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Leburah Ganago

$15.5M SETTLEMENT: SHELL HAS ANOTHER DAY IN COURT

by Leburah Ganago

The payment by Shell, of $15.5 million dollars out of court settlement in the case of the Wiwa family and others vs Shell firmly established the oil company’s culpability in the November 10, 1995 hangings and other extra judicial executions which took place in Ogoni at the height of our struggle in the 1990s. However, what is important to the larger Ogoni community and the rest of the Niger Delta is  not the peanut “compensation” which is barely enough to pay for the cost of litigation spanning 13 years, but the vindication of our long held position that Shell is the central figure in our ordeal.   read more

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