Niger Delta Communities; shell pays N15.4bn for oil spills
Shell oil company has paid the sum of N15.4bn(£55m) to the Niger –Delta communities as compensation
over oil spill. These development has being long overdue said the Amnesty
International and Centre for Environment, Human Right and Development.
The Director of Global Issue at Amnesty International
Audrey Gaughram said the pay-out was long awaited victory for the thousands of
people who lost their livelihood in Bodo
and described the compensation as “close to fair compensation” that has
taking six years to get.
The oils spills which occurs six
years ago in Bodo area, the legal action by the United Kingdom has made shell
to pay in the sum of the amount as compensation to the Bodo community in
which £35m
would be used to settle 15,600 individual and £20 m for the community.
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