Poverty in Oil Rich Niger Delta


	Poverty in Oil Rich Niger Delta

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11-20-2007 5:14 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/41e34780-85ea-40f9-8a1a-cff8b195063f/39AC246B-BBED-438C-83E0-0AAF4EDE3F88/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/7195DC11-12DC-41AC-B9A3-0C9540C665D1.htm" href="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/7195DC11-12DC-41AC-B9A3-0C9540C665D1.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">english.aljazeera.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/7195DC11-12DC-41AC-B9A3-0C9540C665D1.htm"><P><FONT size="2">More than 50,000 barrels of oil a day are produced in the Niger Delta - that is hundreds of thousands of US dollars - yet residents remain desperately poor.<FONT size="2"><BR /> <BR />As many as 60,000 people live literally on top of this multi-billion dollar industry, but many are unemployed and their lives consist of guns, alcohol abuse and violent crime. </FONT>Tension on the island are rising. </FONT></p> <P><FONT size="2">King Justus Henry Dappa, a community leader, says he is frustrated by the lack of social and economic progress in Niger Delta, despite oil production.</FONT></p> <P><FONT size="2"><FONT size="2"><DIV>"If the federal government listens to our cry, and comes in, there will not be any more kidnappings," he says. "The youths will get work, they will be happy, and then everything will calm down."</DIV></FONT></FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/7195DC11-12DC-41AC-B9A3-0C9540C665D1.htm">"Gone are the days when ... we just come to the waterside and there are fishes everywhere."</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/7195DC11-12DC-41AC-B9A3-0C9540C665D1.htm"><FONT size="2">about four oil spills in the area every year. If this happened anywhere else, it would cause international outcry - but in the Niger Delta, it goes unnoticed, they say. </FONT><FONT size="2"> </FONT></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/39AC246B-BBED-438C-83E0-0AAF4EDE3F88/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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