As a member of the powerful and secretive U.S. Corporate Council on Africa, Mobil actively campaigns for a U.S. policy that puts corporate profits ahead of Black lives in Nigeria. In Nigeria and Must Withdraw. Without these dollars the regime would not be able to survive. Mobil and the other major Western oil companies operate in business partnerships with the military regime and therefore bear direct responsibility for the suffering of the Nigerian people. It is wrong for Mobil to do business with the brutal Nigerian dictatorship just as it was wrong for Mobil to do business in racist South Africa.
Human lives are more important than corporate profits.
Mobil Must Immediately Cut Its Ties To The Dictator's Security Forces. Yet Mobil directly pays salaries and expenses for armed and uniformed Nigerian security forces assigned to protect Mobil facilities. This is direct complicity with the repressive apparatus of the regime and cannot be reconciled with Mobil's claims of political neutrality and corporate good citizenship in Nigeria. Mobil Must Cancel Its Nigeria Expansion Plan. At a time when Nigerian democracy leaders are calling for international sanctions against the regime, Mobil has commenced a vast expansion of its Nigerian operations.