Nigeria: Communities Lose N24.3 Billion Oil Spill Suit Against Mobil

Indigenes of Kampa communities in Eastern Obolo local council of Akwa Ibom State have lost a N24.3 billion suit filed against Mobil Producing Nigeria after the Court of Appeal, Calabar Division struck it out.

In the suit filed on their behalf by one Chief Benjamin Pepple at the Federal High Court, Uyo Division, they had alleged oil spill from Mobil's Idoho-QIT pipeline in 2010. The communities claimed their sources of livelihood had been destroyed by the alleged oil spill and were therefore entitled to compensation against the oil major to the tune of N24.3 billion.

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