Oil Governance in Nigeria and Maritime Security In the Gulf of Guinea, 2010-2014

Filed in Political Science Project Topics by on October 26, 2020

Oil Governance in Nigeria and Maritime Security In the Gulf of Guinea, 2010-2014.

ABSTRACT

This study examined the relationship between the contradictions of rentier oil governance in Nigeria and their implications for maritime security in the Gulf of Guinea (GoG). Specifically, the study examined the effect of the security leakages in the management of oil resources in Nigeria;

The proliferation of armed groups’ protests over mismanagement of oil rent in Nigeria; as well as the margin of oil revenue in relation to fishing in Nigeria, on the sustenance of illegal oil trade, the rise of illicit arms trade and use; and the ineffective control of Illegal,

Unreported and Unregulated fishing in the Gulf of Guinea respectively. Thus, the central questions of this study are:

Do security leakages in the management of oil resources in Nigeria account for the sustenance of illegal oil trade in the Gulf of Guinea?

Does the proliferation of violent oil rent protests in Nigeria lead to the rise of illicit arms trade and use in the Gulf of Guinea?

Was the prioritization of oil revenue in Nigeria implicated in the ineffective control of Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated fishing in the Gulf of Guinea?

The theory of the Rentier state was adopted as our framework of analysis and data was gathered through the documentary method of data collection. Our data analysis was based on qualitative descriptive analysis and the ex-post facto research design was adopted.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Title Page – – – – – – – – – – i
Approval Page- – – – – – – – – – ii
Dedication – – – – – – – – – – iii
Acknowledgements – – – – – – – – – iv
Table of Contents – – – – – – – – – vi
List of Tables – – – – – – – – – – viii
List of Abbreviations – – – – – – – – – xi
Abstract – – – – – – – – – – xiii

Chapter One: Introduction
1.1 Background of the Study – – – – – – – 1
1.2 Statement of the Problem – – – – – – – 6
1.3 Objectives of the Study – – – – – – – 10
1.4 Significance of the Study – – – – – – – 11

Chapter Two: Literature Review
2.1 Security Leakages in the Management of Oil Resources and
Illegal Oil Trade- – – – – – – – – 12
2.2 Violent Oil Rent Protests and Illicit Arms Trade and Use- – – 20
2.3 Prioritization of Oil Revenue and the Control of Illegal Fishing- – – 28
2.4 Gap in the Literature – – – – – – – – 35

Chapter Three: Methodology
3.1 Theoretical Framework – – – – – – – 39
3.2 Hypotheses – – – – – – – – – 44
3.3 Research Design – – – – – – – – 45
3.4 Methods of Data Collection – – – – – – – 48
3.5 Methods of Data Analysis – – – – – – – 50
3.6 Logical Data Framework – – – – – – – 51

Chapter Four: Security Leakages in the Management of Oil Resources in Nigeria and Illegal Oil Trade in the Gulf of Guinea
4.1 Involvement of Nigerian Oil Marketers in Illegal Oil Diversion and
Oil Black Market Sale in the GoG – – – – – – 54
4.2 Privatization of Security Management in the Nigerian Oil Industry
and Oil Piracy in the GoG – – – – – – – 62
4.3 Complicity of Nigerian Security Agents in Oil-Related Crimes and
the Illegal Operations of Commercial Oil Vessels in the GoG – – 73

Chapter Five: Violent Oil Rent Protests in Nigeria and Illicit Arms Trade and Use in the Gulf of Guinea
5.1 Oil Patronage Conflict in Nigeria and the Rise of Illegal Transborder
Sale of Arms in the GoG – – – – – – – 83
5.2 Citizens’ Protests against Oil Wealth Deprivation in Nigeria and
Proliferation of Illicit Arms’ Use in the GoG – – – – 115
5.3 State Repression of Oil Rent Protests in Nigeria and Escalation of
Transnational Crimes in the GoG – – – – – – 122

Chapter Six: Prioritization of Oil Revenue in Nigeria and Control of Illegal Fishing in the Gulf of Guinea
6.1 Excessive Reliance on oil Revenue in Nigeria and the Rise of Illegitimate
Fish Trade in the GoG – – – – – – – 132
6.2 Oil Investment in Nigeria and Administrative Lapses in the Regulation
of Fishing in the GoG – – – – – – – – 139

Chapter Seven: Summary, Conclusion and Recommendations
7.1 Summary – – – – – – – – – 145
7.2 Conclusion – – – – – – – – – 147
7.3 Recommendations – – – – – – – – 150
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INTRODUCTION

  • Background of the Study

Over the past two decades, there has been a surge in international concerns about maritime safety and security, with particular attention to the danger that insecurity on the seas pose to global commerce, peace and stability (Ukeje & Mvomo-Ela, 2013).

This increased interest has, in turn, coalesced around the need to reflect upon and critically rethink conventional wisdom as it relates to the geopolitics of the seas, and to understand how such feeds into existing policies and actions at the national, regional, continental and global levels.

Within the past decade, the Gulf of Guinea (GoG) has become one of the most dangerous maritime areas in the world.

According to the Crisis Group report of 2012, maritime insecurity is a regional problem that is compromising the development of this strategic economic area and threatening maritime trade in the short term and the stability of coastal states in the long term.

The GoG is a vast, diverse and highly important region.It constitutes about 16 countries that are strung along roughly 6,000 kilometres of unbroken coastline.

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