STOP THE BLAME GAME, CIVIL SOCIETY GROUP URGES SHELL ON OGONI CLEAN UP.

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Following last week’s surprise announcement by Shell’s new CEO, Ben Van Beurden that the $1billion dollar take off fund for Ogoni clean up was waiting in a dedicated account, Social Action and other British and Nigeria NGOs have demanded that Shell stop playing games with the pains and misery of Ogoni people who were dying in their thousands because of non implementation of UNEP Report.

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UNITED NATIONS SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON MINORITY ISSUES IN NIGERIA, VISITS OGONI AND RUMUEKPE.

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Special Rapporteur Rita Izak, Graham Fox, Human Rights Officer and Maggreta listening to Celestine AkpoBari at a spill site in Ogoni on Tuesday 25 February, 2014.

United Nations Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues- Rita Izakand her team arrived Port Harcourt the Rivers State capital for a one-day working tour to Rumuekpe and communities in Ogoni where the marginalized and oppressed people are already grappling with the negative effects of a devastated environment and unfavorable state policies that does not protect minority rights like their language, religion and ethnicity.

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Ogonis demand Ken Saro-Wiwa University, trial of murderers of ‘Ogoni 9’

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It was another season of remembrance for the Ogoni in Rivers State, and when they did, tributes, demands and protests reeled endlessly. They had assembled at Bori, the traditional headquarters of the nationality on Sunday, November 10 to remember the killing of some of their brightest sun by an expired Nigerian military junta. The “Ogoni 9” were sent to the gallows on November 10, 1995.

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ANOTHER OIL SPILL REPORTED IN OGONI TERRITORY, TIME TO IMPLEMENT UNEP REPORT?

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Almost a month after Bodo, an Ogoni fishing community rejected a 7.5 billion Naira offer for  massive spills which sHELL accepted liability for, Bunu, another Ogoni farming community in Tai Local Government Area of Rivers State was on Wednesday 9 October 2013 thrown into a sad mood as one of sHELL’s oil facility located very close to the Rivers State Songhai farm in the community was reported to have spilled and still spill yet to be quantified volume of crude oil.

According to a statement credited to the Mayor of the Local Government Area, Hon GbenekanuKuanpie who visited the site, “the spill was attributed to a failure from one of sHELL’s an un serviced equipment in the area”

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