Globanisation often manifests in the movement of goods and services. The driving geopolitical forces are sometimes hidden because the faces that are visible are the international financial institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Funds.
This is why the Structural Adjustment Programmes of the 1980s and the so-called Poverty Reduction Strategy… This is why the Structural Adjustment Programmes of the 1980s and the so-called Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers are seen as the sins of the IMF and the WB whereas there are political superstructures behind these entities.
According to the first African to win the Nobel Peace Prize for environmental activism, the late Wangari Maathai, “What we’ve learned in Kenya—the symbiotic relationship between the sustainable management of natural resources and democratic governance—is also relevant globally. Indeed, many local and international wars, like those in West and Central Africa and the Middle East, continue to be fought over resources.
The divestment moves has been shrouded in such secrecy and it appears even agencies of government are either not respected with regard to the process or are simply ignored. In all cases communities are utterly ignored.It is interesting that the same transnational polluters are closely advising the government on issues that have implications for environmental quality in Nigeria.
The UNEP report had highlighted that Ogoniland is highly polluted and that oil spills were never adequately cleaned up. With spills accumulated over the years, water bodies have been contaminated, including ground water having benzene, a carcinogen, up to 900 times above World Health Organisation standards.
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