How are the nation’s oil blocks given out? Is it possible to allocate oil blocks to the oil-bearing states as compensation for environmental degradation and despoliation? In the oil multinationals in the country all the important job positions are occupied by persons from outside the region. Power is therefore used to perpetrate and perpetuate official oppression by awarding oil blocks to powerful and influential people. The businessmen with the capacity to own and control oil blocks are not favoured in the largesse distribution.

Source: The Guardian February 11, 2019 03:56 UTC