Legal Theft studies the intersection of policy, poverty, and peace (PPP). Nigeria is the case study. The book describes how grassroots stakeholders in the Niger Delta oil-related conflicts, oil companies and oil bearing communities, engage the conflict to assure coexistence through the General Memorandum of Association (GMOU). The study shows that the ultimate cause of the conflicts, which had resulted in violence, was the nationalization of natural resources, particularly petroleum oil, beginning with the 1969 Petroleum Decree. The author had predicted correctly in 2008, after the first phase of his research, a fieldwork in the then militant Niger Delta, that the violent conflict would spread to the whole country. The book concludes that prosperity and resultant peace would return to Nigeria when the country is returned, through appropriate legal, especially constitutional change, to restore full fiscal federalism, which was the foundation of the country's union, as enshrined in the original independence constitutions of 1960 incorporated into the 1963 republican constitution, notably sections 130 to 139 of the 1960 Independence Constitution.
