The Nexus between Insurgency, Environment and Agricultural Livelihoods in Nigeria

The specific by the government to improve the security of the objectives of the study are to (i) review the citizens, the level of insecurity in the country is theoretical linkages between environment, still high. [...] M uzan reported that the major complaint was against the exploitation of the oil and gas It is noteworthy that the causative factors in this resources of the Niger Delta by both the Federal insurgency are still very much visible in the and regional governments in total disregard of entire Niger Delta region (Muzam, 2014), the citizens of the area. [...] At the height decidedly unfocused as to who the target should of the Niger Delta insurgency, some of the be, whether it should focus on the oil groups had a very sophisticated arsenal that companies, the government, or the chieftains would have been the boast of any group in the and their middlemen as the primary culprits in history of guerilla warfare (Muzam, 2014). [...] This the perceived scheme of denials of benefits from period also saw the emergence of the group oil operations and from the associated injuries to known as the Movement for the Emancipation the people and their environment. [...] Muzam, (2014) noted that the war was creeks of Ondo State in the west, to the mouth centred on who should control the oil benefits of the Cross River in the extreme east of coming to the region.