Mr Mahtani accepted that the negative publicity surrounding Best might put some people off donating their organs.

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Deepak Mahtani is from the organisation Transplants in Mind, which works to increase public awareness of the benefits of organ donation.

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Mr. DINO MAHTANI (Reporter, Financial Times): Usually, in the Niger Delta, you have a series of armed groups who crawl the swamps and the rivers, tapping into pipelines, emptying well heads, and bunkering ships.

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Mr. MAHTANI: That's right, the Ijaw are the dominant ethnic group in the Niger delta, and many Ijaw leaders and chiefs believe that, their people have been cheated out of Nigeria's oil by the greedy central government, by the greedy oil multinationals, as they term them.

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Mr. MAHTANI: Well, Nigeria is the eighth biggest exporter in the world, and after these wave of attacks last week, which included the hostage taking and an explosion on a pipeline that fed a key export terminal, Nigeria had to shut down about 226, 000 barrels per day, that's about 10% of Nigeria's total production, which are still down.

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