Oil giant Shell will pay 15 million euros ($15.9 million) to communities in Nigeria that were affected by multiple oil pipeline leaks in the Niger Delta, the oil company on Friday said in a joint statement with the Dutch division of Friends of the Earth.

The compensation is the result of a Dutch court case brought by Friends of the Earth, in which Shell’s Nigerian subsidiary last year was found to be responsible for the oil spills and was ordered to pay for damages to farmers.

However, our correspondent reports that the Niger Delta pollution has continued despite years of promises by successive governments in Nigeria to clean it up.

In 2016 President Muhammadu Buhari launched an ambitious clean-up operation in Ogoniland.

The work is ongoing but residents say little progress has been made.

Continued oil spills from the activities of multinationals have also cast doubt on the impact of the clean-up exercise. “Things are getting worse by the day,” Celestine Akpobari, an environmental activist from Ogoni, told the BBC.

The region provides most of Nigeria’s government revenues but the communities say successive governments have neglected them. Mr Akpobari says people can no longer fish or farm because of the devastation.

“People are dying, there are strange diseases and women are having miscarriages” from the pollution, he says. But the communities and campaigners say the recent court victory gives them hope they will see justice.

In February last year, the UK Supreme Court ruled that oil-polluted Nigerian communities can sue Shell in English courts.

The decision was seen as a victory for the communities after a five-year battle, and overturns a Court of Appeal ruling.

The Niger Delta communities of more than 40,000 people say decades of pollution have severely affected their lives, health and local environment.

The oil giant had argued it was only a holding company for a firm that should be judged under Nigerian law.

Shell described the legal ruling as disappointing.

https://leadership.ng/pollution-shell-accepts-to-pay-e15m-compensation-to-nigerian-communities/


Nlfpmod

Niger Delta leaders already pricing properties in Lagos.

That money has already vaporized before payment

The same pollution the Ogoni people fought for and were all killed


May God judge the wicked Ababcha who sided the colonial masters to execute Ken Sarowiwa for speaking out for the weak and unprivileged village people in Ogoni land.

He killed Ken just to continue to loot the country and today,where is Abacha and those of them who supported his looting?

Wickedness does not pay.

Save the environment! Save lives!

The next administration should focus on environment amidst other things...

Ibechris2:
The same pollution the Ogoni people fought for and were all killed


May God judge the wicked Ababcha who sided the colonial masters to execute Ken Sarowiwa for speaking out for the weak and unprivileged village people in Ogoni land.

He killed Ken just to continue to loot the country and today,where is Abacha and those of them who supported his looting?

Wickedness does not pay.

Where is the said Abacha today? He died in the hands of a woman from eating ordinary apple.

Massive cash out from those communitiy.

They go fight tire for that money. Their traditional rulers and subjects go exchange blows tired

Militant cash out season.

Ibechris2:
The same pollution the Ogoni people fought for and were all killed


May God judge the wicked Ababcha who sided the colonial masters to execute Ken Sarowiwa for speaking out for the weak and unprivileged village people in Ogoni land.

He killed Ken just to continue to loot the country and today,where is Abacha and those of them who supported his looting?

Wickedness does not pay.

Abacha was not a demon as many Nigerians think.

Saro wiwa was being used by IMF and World Bank to disrupt the Abacha regime because Abacha stopped the devaluation of the Naira and refused to pay them bogus interest rates of billions of dollars.

Ken was not a genuine environmental activist, it was just politics. Ken was a member of the elite class, he was sani Abacha personal friend. Instead of asking for his share of the national cake from his friends in their normal way he succumbed to be used by Western powers to destabilise the Abacha government.

Abacha did not steal Nigeria's money. He only hid it from the IMF and World Bank, to be recovered later. The money was supposed to be recovered later, that was the intention ab initio.

Abacha was a true patriot and hero.

holocron:


Abacha was not a demon as many Nigerians think.

Saro wiwa was being used by IMF and World Bank to disrupt the Abacha regime because Abacha stopped the devaluation of the Naira and refused to pay them bogus interest rates of billions of dollars.

Ken was not a genuine environmental activist, it was just politics. Ken was a member of the elite class, he was sani Abacha personal friend. Instead of asking for his share of the national cake from his friends in their normal way he succumbed to be used by Western powers to destabilise the Abacha government.

Abacha did not steal Nigeria's money. He only hid it from the IMF and World Bank, to be recovered later. The money was supposed to be recovered later, that was the intention ab initio.

Abacha was a true patriot and hero.

U and Abacha must be from the same village.

Like Abacha like Mobutu seseko of the Republic of Congo.

CoronaVirusRelo:
Niger Delta leaders already pricing properties in Lagos.

That money has already vaporized before payment

Not true, part of the money is coming to my community, presently negotiating how much from that money is for us.

holocron:


Abacha was not a demon as many Nigerians think.

Saro wiwa was being used by IMF and World Bank to disrupt the Abacha regime because Abacha stopped the devaluation of the Naira and refused to pay them bogus interest rates of billions of dollars.

Ken was not a genuine environmental activist, it was just politics. Ken was a member of the elite class, he was sani Abacha personal friend. Instead of asking for his share of the national cake from his friends in their normal way he succumbed to be used by Western powers to destabilise the Abacha government.

Abacha did not steal Nigeria's money. He only hid it from the IMF and World Bank, to be recovered later. The money was supposed to be recovered later, that was the intention ab initio.

Abacha was a true patriot and hero.

Funny enough you say so, because all the other Africans with political insight I came across in the United States, all seem to have respect for Sani Abacha?

He is like another Thomas Sankara to them.

sapele914:
Not true, part of the money is coming to my community, presently negotiating how much from that money is for us.

I worked in the South-South couples of decades ago and I know how it’s done. I have live experiences.

Only crumbs will trickle down!

where are all the school, hospital and IT hub contracts that have been awarded over the years?


South-South is a typical case of man eating man!

CoronaVirusRelo:


I worked in the South-South couples of decades ago and I know how it’s done. I have live experiences.

Only crumbs will trickle down!

where are all the school, hospital and IT hub contracts that have been awarded over the years?


South-South is a typical case of man eating man!

Less than crumbs, very pathetic.

sapele914:
Less than crumbs, very pathetic.

Thanks for reaffirming.