Description
The core Niger Delta, the centre of the crisis in Nigeria, is basically different in its physical features and terrain, from hinterland Nigeria with peculiar developmental challenges. This factor attracted the attention of the Willink Commission that described the core Niger Delta poor, backward and neglected at the eve of independence in 1960. The monumental challenges confronting the Niger Delta spiralled and increased geometrically after independence coalescing into the avoidable Niger Delta crisis that has attracted global attention. Several factors, as mentioned in this book, led to the Niger Delta crisis, which had been undermined, and at times aggravated by the Nigerian State since independence.
The Niger Delta problems triggered off endo-nationalistic responses from the Niger Deltans culminating in Boro’s Twelve Day Revolution, Ken Saro-Wiwa led Ogoni MOSSP Struggle for justice and equity, the Kaiama Declaration etc.
Instead of holistically solving and responding to the problems of the Niger Delta, political subjugation and military highhandedness and autocracy, had always been the response to the genuine agitation of the Niger Deltans, as exemplified in the hanging of Ken Saro-Wiwa.
This book, therefore, is an intellectual approach analysing the crisis and it offers holistic solution to the Niger Delta crisis.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
The author is a legal practitioner and a prolific writer. He is an alumnus of three Nigerian universities and the Nigerian Law School, Lagos.
Other books written by the author are — The South-South Presidency — A Right Not Negotiable, The Niger Delta Crisis Beyond Employment and Physical Development: The Critical Issues Involved.
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