• Nigeria: Ground-Breaking Judgment Calls for Punishing Oil Companies Over Pollution

    Amnesty International (London), 17 December 2012

    Amnesty International and Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) have hailed last Friday's ECOWAS Court of Justice ground-breaking judgment as a "key moment in holding governments and companies to account for pollution."

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  • ras sideeq
    Dec 18 2012, 19:55

    HERE WE GO HERE WE GO WEST AFRICA!!!!!!!!!WEST AFRICA IS STANDING FIRM IN AFRICA YOUA!!!!!! FINALLY WE HAVE A TRUE COURT OF JUSTICE WHO IS STEPPING UP WITH RESPONSIBILITY AND JURISPRUDNCE>>> NIGERI NOW HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO TRY THESE OIL COMPANIES WHO PRACTICE IMPUNITY, THOSE DAYS ARE COMMING TO AN END!!. AFRICANS ARE BECCOMING ASSERTAIVE STANDING TALL OFR THIER HUMAN DIGNITY THIE4R RIGHTS. AFRICANS DOES NOT HAVE TO GO TO EUROEP TO GET JUSTICE WE PRACTICE IT EVRY WELL IN AFRICA. IT WAS OUR MISRULERS OUR OVERSEERS OUR ENSLAVERS WHO ILL[PRACTICES TRUTH JUSTICE AND EQUITY!!!! WITH THIER MISLEADING CHARACTERISTICS ,THEY MISLED US INTO EBLIEVING WE ARE NOT RADY FOR THE ROE AS TRIAL PROSECUTOR AND JUDGE ;;;; WELL! OH YES WE ARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IF WE DO NOT ESTABL;ISH THESE COURTS THRUOUT ALL AFRICA ESPECIALLY WHEN WE KNOW THERE IS SO MUCH WEALTH IN AFRICA. IT IS OUR JOBS TO CONTIUE TO MAINTIAN THE LANDS AS OUR FOR FATHGERS DID. AFRICA JUST DID NOT BECOME WEALTHY OVER NIGHT??? THIS WAS WHY WE WERE ENSLAVED, WHY THEY COLONISED US ,,FOR THE WEALTH. WE WERE BEING BLIND SIDED NOT NOW WE ARE NOT!!!. WE NEED THE RIVERS WITH ALL ITS LIFE WE NEED THE RIVERS FOR THE REPLENISHMENT OF ALL LIFE IN AFRICA. WE DO NOT NEED ALCOHOL WE NEED H WATER ,THE MOST IMPORTANT AND EXPENSIVE ELEMENT ON THE PLANET. WE NEED TO CAPTURE THESE IRREGULAR RAIN FALLS OUR FOREFATHERS HAD IT DOWN TO SCIENCE THEY NEW WHEN THE RAINS WOULD COME HOW TO MOVE BY THE ATRS THE MOON THEY WERE WELL EDUCATED IN ENVIRONMENTAL WAYS. THE EARH HAS BEEN THIER DOMAIN SINCE THIER FIRST CREATION. WE MUST NOT TAKE ANY THING FOR GRANTED IN AFRICA !!. I SAY TO MY AFRICAN ELDERS AND YOUNGERS THE WAYS OF OUR FOREFATHERS WERE INDEED GRETA YOU JUST NEED TO SEE IT; THIER BELIFES WERE SOLID THIS IS WHY WE CAN STILL SEE THIER PRACTICES IN RELIGIONS ALL OVER THE PLANET. RIGHETOUSNESS WAS EASILY ACCESSED BY BLACK PEOPLE IT TOOK OVER FIVE HUNDRED YEARS BEFORE THEY COULD ACTUALLY SAY THEY CORRUPTED AFRICANS. DO YOU KNOW THE TREM3ENDOUS AMMOUNTS OF LIFE THEY TOOK JUST TO DO THIS MEAN FEAT ?? WELL I WILL TELL YOU WE HAVE LOST OVER ONE HUNDRED MILLION AND THAT WAS JUST CROSSING THROUGH THE MIDDLE PASSAGE DURING THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE. SINCE THEN WWE HAVE LOST AT LEAST ANOTHER FITY OR SO MILLION!!!!. IT IS TRULY TIME WE STOPPED TAKING EACH OTHERS LIVES; INSTEAD OF HELPING THEM IN THEIR FEEBLE ATTEMPTS TO ERADICATE US FROM THE PLANET????." I CAN SAY FOR CERTAINTY "THIS IS THE BLACK MANS TIME'!!!" WAKE UP TIME' !! SEEK ALL THE KNOWLDGE WE CAN ATTAIN. " DAY UNTO DAY BRIGETTH FORTH KNOWLEDGE NIGHT BRINGETH FORTH OVERSTANDING" . "THE MORE DICIPLINE WE HAVE' THE MORE WE LEARN THE MORE WE CAN TEACH EACH OTHER" THIS COURT IS HERE FOR US TO REATIN THE KNOWLEDGE AND FOR US TO REVITALISE OUR RESPECT FOR OUR ENVIRONMENT " ITS ALL ABOUT PSOTIVE THINKING FORWARD THINKING AND " RESPECT FOR SELF FOR LIFE FOR ENVIRONMENT>>> THEY COME INTO AFRICA WITH GREED LIES MISREPRESENTATIONS DESTROYING OUR ENVIRONMENTS PLAYING ON THE POVERTY THEY CREATED FOR US WITH THEIR MISRULE MISEDUCATION HYPOCRISY. WE MUST ABANDON THEIR TEACHINGS AND LOOK AROUND US SEE FOR YORUSELVES HOW MUCH THEY HAVE UNDERMINED ORU VERY SOULS AND INTEGRITY!!!.. " LISTEN TO THIER WORD ATT AL LEVELS THEY UDNERMINE US TELLING US WE ARE NOT READY WE CAN NOT DO FOR SELF WE NEED THEM. WE NEED A STRONGER WORK ETHCI OF ROUND THE CLOCK TO MAKE SURE WE GET IT DONE PROPERLY AND WAY AHEAD OF SCHEDULE. WE NEED THOSAE AFRICANS INEVSTORS WHO HJAS THE MONEY TO BRING INTO AFRICA INVEST IN THE THINSG THATS NEEDED AT LEAST YOU CAN EMPOWER MORE PEOPLE AND GET A PROFIT ON THE DEAD MONEY. IF YOU KLEEP IT TOOLONG IN THIER VAULTS THEY WILL ROB YOU. RIGHT NOW THEY HAVE ROBBED YOU ANY WAY THEY USE MSIUSE YORU MONEY WITHOUT YOUR KNOWLEDGE IT IS BETTER TO PUT ALL THAT MONEY IN AFRICAN INVESTMENTS. I SAY TO AFRICA WE MUST SUP[PORT THIS NOBLE EFFORT OF THIS COURT IN ECOWAS. REMIND YOURSELVES THAT THE LAWS ARE CONSTITUIONAL TREATY BOUND BY AFRICAN LAWS!!!! IF WE DO NOT LET KNOWN THAT WE HAVE VERY STRONG LAWS, JUST AS RELEVANT AS ANY WESTERN NATION OR EVEN MORE SO!!!!!!WE WILL E BLOWN OUT OF THE WATER AND SEEN AS ; HOW THEY TREATED US DURING THE LIBYAN CRISIS AS IF WE WERE NOT ALL AFRICANS. THESE ARE THEY WHO HELPED STAIN AND CREATE THIS DIVISION IN AFRICA. AFRICANS LAWS MUST BE OBEYED 'BY ALL PARTIES, EUROPEANS, ASIAN, AFRICANS ALIKE ; "THE LAWS OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE AFRICAN UNION' ARE NOW BEING IMPLIMENTED IN ECOWAS REGION OF AFRICA"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!