CONFLICT AND INSTABILITY IN THE NIGER DELTA::THE WARRI CASE
by T.A. Imobighe, Celestin O. Bassey, Judith Burdin Asuni
Price: N1200
Product Code: 1274388256
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Number of Pages: 235
Binding: Paper Back
Publisher: Spectrum
ISBN: 9780293701
ISSN: 9789780293703
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Summary: The incessant conflict and confrontation which have characterized the relationship between three culturally contiguous ethnic groups in the Niger delta; ijaw, urhobo and itsekiri, and for which inestimable losses in human and material resources have been incurred, is the subject matter of this book-conflict and instability in the Niger delta: the warri case.
The vexed and volatile issues of who owns warri-land [settler-indigene question] and the oil-fields-who gets the royalties; the alleged cultural domination and over lordship of the itsekiri; the issue of arbitrary/discriminatory local government creations; the jurisdiction of the authority of the olu of warri; discrimination in employment even in federal institutions and oil companies, among others, constitution the kernel of the intractable conflict. Though predating colonial rule, it is a conflict that was actually exacerbated by that administration’s policy of “divide and rule” in the delta province, favoring one party against the others.
The effort of the academic association peace works (AAPW) is a holistic approach which digs deep; involve the three ethnic gladiators in a peace process aimed at unraveling the endemic conflict, and with far-reaching proposals for peaceful co-existence. To AAWP, if the conflictual communities can swallow their pride and irredentist tendencies and genuinely agree to live side by side in warri, there would be peace; bearing in mind that only peace can build, crisis rather destroys.