Combating Corporation-Induced Environmental Pollution in Nigeria vide Shari’ah Mechanism
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Date
2022
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International Journal of Law and Social Sciences (IJLS)
Abstract
The menace of environmental pollution is not limited
to a particular clime. The scourge is being felt globally.
Efforts to combat the menace are still ongoing at global,
regional and national levels. Nigeria, as a sovereign na tion, has suffered and is still suffering the menace of
environmental pollution. The discovery of crude oil in
commercial quantity gave birth to corporation-induced
environmental pollution. National effort towards com bating corporation-induced pollution gave rise to se ries of legal frameworks while the country continues
to experience environmental degradation. Against this
backdrop, this paper looks for options beyond the con ventional corporate law vide Shari’ah mechanism. This
paper, which employs the Qualitative Research Design,
adopts both the doctrinal and non-doctrinal legal re search approaches. For the doctrinal approach, content
analysis was adopted to analyze the primary sources like
texts of Fiqh and legislations as well as the secondary
sources such as textbooks, journals, articles, reports,
among others. With the aid of comparative analysis,
the paper compares approaches to corporation-induced
environmental protection under conventional law and
Shari’ah. The paper further presents a visual represen tation of the various views using thematic analysis with
the help of ATLAS.ti software. The paper contends that
environmental pollution signifies corporate governance
failure. It also argues that despite the availability of le gal framework for environmental protection, the men ace of corporation-induced pollution is persistent ow ing to certain challenges. It is contended that Nigeria
has never considered Shari’ah perspective in protecting its environment. Hence, Shari’ah approach is recom mended for combating corporation-induced environ mental pollution in Nigeria.