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ah ah, ah, hello, i'm come all santa maria, this is counting the cost on al jazeera. you look at the world of business and economics this week, nigeria to recessions, in 4 years, youth unemployment and insecurity getting worse. but there is one growth industry, kidnapping, cheap gun flooding into the country. nigeria efforts to close the border just have not worked. then there's the sabotaged best and environmental concerns driving

shell to fill up and walk away from its on shore nigerian oil operation. and even though countries around the gulf of guinea, a step security to find a ride in piracy, which country still was effected? our focus this week isn't timing. nigeria ah. so it's just the one topic this week and we've very conscious that there is a lot of negative news here. but the fact is, nigeria is dealing with a lot at the moment and it is all extremely consequential. nigeria, the economy is not in great shape, which means people look for alternatives. in some cases, extreme alternatives. you remember back in 2014, when the medicine group booker, harass my global headlines, were ducting nearly 300 school girls from the town of chia book. but it's still happening with an $800.00 students have been kidnapped in the north west of nigeria since december. and these are separate from the islamist insurgency, sent it on the northeast. here's some detail for you. this is from the armed

conflict location and event data project. all these kidnapping events. they've mapped out a just from the 1st 4 months of this year. that's after abduction and forced disappearance events more than doubled back in 2020. i had the different interpretation on this bond shot, the pink spike that you see in 2014. that's when the book on her, on she book kidnappings, happened, but 20202021. so a huge increase in abductions by communal militias. those are the ones in blue and more worryingly abduction events in the 1st 4 months of this year have overtaken the total for last year. so not properly dealing with insurgency and kidnappings as part of nigeria problem. but the government's failure to grow the economy to accommodate the population. i started making it worse. economy of 206000000 people fell into its 2nd recession in 4 years. and more than 60 percent of nigeria is working, age population is younger than 34. problem is unemployment for the 15 to 24 year

olds that was 53 percent in the 4th quarter. and it was 37 percent for people age between 25 and 34. so we're going to dive into a lot of issues this week. oil piracy, they're coming up later, but we're going to start with nigeria borders. the government shut them in 2019 to restrict the flow of illegal weapons that last month. president mohammed hurry surprised a lot of people when he said it had failed and was in fact feeling numerous conflicts. a report from math committee dressed in seminary town on the border between nigeria and been in this border market used to be a thriving commercial hub. it's now a shell of it. for myself, it was known for cheap imports like rice, automobiles, and garments. but not anymore. it's been 6 months since niger reopen, it's west and land border with beneath. but people like successful motorcycle dealer or more layer in was a. they having to find other work to make

a living. and he's not happy. you got my tell you, but i lose data the live. because if somebody comes in the 4 points, you get free passage of goods on people. but i've got to do, but i know that's what i thought opened. you may lose your qualified charlotte opening to some group of people in this country. he says, such favors have ruined small businesses like hiss and by extension have hard. they going to be head of a local trade is union agrees no will lead to market. there's little activities at the market. even the number of visitors reduced substantially with incomes wiped out. people stay at home and such. you can't get the taxes as you know, the residency, even passenger traffic is not what it used to be. the motor closure was meant to reduce the import of food. i can encourage domestic drug and stop the smuggling of firearms and leasing drugs into nigeria. but after one on have years, the president admits said more arms came in during the band,

raising questions as to what it actually achieved. border officials, however, he says the shut down was a resounding success as there is cross border cooperation and shedding of intelligence on smuggling. there were much of the jaws of her previous says, i would have found their way into the country through illegal order. they were also arrest of migrants which could have complicated to give this to show but enforcing the border or has made it more expensive to live in communities like semi people. he has a numerous checkpoint to hurting the transport of goods from across the border and other parts of an idea. the government reopen its borders just as the free trade agreement facilitated by the african union was coming into force. but months later,

business activity here has yet to pick up. nigerian government has accused its neighbors of endangering not only to cut on me, but also security, say weapons and ammunition still flow across the borders to feed it ever growing conflict. so let's piece all of this together. then the government's been fighting vocal. harassed in the northeast, there is an ongoing conflict between nomadic capital who is in crop farm is in central and southern regions. there is a separatist rebellion in the southeast. what is all of his doing to nigeria will here is sam a mattie to help us out. he's the director of the, a boucher school of social and political thoughts. and it's great to have you with us the overall insecure situation right across the country. how much of this, in your opinion actually rests with the government? or is this just such a big problem that it actually, it's almost too big to get a hold on? well, i think a lot of good government because on 2 levels, the national level, the failure,

did you have enough government periods of buddhism, of social and economic goods means that does steve competition for available resources. and then that is called bonded by this system of governors. that's fair, in which government trends to understand the importance of equity and justice in different and, you know, kind of consensus among what's going to lead and trust among so failure in the printer government to do the economy prices to, to create a sense of belonging to leave the road says of this are fictional, the sub level south is house outside of the country. we see that it will fail your target and government must in the local tuggle. alrighty, is it good? but also in the origin. i agreed, and essentially we real this connection between the people governance andy

from the state police and that's what give us credit. so primarily, this is the feel there is some suggestion that the failure to act against some of those community colleges which we talked about earlier is because the president is part of those is why do you put any weight into that? i think there is, i mean if you look before it became present present in 2015 in the previous election. he cannot produce the spokesperson for the loves and then get into power. he did not try to could says of even this. so the 50 you spoke against because i'm being killed as for, for dinner, say again, was the book on the books present time of the previous government. and so when it

comes to power, the image again, he did not have in the way you manage the crisis. depends on spoken, i guess for any hudson as well as i'm taking them. so don't something to do with this jelly in a sense, it's funny. i would degree what the policies and then probably saw so just a perhaps referred to that. yes. been maybe he didn't and of course that show you some degree in so just not just of the apple i, bob was a, was, was a prescribe before these rise of violence? well, probably participation. well, nobody to do meta man that adopt toward the for in the global terrorist audience of charlotte prescribed as dental groups

in niger, we have the niger in federation, the whole country. we also have a lot of different regions of there is again, some suggestion or talk about the idea that some regions could withdraw like side to be off for a region. i mean could, could they, could they survive on their own? i think you said when i meant, like talking about what suspicion so many years after the civil war. that was very good. i think there's also some degree of concessions causes that we are better to get. i would say that last 6 years i tend and says most so for example, were public, i guess it was really absent to out. it led me on joseph georgia. now seeing radicalization and in fact, bam is sometimes look, but the lips are lead us. when it is said bridge, it's close the man and i get the problem. the sink is credible. it's credible what

we need to do at the level of national leadership. that risk is obviously the country. the prisoners insist that this doctor is losses. gifts was most about good. public support for some of his good double showed his beaks, but it reminded me that i just, it is fallen. i guess i'm also pointed out i wasn't in my muscle. it's not so it's recreation showing everybody feels good because of it. and just but i guess to me, to forgot it these, they know they were due to the beast was the last game shifting and the government is go by the center. and chris sent you before we put this trust come, you know,

dancing credibility in us momentum. so let's move away from the security side of things and talk about the economy. you mentioned it before, the lack of jobs, while in fact the insecurity which creates the poor economic condition and the lack of jobs. how does nigeria turn that around? the population is growing. how do we get to a point where actually those youth in nigeria will have jobs and will have something to look forward to the lack of integral, punish nick, the failure of the government to increase your freedom. it will make freedom if it continues to get one of the worst double support actually research. and if i had a policy like minimal wage level rights, i'm just as so track to driving economic way. so does that. we're going to fill 7000000 people. didn't want to go, but the last couple of years just want permission all the media

to go to for what so here is the broad one is policy that need to go about to real it going to the target? you know, it got it where chris was watching it. job question is you can have job creation. when enough did it, did that she has world is not focusing on production. the cost sure. of course, to put up to the, to the country is what is driving because you can have an economy. we asked it's good to fit our lives revenue and they sent it to create revenue for so forth. but we are not a political kind of me and therefore job creation stimulating. i messed up on job creation will not be real except you're ever loading that part of the center and create incentive levels to get progress. good. what so probably of this could be a great extent mission,

which is what we call and the failure and momentum failure as in the last 20 years. but i want to heighten on that is a sam mattie with his thoughts on nigeria is economic future. sam, thank you so much for your time. thank you. the right, so security or a lack, all of it seems to be at the heart of a lot of nigeria issues and that extends to arguably it's most important sector. oil rolled out shell is that it wants to fill it's on shore oil facilities in nigeria because of all the sabotage and theft. shells already sold a handful of its own shore oil blocks in the niger delta over the past decade because of community unrest and continued attacks on its oil installations that come with its own subset of knock on effects if you like. in january show was ordered to pay damages to farmers off to an appeals court in the hague,

found its nigerian subsidiary was liable for oil spills in the delta. more than a decade ago, shell is argued, the spills were caused by sabotage. and that it shouldn't be held accountable for the dealings of a foreign subsidiary, but environmental groups of argued shall, was to blame, at least for the poor maintenance and security of the oil pipes. let's build on this now with energy analyst. 4 more. okay. you on there who is worked in the niger and effective for more than 2 decades now. great to have you with us and your, your expertise on this topic. look, shells withdrawal. let's talk about that 1st. is that necessarily a bad thing? are there not local companies who could actually see this as an opportunity? arm shells withdrawal is, is bad for the industrial nigeria and what our media local companies there. they will not be able to fill in the gaps shells leaving. they're going to create because they do not have the capacity to absorb to

volume. that's shell is going to produce. don't forget that shell has been upon your company, the industry in my area. and they to talk to about 60 percent. it's not more off manager us production of oil and gas, the local companies will not be able to seal the shoes off shell as they're pulling out. ok. and it blames the issues of sabotage and oil theft for the reason that it is leaving. i mean, how much responsibility can we always talk about responsibility, whether it fits with the company or with the government on a security level, the issue or sabotage is real and it bites. it buys both the companies and the government. ah, but when it comes to a personal blend, that's particularly want to look at food to our parson. blame too. but because the

question i've been asked this way, all the blames will go to the government. because i'll tact and the pipeline fund aligned to zation is able to happen because there's no security for the infrastructure. and shell, or any of the oil companies where the other for oil companies or the local companies are not in the business of switch over to the business of exploration and production of oil and gas. and so you couldn't lay blame for it. she totally dependent issue on any business, whether it be shell, whether it be a cement, manufacturing company and business. so that blame goes squarely a 100 percent on the government. and what about carrying fund wrong?

was there not some oil legislation that the nigerian government has failed to pass? would that have made a difference as a legislation that time on events have about taken? it's been about 21 years coming. and somehow because of legislation that there was so much talk about it now, and somehow we managed to get ourselves stuck in the past that didn't exist where we are the moment mixed. that piece of legislation redundant and the problem of the oil and gas industry, pre bates, that legislation and to just matter we down to one piece of legislation whose time has already passed anyways. ok. it's, it's to oversimplify the issue really oil is and this could be in so many countries it's either a blessing or a curse or perhaps a little bit of both nigeria case what happened to the oil wealth?

has it been squandered? has it been lost? is it when i just look at the overall economic situation of the country and think about how much money can come in from oil. there's a disconnect there. yes, there is. there is a disc about and there are reports after reports by many institutions, both local and international that has exposed this disconnect. you're talking about the other day. i was looking out a report from the world bank about that 2001 or 2003, they're about and they made such claims about corruption, you know, being responsible for. ready for stuff your thing is this, the disconnect is there you did, you did ask what happened to the wells, the wells that down. but you know, the thing with production wells is the age as well. and over time,

the volume of crude or gas able to guess from them will be depleted. however, missouri has made so much money from oil and gas and it doesn't show on the streets . it doesn't, it doesn't. it doesn't show on, on, on the how i put it now. and. yeah, exactly, it doesn't show in everyday life for people there and they are the people who don't have end up wondering why, why are we not in a better situation? why has that money been squandered? how did it happen? very interesting or some how. how did it happen? well, it went into it went into private pockets of some of some of the bruises in the country that it will, it will take us hours. if we want to go deep into this,

and there is also the issue of not reinvesting into the industry. i mean, for example, as far back as 2015, those of us in the industry knew that there was a serious lack of investment that was required for industry at the time. and you don't, you don't get something out of nothing. if you don't invest well then something you're not going to get returns and somehow we do selves to believe that, oh yeah, we're always going to have rails. and so we're always going to money. well, that's dollars behind to dimensions, because i know it's a depletion resource. and apart from the fact that is a depletion result where we are in the world today, some of the be just comes you myself or in the west, are beginning to greg wallace shipped away from sources. well, images source. i would do an absolutely nothing about it. i worry that it might get

to a point in my country where i would have to be drinking on a law. so because the rest of the world no longer meets the commodity goodness a fascinating talking to you for my ok, you my thank you so much for your time. really appreciate it. thank you for having me. and finally, piracy countries around the gulf of guinea are stepping up f, secure. he trying to fight off a shot rise and attacks by pirates. it's actually not the most dangerous area in the world for that. with nearly half of all the attacks this year. and in areas stretch from, from senegal in the north, to angola in the south. but of the 13 countries which have coasts on the gulf of guinea, it is nigi area, which is one of the worst effected once again. i made interest with our report this time for the port city of lake off the nigeria tests out new equipment soon to be deployed. it's the it's an arsenal of ground. air and sea vessels and equipment designed to tyco pirates operating in the gulf of tv. attacks

in the region have grown in number and sophistication of the past 5 years is very difficult to advocate. but our target is to see as 0 tolerance of my time insecurity within and beyond our onto the toyota. we have a complete gamble of land at the approach that can handle the issue of the insecurity. countries in the region lose nearly a $1000000000.00 annually to pirate to tags. many a carried out in nigeria and waters. many countries in west africa i'm the gulf of guinea, have tied them better time security for that of the continents biggest economy and for good reason. a significant number of the 32 attacks carried out in the 1st quarter of 2021 happened in nigeria, static toria,

waters ship operators who what the country's deployment of additional vessels like this. 17 interceptor boats 10 aircraft including groans, will help to keep the number down. in addition to the loss of lives and equipment, many businesses have closed. there was a time in the country that we had almost con right. lee. the problem was due to the the, the pirate and the videos. last, a lot of business. do you, who's out on reno, nevada, going on. and she says, getting them back will be hard as new threats a merging we have what does that come from you room and i mean, they feel like children recalls on the my sarah respect is remote in

red on the on red minus ship operators, navigating the gulf of guinea, now pay insurance premiums, similar to what's paid by those in wars zones. forcing some to avoid the region altogether. officious in nigeria hope they improved security force, worry so confidence in merchants once again, play the gulf of guinea and that is our chauffeur. this week, but i want to know what you think and what you want to see on the show as well. you can tweak o d m may come all a j eat the hash tag is a j d t faith. the email address that you prefer, that counting the cost down to 0, dot net and as ever there is more online at algebra dot com slash teaching se, that'll take you straight to our page. have entire episodes for you to catch up on whenever deadline. but that is, it's this tradition of counting the cost. i'm come all santa maria from the whole thing. thanks for joining us. the news on out to 0. i

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