Assignment on how have oil disputes in Bayelsa plus the terror group Boko Haram both caused Nigeria to split?

Oil Crisis in Nigeria of how have oil disputes in Bayelsa plus the terror group

            Many high-level government officials in Nigeria have faced a lot of corruption charges related to the oil revenues in total around 22 trillion dollars in the last seventeen years. The Nigerian state process the oil in Bayelsa state as well as it has marked the officials with high-level corruption into the oil revenue. Most significantly, the Nigerian state was also facing several conflicts between multinational oil corporation, government as well as the state people. The Bayelsa state is one of the nine states in the Niger Delta of Nigeria with abundant deposits of crude oil. The federal government collects the revenue of oil that constitutes the Nigerian government revenue’ bulk, as well as it is shared among the state of the federation (Obah-Akpowoghaha, 2013).

            Furthermore, the political and ethnic unrest continued during the 90s despite the return to democracy as well as the Obasanjo government election in 1999. The violence among ethnic groups, causing the militarization of the whole region, the police forces, military of Nigeria as well as notable mobile police have been fueled by the struggle for oil. By discouraging foreign investment in new power generation plants in this region, the violence has also contributed to the ongoing supply of energy crisis of Nigeria. Furthermore, it has also been allocated by the federal government 13 percent derivation of the state, of excess crude, as well as the share allocations of crude oil revenue, had the worth of million dollars at that time. These portions are continually questioned by numerous nearby partners of the oil and non-oil delivering states (Oyefusi, 2007).

            This huge measure of petroleum dollars has had little impact on the inescapable joblessness, destitution, natural corruption, and fierce clashes in the Niger Delta and explicitly in Bayelsa State. The state observers proceeded with clashes. I contend that individuals' views of defilement make and additionally propagate clashes in Bayelsa State. It is also determined that the corruption in the crude oil had created as well as continued the conflicts’ host plus conflicts in the intercommunity, conflicts among the military task force, multinational oil corporations, host communities, as well as militants. These were the factors which are created huge conflicts in all of the states of Nigeria and cut from the other world and countries (Ibekwe, 2014).

Conflict of Boko Haram in Nigeria

            The Boko Haram insurgency was made and started in 2009 at the time of the jihadist group Boko Haram did start the armor rebellion against the Nigerian government. The conflict between the Nigerian government and Boko Haram came into form in the sense of bigger problems among Christian and the Muslim communities of Nigeria, as well as the main aim of the Boko Haram group was to make Nigeria an Islamic state where no Christian will live. They were creating terror in people by kidnapping people and the most dangerous thing of this group was that they were hired many youngsters in the force who had the authority to kill any person in the state. Furthermore, the start of the Boko Haram was failed by the government of Nigeria because they killed the leader of this group named “Mohammad Yusuf”. To achieve the primacy between the insurgents, it was managed by rebel commander Abubakar Shekau, and the movement fractured consequently within the group autonomously and started insurgency. Challenging by the internal opposite like Abu Usmatul al Ansari’s Salafist fraction conservatively. Shekau did become defector leader of insurgency as well as he kept the different type of fractions of Boko Haram from fighting each other instead of focusing on the Nigerian government. The extreme brutality and explicit targeting of civilians marked the tactics of Shekau. The Boko Haram was supported and funded by other jihadi organizations such as Al-Shabaab and al-Qaeda. To seize the large areas in northern Nigerian, the Boko haram insurgents did become very aggressive after a few years of fighting (Paden, 2015).

            When they were more aggressive after few years of fighting, the Boko haram started to spread terror into the neighbor area at the same time, and the most infected area because of this fight and terror were Chad, Cameroon as well as Niger. Although, the spreading of terror into the neighboring areas created the major conflict in Nigeria.  Meanwhile, the leader of did attempt to bring more improvements into his standing among jihadi organizations through his tactics international. The terrorist group became the world’s most dangerous as well as deadliest terrorism group into the world that constantly fights against the government but mostly spreading terror in the communities by kidnapping people as well as by killing them. Due to the heavy fights as well as heavy conflicts with the government and the people of society, Boko Haram causes Nigeria to split (Adebayo, 2014).

References of how have oil disputes in Bayelsa plus the terror group

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Paden, J. (2015). Religion and Conflict in Nigeria. Washington DC, USA US Institute of Peace, , 359.