Redressing harmful environmental practices in the Nigerian petroleum industry through the criminal justice approach

Brown, Cleverline; Okogbule, Nlerum S.

doi:10.4314/jsdlp.v11i1.3

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“…There are a plethora of such laws and agencies for enforcement in Nigeria. First and foremost, the Fagbohun ,2013;Amokaye,2004;Okorodudu, 1999;Oluduro, 2019;Brown & Okogbule, 2020). Any contravention of the above outlined and many other laws and regulations amount to violation, hence environment crime.…”

Section: Environmental Crime and Human Security: Establishing The Nexusmentioning

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State-Corporate environmental crime and human security in the Niger Delta, Nigeria

Barigbon

2023

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Admittedly, environmental crime or green criminology as sub-filed or a separate section of legal jurisprudence is struggling to evolve in Nigeria. This is particularly so in the light of lax legislation regulating the Nigeria oil industry. This paper advanced the argument that all human acts such as oil spills, gas flaring and other forms of environmental degradation in contravention of existing environmental legislation amount to environmental violence; and constitute environmental crime; which crime is increasing unabated in the Nigeria Delta region of Nigeria, with huge human security implications. The environment isthe life and sustainer of humanity, unfortunately man has become a destroyer instead of a protector and replenisher of the environment on account of the unsustainable drive for capital accumulation for industrialization and development. The outcomes of the activities associated with industrialization and development instead of ameliorating has rather deepened the poverty and misery of the Niger Delta. The acts of ecocide and genocide committed by the Multinational Oil Corporations with the tacit connivance Nigerian state had continuously threatened human security, without commensurable commitments to halting the impending Armageddon. The argument of this paper is guided by resource curse theory. Data were purely qualitative, and generated from secondary sources and subjected to content analysis. The fundamental finding of this paper is that the trouble with environmental governance in Nigeria is not the want of regulations, albeit weak but the weak extractive and regulatory capacity of the Nigeria state to enforce compliance. The paper recommends very strongly that the Nigerian state must assert its stateness, effectively perform its regulatory roles, and criminalize all acts of environment violations.

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Section: Environmental Crime and Human Security: Establishing The Nexusmentioning

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State-Corporate environmental crime and human security in the Niger Delta, Nigeria

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2023

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“…This is to extent of codifying environmental violation as a crime and to the extent of criminalizing corporate offenders. As Brown and Okogbule (2020) observed, environmental violation (crime) in Nigeria and many part of the global south is still in the bowel of civil litigation with paltry and ridiculous monetary sanctions as the highest consequences. This has not amounted to due deterrence.…”

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State-corporate environmental crime and human security in the Niger Delta, Nigeria

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2022

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This theoretical paper advanced the argument that all human acts such as oil spills, gas flaring and other forms of environmental degradation in contravention of existing environmental legislation amount to environmental violence; and constitute environmental crime within the context of this paper. Environmental crime in the Nigeria Delta is increasing unabated and huge implication of human security. The environment is life and sustainer of humanity both present and future. But man has become a destroyer instead of a protector and replenisher of the environment on account of the unsustainable drive for capital accumulation for industrialization and development. The outcomes have deepened the poverty and misery of the Niger Delta people instead of ameliorating them. The acts of ecocide and genocide committed by the Multinational Oil Corporations with the tacit connivance Nigerian state had continuously threatened human security, without commensurable commitments to halting the impending Armageddon. The argument of this paper is guided by resource curse, Dutch disease and state failure theories. Data used to advance this argument are purely qualitative and generated from secondary sources. They are subjected to content analysis. Admittedly, environmental crime or green criminology as sub-filed or a separate section of legal jurisprudence is struggling to evolve. Our finding is that the trouble with environmental governance in Nigeria is not the want of regulations, albeit weak, but the problem of enforcement. This implies that the bulk stops at the state. The state must assert its stateness, effectively perform it s regulatory roles, and place environment violation where they belong, as environmental crime.

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Redressing harmful environmental practices in the Nigerian petroleum industry through the criminal justice approach

Cited by 2 publications

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State-Corporate environmental crime and human security in the Niger Delta, Nigeria

State-Corporate environmental crime and human security in the Niger Delta, Nigeria

State-corporate environmental crime and human security in the Niger Delta, Nigeria

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