Nigeria: Oil Spill - FG Faults UN Report

26 August 2010
Leadership (Abuja)
By Iyobosa Uwugiaren and Gloria Ezeiru

Abuja — The Federal Government and Environmental Rights Action and Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA) have reacted sharply to the report credited to the United Nations Environmental Programme(UNEP) by the international media that its three-year investigation, conducted and funded with $9.5million by Shell Petroleum Company, had revealed that only 10 percent of the pollution in Ogoniland was caused by equipment failure and company negligence and that the rest was caused by the community.

The reactions, which generated global outrage and condemnation from Nigerians all over the country, had prompted the Federal Government to fault UNEP which has not submitted its report to the government.

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