A lega(l)cy unfulfilled: Reflections of the Wiwa-led MOSOP and the localisation of human rights

Ako, Rhuks

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“…This was amplified using a range of counter-accounts produced by iaNGOs (Amnesty International, 2009, 2015aChristian Aid, 2004; Friends of the Earth, 2011; UNEP, 2011). The reaction to the Ogoni 9 execution escalated what was a regional partisan campaign into a series of high profile international campaigns for; human rights; greater accountability; environmental protection; social justice; corporate responsibility; effective governance; and sustainable development (Ako, 2015;Ako and Ekhator, 2016;Baumuller et al, 2011;Conway, 2010;Gray and Gray, 2011;Ruggie, 2013). 9 Since the 1990s different aspects of the governance and actions of the oil industry in the Niger Delta have been subject to challenge and problematisation through campaigns involving counter-accounts.…”

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“…Their engagement tactics were political, non-violent and included counter accounts (Ako, 2015;Social Action, 2014). MOSOPs' leaders looked to build regional, national and international coalitions of support through peaceful methods (Demirel- Pegg and Pegg, 2015;Rowell et al, 2005).…”

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“…The first examples of counter accounts were observed in campaign by the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) against Shell Petroleum Development Corporation (SPDC) in the 1990s (Ako, 2015;Amnesty International, 2009;Senewo, 2015;Social Action, 2014). MOSOP's protest was initiated after 35 years of pollution of the Ogoni people's air, land and water.…”

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International advocacy NGOs, counter accounting, accountability and engagement

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Yonekura

2017

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“…Within the EITI system the compromise beween state, corporations and civil society ( Arond et al., 2019 ; Sovacool et al., 2016 ) is heralded as the basis for arriving at disclosure practice. In recent years Extractive Industries and Society has hosted important fora on the legacy of Ken Saro Wiwa ( Ako, 2015 ; Pegg, 2015 ) and the Niger Deltan struggles ( Naanen 2019 ; Senewo, 2015 ) and for broader demobilization or fragmentation of movements. Policy-directed work has considered the implications of the enactment of the EITI at the international scale for institutional change.…”

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Beyond transparency: A consideration of extraction's full costs

Zalik

Osuoka

2020

The Extractive Industries and Society

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Highlights This special section ‘Beyond Transparency: rethinking the government of Extraction’ examines the relationship between international transparency discourse in the extractive sector, including as implemented through specific domestic protocols, and the persistent association of unaccountable government, socioeconomic injustice and ongoing environmental hazards associated with extractive firms and their operations. Contributors probe how transparency practices have been applied to oil and extractive sector ‘host states’ in the global South, in particular Nigeria, while the rent-seeking practices transparency discourse seeks to expose are rarely tied to corporate malfeasance in the North. Inspired by Nnimmo Bassey's contribution to this special section, we employ this introduction to consider global transparency discourse and regulatory regimes in the light of the full cost of extraction. Since the turn of the millennium attention to extraction's full costs have been largely overshadowed in policy discourse via global transparency regimes, notably The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative.

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“…Furthermore, Nigerian security forces have repeatedly targeted the protests with repression, with this repression escalating during the 1990s into fatal violence culminating in the deaths of hundreds of people. Human rights organisations have repeatedly accused Shell of having criminal liability for these events, and since the 1990s the company has been the object of three lawsuits relating to complicity in human rights abuses against the Ogoni people (see Ako 2015;Pegg 2015;CCR 2018;CCR 2019).…”

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Spending blood for oil in Nigeria: a frame analysis of Shell’s neutralisation of acts that led to corporate-initiated state crime

Weswasi¹

2019

NTfK

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The environmental impact of Shell Oil Company in Nigeria has resulted in largescale protests. Despite their peaceful nature, these protests have been met with lethal violence by the Nigerian security forces. Accusations have been levelled against Shell for liability for human rights violations, but the company has denied responsibility. Previously confidential correspondence between Shell and Nigerian officials has shown that the company repeatedly persuaded security personnel to act against protesters. The current article examines how Shell framed its desire for the Nigerian state to suppress protests against the company. It does this by analysing published documents within Stanley Cohen’s (1993) theoretical framework regarding the neutralisation of criminal acts – most notably the neutralisation technique of appealing to higher loyalties. This is a technique adopted by companies when they use the greater good as a rationale for minimising their responsibility for harmful acts. The correspondence between Shell and Nigerian officials shows that Shell continuously urged Nigerian officials to take action by referring to the company’s contribution to economic and social development in the region, even after their calls for action has been shown to result in human rights abuses. In describing these rationales, the article highlights a case of corporate-initiated state crime, a form of crime that involves corporations inducing state actors to commit harmful acts.

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A lega(l)cy unfulfilled: Reflections of the Wiwa-led MOSOP and the localisation of human rights

Cited by 9 publications

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International advocacy NGOs, counter accounting, accountability and engagement

International advocacy NGOs, counter accounting, accountability and engagement

Beyond transparency: A consideration of extraction's full costs

Spending blood for oil in Nigeria: a frame analysis of Shell’s neutralisation of acts that led to corporate-initiated state crime

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