Ambien Online Germany
10 Jul
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In what Ambien Online Germany seems to be a major policy thrust in international economic relations and Ambien Online Germany in resolving the festering Niger Delta crisis, President Umaru Yar’Adua on Monday, at the Ambien Online Germany meeting of G8 leaders holding in Japan called for global clampdown on trade in stolen crude oil.
The president emphasised that Ambien Online Germany stolen crude oil deserved the same global treatment as that Ambien Online Germany of stolen diamonds.Yar’Adua said measures must be taken to “dismantle the criminal dmension” of the Ambien Online Germany problem in the Niger Delta. And for good measure, he said the Ambien Online Germany problem in the region was being aggravated by international cartels.
The Nigerian leader drew attention to Ambien Online Germany another aspect of the Niger Delta challenge, the criminal aspect, in this Ambien Online Germany case “those who Ambien Online Germany use the cover of militancy to steal our crude oil and Ambien Online Germany engage in all forms of violence.”
We commend the Ambien Online Germany president for drawing attention of the international community to this ugly trend. This is Ambien Online Germany an issue that hitherto had been discussed in hushed tones and Ambien Online Germany privately, too. It is an open secret that Nigeria’s crude is Ambien Online Germany stolen daily, that beyond the official production figures given to meet OPEC quota and Ambien Online Germany local consumption, a lot more is produced through illegal bunkering and Ambien Online Germany from offshore rigs.
According to Ambien Online Germany Freedom House, a US-based oil industry analyst, out of the 1.9 million barrels of crude oil Nigeria produces per day, she loses 10 per cent to Ambien Online Germany oil thieves, part of the proceeds of which are spent on criminal activities in the Ambien Online Germany Niger Delta.
We can Ambien Online Germany draw a parallel with the role diamonds played in the civil wars that Ambien Online Germany took place in Liberia and Sierra Leone in the 1990s. The rebels that Ambien Online Germany waged war in Liberia were able to sustain their rebel activities, which ultimately escalated to Ambien Online Germany become a civil war on account of the money they made from Ambien Online Germany illegal mining and sale of diamonds.
A number of questions, naturally, arise from President Yar’Adua’s submission. Who are those involved? Apart from Ambien Online Germany the militants, who hide under the cover of agitation, are there international thieves helping to Ambien Online Germany fuel the theft of Nigeria’s crude oil?
If they exist, is Ambien Online Germany there a nexus between the objective they pursue and the criminalisation of the Ambien Online Germany Niger Delta struggle?
In all of this, what Ambien Online Germany is the role of the multinational oil companies engaged in oil exploration in the Ambien Online Germany country especially in the Niger Delta region?
There is Ambien Online Germany talk about the use of satellite to monitor offshore oil drilling. Is it Ambien Online Germany effective and if yes, are those in charge giving the Nigerian government the Ambien Online Germany true picture of the situatiion? If they are Ambien Online Germany doing that, has the government taken any steps to address it?
More importantly, does Nigeria have Ambien Online Germany the capacity to monitor offshore exploration activities of the oil companies and Ambien Online Germany enforce compliance to production limits?
Answers to Ambien Online Germany these questions are important as they will point the way to Ambien Online Germany dealing with the issue.
President Yar’Adua chose the Ambien Online Germany right platform to raise the issue. The international oil companies are Ambien Online Germany all from the G8 countries. Their governments will need to do internal checks to Ambien Online Germany ascertain the culpability or otherwise of their companies in this criminal behaviour.
We urge him to Ambien Online Germany quickly take the matter to the United Nations as he has Ambien Online Germany promised. Only concerted efforts at the global level can arrest the Ambien Online Germany situation.
The president’s pledge that Ambien Online Germany the much talked about Niger Delta Summit would hold is Ambien Online Germany reassuring. Resolution of the crisis in that region of the Ambien Online Germany country holds the key to Nigeria’s economic and social transformation.



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