13 Green Criminology in the Niger Delta of Nigeria:

Examples would include the Indigene-settler conflicts in Plateau and Kaduna states, the activities of Boko Haram, farmer-herdsmen issues, and agitation about resources and forms of militancy in the Niger Delta (in particular, the Ogoni and the Ijaw ethnic groups). [...] However, the deficiency to note is that, in so much of the work that has been done in calling attention to environmental harm, the major gap identified within the context of the Niger Delta is the absence of affected women’s voices. [...] This signifies that, in the Niger Delta, the strong culture of women being at the forefront of exploring the environment in order to meet the needs of the family has been disrupted radically. [...] But the stakeholders, the key people that have the power and the influence to ensure that actions are being taken in the interests of the people are not doing anything. [...] One of the interviewees Madam B asked: Now that the multinational oil companies are divesting and moving offshore, what happens to the polluted environment they leave behind, if the environment is left without recovery? What happens to the future of the women? These questions call for more attention to the destruction of the environment through activities of extractive industries in resource produ.