LAGOS (AFP) – Nigeria and
Shell have done almost
nothing to ease oil pollution in
the Ogoniland area of the
Niger Delta, three years after a
landmark UN report called for a $1 billion dollar clean-up,
Amnesty International said
Monday. Environmental devastation in
Ogoniland has for many come
to symbolise the tragedy of
Nigeria’s vast oil wealth. Decades of crude production
filled the pockets of powerful
government officials and
generated huge profits for oil
majors like Shell, while
corruption and spills left the people with nothing but land
too polluted for farming or
fishing. Exactly three years ago, a
United Nations Environment
Programme report said the
area may require the world’s
biggest-ever clean-up and
called on the oil industry and Nigerian government to
contribute $1 billion. “Three years on and the
government and Shell have
done little more than set up
processes that look like action
but are just fig leaves for
business as usual,” said Godwin Ojo of Friends of the
Earth Nigeria, which partnered
with Amnesty and three
other groups in a new report
called “Shell: No Progress”.

Shell has not pumped crude
from Ogoniland since 1993,
when it was forced to pull out
because of unrest. Two years later,
environmental activist Ken
Saro Wiwa, who had fiercely
criticised Shell’s presence in
Ogoniland, was executed by
the regime of dictator Sani Abacha, one of the most
condemned episodes in the
region’s history. Nigeria returned to civilian
rule in 1999 after Abacha’s
death, but critics say the
governments elected since
have done little to improve
pollution in the Niger Delta. “No matter how much
evidence emerges of Shell’s
bad practice, Shell has so far
escaped the necessity to clean
up the damage it has caused,”
said Audrey Gaughran of Amnesty International. In April of 2013, Shell staff
returned to Ogoniland for the
first time in two decades to
study how best to
decommission their decaying
assets in the region. The company described the
move as “a key step” in
complying with the UNEP
report. Nigeria is Africa’s largest oil
producer, pumping out
roughly two million barrels
per day.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/action-shell-nigeria-ogoniland-pollution-report-amnesty/

.FTC things...

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Oh Ken Saro Wiwa, you died for your people. We, the people of Rivers state have great love and respect for you.

When the leaders won't stop collecting bribe from them instead of asking for the needful

May God delivers us from Stup.dity









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superior1: Pk

what?

gud morning

BrAkingNews: what?

Water

Sometimes I do wonder....wie are all dis money going....nd come to think of t....is t possible dat d military can take over government again?

Why naa
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Everybody wan chop oil money

our oyeh, our pple

Three years on and the
government and Shell have
done little more than set up
processes that look like action
but are just fig leaves for
business as usual..

= talking about "we will set up a committe to look into the matter"

Decades of crude production
filled the pockets of powerful
government officials and
generated huge profits for oil
majors like Shell

now who's to blame?
shell or "them"?

If it were to be in their country,this nonsense will not happen this way...........come to think of it,where is Asari Dokubu,Tompolo,Governor Thunder and others.........okay,they are all comfortable now with enof bucks.........chai see human beings,they are now with the oga @ the top and to hell with the people they have long been lying to fighting their cause.If na boko haram or GEJ 2015,their mouths will let loose dogs of vandalism.God will protect us.

The issue of enviromental pollution in Ogoni land has not been addressed

There is still endemic poverty in the Niger delta creeks. Oil spillage is still rampant; despoiling their rivers, farmlands etc

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is from the Niger Delta, what has he done for his Niger Delta people? This people are still suffering

gej till
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Front page tinz. At list I go get to FTC one day

BoiledCorn: Everybody wan chop oil money

The Oil money is their entitlement.

Oil flows underneath their soil but unfortunately it is only the few greedy Niger Delta politicians and militants that have access to the Oil wealth.

The people in the Niger Delta creeks and Oil producing communities are still suffering

Just give them a State

Too bad

Once it doesn't affect YORUBA kingdom,wtf is my business.
Operation use up the oil wells

No-one cares about the poor in Nigeria until they arm themselves and start blowing up stuff/kidnapping and killing people. Then we notice. Dokubo has filled his pockets and is content, GEJ doesn't care, their governor cannot be bothered. Until the youths there decide to learn how to build a bomb. Then we will all be screaming.

dozzzybaba: The Oil money is their entitlement.

Oil flows underneath their soil but unfortunately it is only the few greedy Niger Delta politicians and militants that have access the Oil wealth.

The people in the Niger Delta creeks and Oil producing communities are still suffering are still suffering

Do you know how much Bayelsa with their small land recieves a year?

This is the case asari dokubo would have been fighting to address rather dan fighting for gej...As much as i want to see jonathan remain in power as long as possible i just cant allow his govt be dis toothless..something must be done and d only thing to be done is keep our peace and


































vote GEJ in 2015

ok

purchased

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Curruption Evrywhere!!

Emmaomotob: Do you know how much Bayelsa with their small land recieves a year?

monthly federal allocation

13% oil derivation

NDDC

Ministry of the Niger delta etc