FISCAL FEDERALISM AND THE DELTA QUESTION: PROSPECT FOR RESOURCE CONTROL IN NIGERIA
FISCAL FEDERALISM AND THE DELTA QUESTION: PROSPECT FOR RESOURCE CONTROL IN NIGERIA

Summary/Abstract: Resentment over resource control has frequently turned into militancy and violence in Nigeria's Niger Delta. Even if the demand is based on the transfer of ownership, management, and control of the processes of extracting crude oil, which is abundant in the area, the agitators are unaware of the exact parameters of the demand. Nigeria's many possibilities for resource control were examined in this study. In particular, it argued that constitutional modifications, the full repeal of the onshore/offshore dichotomy abrogation statute, and other actions may achieve resource control. The study adopted the historical research design and the qualitative method of data analysis. It is anchored on the frustration aggression theory and recommends that; lawmakers and the government should reorganize the economy so that the communities who produce oil have authority over their resources. In addition, restructuring should be done to return these oil-producing villages to the 1953– 1959 period, when they received 100% of the earnings instead of the current 13%. Two examples of legislation that should be abolished because they give the federal government authority over the entire nation are the Petroleum Act and the Territory Use Act.

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