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pollution, social and economic dislocation, crime) and benefits

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  • "pollution, social and economic dislocation, crime) and benefits of environment (food,nutrients, education of health care assistance, clean water and air, acquisition anddevelopment of skills, development of community, transportation and jobs that ar..

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  • "pollution, social and economic dislocation, crime) and benefits of environment (food,nutrients, education of health care assistance, clean water and air, acquisition anddevelopment of skills, development of community, transportation and jobs that are secured). This is not the case in Nigeria and in the Niger Delta oil region. Rather, CSR in Nigeria hasbeen very turbulent (Yomere, 2002), putting ethnic groups against one another. Thus oilcorporate organisation?s CSR activities are usually seen by the people as a “pin in sheaf insimilar to the huge take-home income of these corporate organisations” (Aderemi 2011).Aderemi (2011) further quoted their disruptive action in the following words: It serves as acover against the different cases of exploitation of resource and involvement of the corporateorganisations in human rights violations. Surviving on the ethnic disputes, (that they havecreated), control of resources tussle between oil rich communities and the Nigeriangovernment, the private sector organisations and others simply continues to get away with theway they abuse the environment via flaring of gas, oil spillages etc.So disruptive have the Oil corporate organisation brands of corporate social behaviour, i.e.they determine who is employed in their highly technical companies. Yomere(2002) statedthis when he noted that highly qualified young people from the Niger Delta region hardlyfind favour in the policies of recruitment of the multi-national oil firms. But rather petty jobslike cleaners, gardeners are given to the people of the community to do.He further argues thatthese young graduates did not meet their standard of excellence which is an excuse for therecruitment of graduates from outside the Niger Delta region, is totally not acceptable to thisyoung talented people. But they rather offer petty jobs like gardeners, cleaners to them. Also,requests for required monetary compensations for damages on people?s farmlands, equipmentfor fishing etc. and the demand for a special consideration for local contractors from theNiger Delta region is always met with disruptive strategies.The problem of benefit is a very good example in showing the disruptiveness of oil firms“assumed” corporate social responsibility. Apart from the fact that benefits are not totallypaid, if it is paid at all, they always employ the divide and rule approach in paying benefit.What they do is to search out for those they think are very educated, troublesome, and paysmall amount to them and believe that these can satisfy any insurgence from the communityinvolved. Shell, which is the corporate organisation that controls more than 50% of exploration of oil inthe oil rich region and that have indicated differently their assumed commitment to thedevelopment of the oil rich region has very lately been charged for serious pollution of the oilrd rich region. On the 3 of august, 2015 it was publicly announced that Shell has agreed on theresponsibility for two main spills at Bodo which is an oil rich community in the delta region,that seriously damaged the livelihood of the oil rich communities. The judgment indicatedthat Shell has contributed immensely more to the sufferings of the community. The UnitedNation?s Report on the impacts of oil pollution in Ogoni-land and also in the Delta regionended that on the basis of scientific research Volume 4, June 2015 Journal of Social Scienceand Public Policy 16 conducted within the life span of 2 years, oil firm?s exploratoryoperations Shell especially, have had dangerous effect on the human rights of the citizensliving in the oil rich region. It was found that oil pollution is widespread, contrary to oilfirms? claims of tackling the environmental effects of their operations. According to thedirector of Amnesty International Global Issues, Andrey Gaughran, the report shows Shellhas had negative effect on Nigeria, and has got away denying it for many years, maliciouslyclaiming they work to global best standard. The United Nation?s Report also indicated thedeceptive claims by Shell in regulations, social, environmental, technical and commercialconsiderations in its Sustainability Report. It has clearly shown that commitment of Shell todevelopment of community uncertain, confident and environmentally unbalanced. 7 CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONThis research shows that there is a difference in Niger Delta region between practice andexecution of the main elements of corporate social responsibility. It is to be noted that it is notonly the corporate organisations that have ignored their social responsibilities but also boththe local, state, and the federal government that have failed in carrying out their primaryresponsibility providing a framework that firms will follow in performing their duties or beforced to do so. Much is not spent on this, the disputes that have eroded the oil rich region to the extent thatboth the private sector organisations and the local people are the easy victims that is blamedfor the issues. This is the reason why CSR is very essential especially in developing nationslike Nigeria which can help in addressing the social issues of the oil rich communities whenthe government has failed in its responsibility. The truth is that; much responsibility is placedon these corporate organisations whose main responsibilities are not to be sociallyresponsible to the communities in which they operate. It is when the government at all levelsin Nigeria perform their roles that the importance of CSR activities can be felt by all, whichreduces the impacts the operations of this oil companies have on the environment andengaging the local communities in tackling the social issues.It is the responsibility of the state to make sure that enough enforcement and regulatoryframework exists that ensures that corporate organisations carry out their activities in anenvironmentally responsible way and when they did not comply, that the laws are enforced.While private sector organisations have a social responsibility to the communities theyoperate in, the framework in which this is to work effectively must be provided by thegovernment. In view of this, this research recommends that the Nigerian government must provide theframework that will make sure the private sector organisations carry out their CSR activities to the community in which they operate. The private sector organisations on the other handmust know that involving in CSR activities is an investment which will benefit them in thelong run. Private sector organisations should not take CSR activities as an expense but aninvestment. The private sector organisations must know that if they do not take care of theirenvironments and communities in which they operate in addressing the social issues, it willaffect their future operations, so because of that, their communities must be taken care of sothat they can enjoy the future benefit. For instance, when the communities are well taken careof, they tend to give their maximum support to the organisation in helping to secure theirproperties and facilities against vandalism because the community now sees the company?sproperties as their own.8 LIST OF REFERENCE "

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