By Dave Clark
Lagos - A toxic cocktail of political scheming, greedy soldiers and ethnic bigotry fuels Nigeria's increasingly deadly array of local turf wars, experts said on Saturday, after the latest clash left more than 600 dead.
And while politicians and retired generals have armed and incited mobs to protect their power and profits, the sectarian and tribal hatred they exploit now risks running out of their control and triggering further massacres.
"The crises are caused by a combination of many factors, the most important being the bad leadership which manipulates ethnic and religious sentiments for its own interests," political scientist Abubakar Siddique said.
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I wonder how Dave 'Moral' Clark could write this entire story without mentioning Chevron or Shell?
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Oil installations are often subject to hostage taking and acts of sabotage in Nigeria, where local communities feel they have been exploited by oil companies and successive Nigerian governments
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