Nigeria: Ogoni Oil Spill and the Unclean Up Funds

24 October 2011
analysis

Following the UN report indicting Shell (a major oil company in Niger-Delta) over its operations particularly in the Ogoni land, the Senate, deliberated on the cleanup fund of $1billion. Chibuzo Ukaibe, captured the issues raised.

Last week, the Senate debated the United Nations Report on the Ogoni land Oil Spillage, (bordering on the recommended $1 billion for cleanup of the area). In what appears to be a season of retribution for Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) over its activities in the Niger Delta, the UN (Environmental Programme), after a two-year investigation accused Shell of being responsible for the Ogoniland pollution.

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