A new book described by Engineer Gbenga Komolafe, Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission as highly innovative and an essential manual for stakeholders in the Nigerian oil and gas industry will be launched in Lagos on Monday, November 14,2022.
The book titled:”No Good Deed Goes Unpunished”.The contentious search for Peace in the Niger Delta authored by three employees of Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL),namely;Jide Ajide,John Ashima and Oluwole Agunbiade.
Komolafe noted in the forward to the book that it is innovative for many reasons,among them as a pioneering effort at first narrative of the peculiarities of the Niger Delta situation from an informed upstream oil and gas perspective.
The book depicts the contentious relations in the Niger Delta by citing real-life case studies and through interviews conducted by the author’s with scores of stakeholders, among them government officials, community leaders, women representatives,civil rights activists, environmentalists,oil industry operators and representatives of non-government agencies.
Through these interviews and case studies,the authors documented opportunities for lasting peace, while also highlighting potential areas of discontent,agitation,and restiveness.
These contradictions,the book shows,are borne out of high expectations and sinking despair among community person’s.
The authors of the book have a 95-year cumulative experience in the petroleum industry,with 36 of the years spent managing the often stormy,but occasionally cordial relationships among stakeholders in the oil-rich Niger Delta.
Over 13 chapters, including introductory section,the book details the genesis of oil production operations in Nigeria, through different epochs of social interaction among stakeholders.
Besides,No Good Deed Goes Unpunished shows how the Nigerian oil and gas industry transited literally from the age of innocence,through a period of restrained dissent,into full-blown militancy and finally,to the current era of renewed hope amid foreboding anxiety.
The book ends with the analysis of the Petroleum Industry Act,described as a reset of the clock of Niger Delta’s stakeholders’ relations.
In their reviews of the book, Professor Fonkem Achakeng of the university of Wisconsin,USA,Professor Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso of Babcock University,ilishan,Nigeria and Mr. Toyin Akinosho, Publisher of the authoritative Africa Oil+Gas Report variously describe the book as a treasure trove for potential and current investors in the Nigerian energy sector,policy makers desirous of making the difference, researchers into the Niger Delta crisis and generally,those seeking knowledge about the complexity of motives and concatenation of forces which make Niger Delta’s peace both elusive and essential.
