Oil Turmoil - Nigeria

March 1999
This beautifully-shot expose takes you to the heart of the corporate/tribal struggle. Nigeria's impoverished oil-producing communities are outraged.

They see few returns from the myriad of oil wells that pollute their villages. We see forests destroyed by disastrous oil spills, whilst Shell provides evidence to suggest many spills are sabotage, in order to gain compensation. But time has run out for the beleaguered multi-national: Ijaw youths issued the 'Kaiama declaration', demanding Shell leave their land by December. The deadline was ignored and the Ijaw have relaunched a new bout of forced closures and hostage-taking. Shell is powerless to defend itself without calling in the corrupt and vicious army. Wounded youths lie in crude hospitals, victims of the army's defence of the flow stations they fail to seize. Felix Tuodolo, signatory of the Kaiama declaration, says the crisis will continue:'We will keep going down to those flow stations. Our blood will flow.' He claims the Ijaw remain unarmed, but reports of armed youths training in the bush spell out a bleak future. Shell says it is ready to negotiate, but it may be too little, too late.

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[suspendmeassholes]

@Ballzdeap89 Finally. Somebody who gets it.

[Ballzdeap89]

The Nigerian leadership makes me sick. They need to watch what how the arabs manipulated there oil resources to gain political leverage against the west. Its time for Nigeria to take its place as the leader of West Africa and stop with bending over for these bastards. Im not Nigerian im Jamaican but i feel Nigerian leadership is crucial for West African devlopment.

[tommcat100]

Es ist leider die Wahrheit!Allein in Nigeria wird soviel Öl in die Umwelt gebracht entweder durch Lecks oder abfackeln von Öl,das man ganz Europa mit Energie versorgen könnte!!!

[KripDrip]

850 dollars for what? what did he say?

[Nnfefe]

The last thing Igbos should want is to become another riverine pollution problem now that massive oil deposits have been found in Imo and Anambra

[HRHewokimi]

we are looking for specialist on bomb making material and divers who can submerge and let us put an end to the oil companies destroying the land of the Delta"s people....

Patriot Or Death

[Nnfefe]

Can't contain my laugh, you people have not seen pepper yet

[kuroyoroki]

My people oil is bigger than one country government. The multi-national companies like SHELL OIL need to end and a company they are using blood money to fund western countries. The blood money profit they make in billions or pounds, euros, and dollas stay in the western world. WE hate Shell as a company, shell is own by the European governments. Human right, land mass dead.

[craigmarsfeld]

@SaddamRussein I agree with you..and I think...it is best if we serve some cocktails of oil to CEO of big companies, too...lol??

[craigmarsfeld]

@fredondo2 well, they`ve done it the right way