The Oil Thieves of Nigeria

Gangs are now stealing directly from the pipelines in a semi-professional manner in addition of the continued violence as there has been for such a long time.

Re: The Oil Thieves of Nigeria

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Post by boeingUH60 » Fri, Feb 03, 2023, 8:19 AM UTC

A very long and interesting read…a true story of how incessant corruption and incompetence is making my country fall apart daily…but sure, people still continue to vote in the corrupt and inept leaders.

I honestly think people largely get what they deserve. We’ve decided to shun competence and embrace corruption…no surprise we’re seeing the results in a failed economy.

Really hope the Labour Party candidate wins the upcoming Presidential election, or else we’re f**ed. Even if that happens, there’s still a massive uphill battle because corruption is embedded from top to bottom.

Re: The Oil Thieves of Nigeria

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Post by IntelMiner » Fri, Feb 03, 2023, 8:51 AM UTC

aliswe wrote: post #2

Aren't the real oil thieves of Nigeria the state?

Why should the natural resources of a nation belong to anyone else?

Are the Australian government "thieves" for taxing Rio Tinto?

Re: The Oil Thieves of Nigeria

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Post by defrost » Fri, Feb 03, 2023, 8:59 AM UTC

IntelMiner wrote: post #6

aliswe wrote: post #2

Aren't the real oil thieves of Nigeria the state?

Why should the natural resources of a nation belong to anyone else? Are the Australian government "thieves" for taxing Rio Tinto?

The distinctions are in the details;

ideally the Australian Government is representative and working on behalf of the overwhelming majority of Australians putting revenues in long term investment funds for security and into public infrastructure that benefits the health, security and economic well being of the nation.

This is not always the case for (or indeed any of the 190+ countries about the globe).

Re: The Oil Thieves of Nigeria

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Post by AndyMcConachie » Fri, Feb 03, 2023, 9:31 AM UTC

I remember reading in the Wikileaks cables that came from Chelsea Manning the comments of Shell's country manager in Nigeria. They bragged that Shell ran Nigeria and that it's government was a farce. I remember reading the country manager for Shell literally bragging about how that oil company basically owned Nigeria.

The Americans help of course. This whole Africom nonsense that the Americans have been pushing lately is about making sure that companies like British Shell continue to 'own' African countries.

Re: The Oil Thieves of Nigeria

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Post by 2Gkashmiri » Fri, Feb 03, 2023, 10:06 AM UTC

boeingUH60 wrote: post #5

A very long and interesting read…a true story of how incessant corruption and incompetence is making my country fall apart daily…but sure, people still continue to vote in the corrupt and inept leaders. I honestly think people largely get what they deserve. We’ve decided to shun competence and embrace corruption…no surprise we’re seeing the results in a failed economy. Really hope the Labour Party candidate wins the…

> honestly think people largely get what they deserve.

>but sure, people still continue to vote in the corrupt and inept leaders.

i live in a military state so i don't see much of "democracy". Many years ago, 1986 to be exact, people came out and there was a grassroots level movement for "rights" and people did lots of campaigning and the whole exercise of "elections" but the union government saw that as an attack on their iron grip and the elections were rigged.

Since then, we've had elections in the last 20 odd years but EVERYONE in the elections process is inept and corrupt and a "paid shill". it really doesn't matter who we vote (we don't cast votes for that reason) because it is a bad choice vs bad choice.

No one wants to "stand up" because the whole system locally and the overlords in the union government do NOT allow anyone who would threaten their control and their control means these corrupt people should remain in power.

we've all but given up on this whole thing so yeah. It gets tiring.

>We’ve decided to shun competence and embrace corruption…no surprise we’re seeing the results in a failed economy.

we have only bad options so it is a pointless exercise "choosing between them" so we decide to forgo the whole sham exercise.

well, that is just me so take whatever you can from this

Re: The Oil Thieves of Nigeria

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Post by seu » Fri, Feb 03, 2023, 10:23 AM UTC

sschueller wrote: post #4

Maybe the title should be "thieves are stealing from the thieves". Gangs are now stealing directly from the pipelines in a semi-professional manner in addition of the continued violence as there has been for such a long time.

Kind of my thought, too. With that title, I expected the article to be about the real thieves: Shell.