- Title: NIGERIA: Analyst disagree with president over oil-rich delta plans
- Date: 27th January 2006
- Summary: (BN17) LAGOS NIGERIA (JANUARY 26, 2006) (REUTERS) STREET SCENES (VARIOUS) TOTAL PETROL STATION (VARIOUS)
- Embargoed: 11th February 2006 12:00
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- Location: Nigeria
- Country: Nigeria
- Topics: Domestic Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA8TMB521LQNOROLXQW77TOBX7M
- Story Text: President Olusegun Obasanjo plans for the oil rich Niger Delta are questioned by some analysts. Speaking to Reuters Television Daniel Omoweh attributed the increase in the Niger Delta crisis to the faulty government policies that are detrimental to the people in the Delta region. "It is increasing because rather than those in authority responding to the issue of democratizing the natural resources they are centralizing it, there is the thinking that yes the oil is meant for all but there is the issue, those in the Niger Delta should have an access to it" The Niger Delta problem has been on the increase since the beginning of the year following the kidnapping of four foreign oil workers. Omoweh said factors that led to hostage-taking could lead to going to rob a bank which is a crime. "There's a thin line separating going to evade the premises of an oil company particularly going to rob a bank, that's criminal act. It is thinly distinct from hostage taken, thinly distinct in the sense that the factors that precipitated hostage taken is traceable to social crisis within the country, it is also traced in part to the nature of the state, when I mean the state am talking about the political leadership and the approach they have taken towards development, extracting mineral resources, governance and economic policies" he said.
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