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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