SHELL NON-STOP OIL SPILLS IN NIGERIA SINCE 1958

We do not talk about that on front pages pf newspapers or anywhere else.

Shell has been extracted oil from the Niger delta in Nigeria for decades, which is not the crime. The crime is, it creates hundreds of oil spills a year.

Amnesty reports, it has gone on for decades. By now 42,000 residents are effected. Their drinking water, cooking water, grown food and fishes are all so badly polluted. They decided to take it to court.

The High Court in the UK is now deciding whether the people in Nigeria will have a case against Shell UK Ltd to be heard in Britain.

If the people win their case; it would also bring in other transnational firms based in Britain for Human Rights abuse overseas.

The Shell’s Nigeria subsidiary, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) argues the case is outside British jurisdiction.

The community affected by oil pollution, will certainly have a fight on their hands taking on the mighty Shell.

Two separate legal action have been brought against Shell by 42,000 people from the OGALE and BILLE community in the Niger Delta in Nigeria south Niger State who are affect by constant oil spills. Their environment and livelihoods had been destroyed.

The pollution of food growing on their land and eating poisoned fish resulted in breathing problems and skin lesions.

This is going on since1958 when Nigeria was a British colony.

But Sarah Shoraka, a global oil and environment campaign group Platform London, argues “Shell is a UK company and must held to account for its human rights abuses in the UK courts.”

Morning Star