security.
3. To see how regional based crisis affect the survival of the entire country.
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To identify the changing dynamics and what constitutes nationals
security over the years and how the nation state of Nigeria has been
contending with the crisis.
5. The place of rude oil in the escalation and in the reduction of the Niger Delta crisis.
6. The significance of the other exigencies or factors in the crisis.
7. The contribution of the multination corporation and different political ferments in the regions.
1.4 JUSTIFICATION
The
justification for this work can best be appreciated from two major
perspectives namely, the need to carryout a critical academic analysis
of he origin of the Nigeria Delta Crisis and an appraisal of the impact
of the Niger Delta Crisis on national security, hence the changing
dynamics of the crisis and the high degree of internationalization which
its taken in recent years. The internationalization of the Niger Delta
Crisis is as old as the history of the crisis itself; however, in recent
years the concern of the international community is getting higher and
higher.
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