This is to detail the crime committed by Shell against the people of NIGERIA.A crime which they have continued to commit in collusion with the PDP government.

Feast your eyes on the shame called Nigeria :


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Nigeria's activist leader Ken Saro Wiwa at the Ogani Day demonstration in Nigeria, January 1993. He was sentenced to death on charges of murder along with his co-defendants, eight members of the Ogani movement in October 1995.

Friday Zorzor, a grave digger at a Port Harcourt, cemetery in Nigeria, points out graves where US investigators are trying to unravel a mystery and exhume what are believed to be the remains of Ken Saro-Wiwa, the internationally known Nigerian playwright and activist. After Nigeria's former ruling military hanged Ken Saro-Wiwa in 1995, security agents warned cemetery workers that the body's whereabouts was a secret they should carry to their own graves. During an exhumation lasting several weeks, a pair of American forensic experts dug up what they believe are the bones and skulls of Saro-Wiwa and seven others of the so-called Ogoni Nine.

Gas flaring leading to massive pollution.

OIL SPILLS

A Nigerian Shell worker watches over a well head that spilled crude oil near the Niger river delta village of Oloibiri in Bayelsa state of Nigeria, June 2004. The Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell has sent a clean-up team to try to contain an oil slick.

A privately owned water tap is locked in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, October 2004. Port Harcourt, the oil capital of Africa is a crowded city plagued by crime where most people live on mud streets without electricity, running water or sewer. Despite producing 2.26 million barrels of oil a day, 60 percent of Nigerians live below the poverty line.

A young girl sells drinks to workers at the Trans-Amadi Slaughter, the main abbatoir of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Animals are killed in the open and their skins burned by the flames of old tyres, which creates thick clouds of black smoke over the city. Fish had been the traditional source of protein in the Niger Delta, but fish stocks have dwindled due to pollution from the oil industry and over-fishing

Workers subcontracted by Shell Oil Company clean up an oil spill from an abandoned Shell Petroleum Development Company well, in Oloibiri Town, Bayelsa, Nigeria. Wellhead 14 was closed in 1977 but has been leaking for years, and in June of 2004 it finally released an oil spill of over 20,000 barrels of crude oil.

Lili Okrika stands at the entrance to their shack house in Biriya-Ama a village near Port Harcourt, Nigeria, February 2006. The village of palm-frond huts in Nigeria's southern Niger Delta region sits atop one of Africa's richest energy deposits but it remains mired in deep poverty.

thats what I call poverty in the midst of abundance!!!

Exposed piplines,this is not allowed in any other OIL producing country except Nigeria

Local youths walk on oil pipeline belonging to the Shell Oil company in Utorogun, Nigeria, 5 March 2006.

Women dry tapioca beside flames from Shell's Utorogu flow station in Otu Jerenmi in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta, March 2006.

This is dangerous for their health because the flames are laced with crude oil fumes.

Children play on an abandoned Shell flowstation in Korokoro, Ogoniland, Nigeria, in May 2007. Tiny Ogoniland offers a glimpse of the oil industry's worst-case scenario.

OIL stained farmers whose crops has been destroyed by oil spills.They were unable to salvage their crops.They were not even compensated.

Mr Jonathan,i put this question to you right now, does Nigeria really need inland Oil fields .This inland Oil fields and pipelines have destroyed the Niger Delta, is it not time now for you as the president to do something. Why don’t we shut down all inland Oil field, remove all inland pipelines and only give licenses for offshore oil feilds.70% of our oil reserve are in the seas so why don’t we just focus on offshore Oil and close down inland Oils field and pipelines.

In a few decades from now petrol will not be in use anymore, most car companies are already developing alternative energy for their vehicles. We have to start planning for the future of Nigeria and the Niger delta. If you completely destroy the Niger delta ,what will the future generation of Niger deltans do with the land because it won’t be able to grow crops and there will be no fish in the water.

I think we need to start thinking ahead like the Americans. The Americans are clever, they have oil on land but they restricted the number of inland oilrigs because of pollution. Most of America’s oils field are in the gulf of Mexico which is off the coast of Louisiana .Why can’t we do the same ,instead of drilling oil inland ,why can’t we just stick to offshore oil. If there is honesty in our petroleum sector, Nigeria can issue a lot of offshore licenses and even produce up to six million barrels a day easily.

I have attached a map of US oil rigs here for your perusal. If the oil rigs are offshore, their pipelines will run under the sea straight to bonny terminal without crossing any Niger Delta village. There will be no pollution on land any more and sea pollution can be monitored easily. There will also be no fires when the oil leaks because the sea will immediately eliminate the flames.

I think the Niger Delta should be cleaned up by specialist environmental clean- up companies and turned in to tourist cities.

We Nigerians are the only ones who destroy our own country. American, Australians, South Africans preserve the natural beauty of their land and create jobs by building holiday resorts by the sea attracting tourist. We Nigerians on the other hand spill oil every where and cause poverty of our own citizens

The Niger Delta is as beautiful as South Africa but severely polluted. If i were you Mr President, i will covert the Niger Delta to look like this instead of issuing out new oil blocks to your corrupt friends:

This is what the Niger Delta should look like

Hmmmnnnnnnnnnnnnn. Igo talk plenty O

deep stuff. surely something to think about

Our leader are the ones killing its people because of greed, selfishness, corruption and everything bad.

How I pray that God will send someone who has the fear and love of the masses at heart, Nigeria will be a land to behold.

good presentation, calls for sober reflection

no be small research this guy do

The pollution and neglect of the ND by both the oil companies, the FG, state and local governments is a prime shame and a disgrace.

If Jonathan takes radical steps towards making some of these wrongs, right, he will become dear to the hearts of most Nigerians.

Unfortunately our politicians will not see anything wrong. The truth is they dont believe change is possible hence they loot for their posterity to live lavish abroad. I work in the niger delta. The level of pollution in the coastal region is very bad, the vegatations have withered away. It will take years for a massive cleanup exercise to have any meaningful effect. This nation has done great injustice to the niger delta people.

Nice work. I really hope someone at d helm of affairs will heed to this.