Oil Thefts and Pipeline Vandalization in Nigeria

Edobor Igbinovia

Description

Oil Thefts and Pipeline Vandalization in Nigeria focuses on leakages in oil revenue through thefts and vandalisation which has now become a national shame and embarrassment. The book presents a scholarly evaluation of the evolution, etiology, causes, nature, extent, characteristics, legal aspects, trends rationale and modus operandi of the phenomena in the country. This study is a substantial academic contribution to our knowledge on the subject matter for further research by social scientists and scholars, legal practitioners, law enforcement professionals, criminal justicians, corporate officials and other interest groups and stakeholders.

Sujets

• Sociology

Informations

• Publié par: Safari Books Ltd
• Date de parution: 17 juillet 2014
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9789788431671
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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OIL THEFTS AND PIPELINE VANDALIZATION IN NIGERIA

OIL THEFTS AND PIPELINE VANDALIZATION IN NIGERIA

PATRICK EDOBOR IGBINOVIA

B.Sc.; M.A.; M.Sc.; M.P.A.; Ph.D.; JP Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Former Senior Research Advisor (Security and Strategy, SPDC), Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Benin, Benin City

Safari Books Ltd Ibadan

Published by Safari Books Ltd Ile Ori Detu 1, Shell Close Onireke, Ibadan. Email: [e-mail]

© Patrick Edobor Igbinovia

Publisher: Deputy Publisher:

Frist published 2014

Chief Joop Berkhout,OON George Berkhout

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ISBN: 978-978-8431-38-1

DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to the wonderful persons who gave value, worth and meaning to my life: My beautiful wife, Blessing A. Edobor-Igbinovia (JP) and the children: Aisosa, Zeme, Osato and Oyo; and my priceless sister, Mrs. Grace O. E. Ojumu, the first Nigerian Occupational Therapist.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I am profoundly grateful to Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) for their sabbatical appointment and placement asSenior Security Advisor on Security and Strategy which made the research for this book possible. I also acknowledge and appreciate TETFUND, University of Benin and its University Research and Publications Committee (URPC) for their support. I am also immensely grateful to Prof. A.E. Davies, former Head, Department of Political Science, University of Ilorin for reading and making useful suggestions on the manuscript; and to Robert Bing, my colleague and pal at the School of Criminolog y and Criminal Justice, The Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA; Chair and Professor, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas, USA; Prof. I.O. Taiwo, Director-General of the Nigerian Institute for Social and Economic Research (NISER), Ibadan, Nigeria, for helping to write the forewords to the book and to Mr. and Mrs. Ikuero Osabuohien Ikponmwosa for making their friendship and home available to me during my research sabbatical with SPDC. While I am highly indebted to all these persons for their efforts, I am, however, wholly, fully and solely responsible for the contents and views expressed and espoused in this book. May God bless you all.

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PREFACE

th Nigeria is the largest oil producer in Africa and the 6 oil- producing country in the world and the eleventh exporter of oil in the world, shipping nearly 3 million barrels a day. The mainstay of the country’s economy is oil, contributing about 90% of the nation’s foreign exchange earnings, 95% of Nigeria’s export earnings and 25% of the Gross Domestic Products; and 65% of its budgetary revenue. Consequently, oil is Nigeria’s main source of revenue: it accounts for 80% of its revenue base making it the most important revenue- e a r n e r. T h e N i ge r i a n e con o my i s de p e nde n t o n t h e exploitation of oil and the country’s future is very much tied to crude oil production. However, with an estimated population of about 160 million people, Nigeria has been plagued with widespread and unprecedented pipeline vandalization and the closely associated crime of oil theft or bunkering of crude oil incidents which have been taking a heavy toil on the nation’s economy, revenue and development efforts. This has made Nigeria the spoilt child and laughing stock of the international community. To compound the unending, unabating and rising incidence of oil theft and its twin companion of pipeline vandalization, it appears that the menace are exclusive and purely Nigeria phenomena as these forms of crimes hardly occur in other parts of the world. Indeed, Nigeria is the only country in the world experiencing the disgraceful and despicable criminality.

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