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Title:From the OMPADEC to the NDDC: an assessment of State responses to environmental insecurity in the Niger Delta, Nigeria
Author:Omotola, J. SholaISNI
Year:2007
Periodical:Africa Today
Volume:54
Issue:1
Pages:73-89
Language:English
Geographic term:Nigeria
Subjects:environmental degradation
development corporations
petroleum industry
government policy
External link:http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/africa_today/v054/54.1omotola.pdf
Abstract:This article evaluates State responses to environmental insecurity in the Niger Delta. It analyses the performance of the Oil Mineral Producing Area Development Commission (OMPADEC) and the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) as the most outstanding institutional responses to a deepening crisis and contradictions of the delta by the federal government of Nigeria. Its central finding is that, though these responses have moderated the crisis, they remain inadequate and ineffective, epitomized by increasing environmental degradation, excruciating poverty, rising tension and ethnic militias, and general underdevelopment. The inadequacy of these responses may not be unconnected with political influences, corruption, unrepresentativeness, and other underlying structural problems that render them cosmetic. A developmental Nigerian State that is autonomous and productive, rather than rent-seeking, coupled with good governance at all levels, is required to engage the problems of the delta adequately. All institutional responses should be closely linked with grassroots organizations, particularly community-development associations and related rural-empowerment nongovernmental organizations, with adequate frameworks for monitoring and evaluation. Bibliogr., sum. [Journal abstract]
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