Local youths feel the only way they can benefit from the region's oil wealth is by stealing.
And with the Nigerian transport system mainly restricted to roads, getting petrol is vital. Such is the poor state of the electricity supply from the state-run power provider, NEPA, that residents and industries often have to rely on power generators which also run on fuel. And when people become desperate to get petrol to operate their cars or generators they resort to purchasing from the black market run by unemployed youths. Lagos-based Adebi Olusa has been in the petrol black market business for the past seven years and explains how it works. Then, we hide them in the bush or beaches or in ships no longer in use.