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Ogoni Establishes Environmental Protection Agency

Dec 26th, 2011
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Graphics from Guardian newspaper article: Unloveable Shell, the Goddess of Oil

PRESS STATEMENT ISSUED BY MOSOP: 26 December 2011

A measure to make sure that Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Royal Dutch/Shell and others face compelling action to hold them accountable for environmental crimes in Ogoni.

MOSOP President and Spokesman, Dr. Goodluck Diigbo said that the Ogoni people have learnt the hardest lesson that it was not the wisest thing to do, to allow petroleum operations in Ogoni without a formal Environmental Impact Assessment Study (EIAS).

He said other relevant companies must be required to conduct EIAS to merit continual operations in Ogoni.

Dr. Diigbo said this today, 24th December, 2011 during a MOSOP inter-kingdom assembly held at Akpajo, Eleme near Port Harcourt. He, then, announced the establishment of an Ogoni Environmental Protection Agency (OGEPA), headed by Mr. John Lar-Wisa.

Lar-Wisa, currently serves as Secretary of Amnesty International Group 17 in Nigeria and has nearly 20 years of community and public service. Earlier in the week, Lar-Wisa’s appointment had been debated and approved by a joint-meeting of elected village councilors and MOSOP Central Assembly.

“As a people, the Ogoni who depend upon cultures, spiritual traditions, histories and philosophies, especially our rights to lands, territories and resources for political, economic and social survival, we cannot wait for another 25 – 30 years.

The Ogoni people cannot fold their hands and hope that one day, the NNPC (Nigerian government oil company), Royal Dutch/Shell and Chevron will knock at our doors to accept responsibility for devastation of our land,; without significant and compelling action by the Ogoni people,” Diigbo remarked.

According to Dr. Diigbo, the task of OGEPA is to coordinate efforts to protect the inherent rights and means of livelihood of the Ogoni people, ensure healthy and safer environment.

He stated that OGEPA will collaborate with similar institutions, the Ogoni Central Indigenous Authority (OCIA) and nongovernmental organizations worldwide.

“With its three-tier operational strategy, OGEPA will cooperate with its sub-committees at the village, kingdom and central levels to make sure that Ogonis do not engage in activities detrimental to the environment,” Diigbo said.

The 21 member agency has Chief Nwakaji Ngei of Ogale village in Eleme Kingdom as the Deputy Administrator.

Prior to his appointment by the Central Assembly of MOSOP, Lar-Wisa coordinated the Ogoni team that monitored the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) Ogoni Environmental Assessment, led by Mr. Mike Cowing.

Lar-Wisa had initiated international dialogue and shared information on due process as he had tried to persuade Cowing and his UNEP colleagues to comply with the UNEP, World Bank and Nigerian guidelines for conduct of EIAS.

Lar-Wisa has also worked as design and draughtsman/engineer with NISSCO Ltd, Warri; Naval Draughtsman with Witt & Busch (Shipyard) Ltd., PH., senior CAD Designer with Point Engineering, PH, Field Engineer with Aveon Offshore Ltd., PH. Sec., NUPENG – NISSCO, Assistant Secretary of PENGASSAN – NISSCO and assistant secretary of Bori State Movement and in several other capacities.

John Lar-Wisa who holds a Certificate in Civil Engineering and Bachelor of Science degree Political Science will oversee activities of OGEPA.

All the elected village councilors under the newly created Ogoni Central Indigenous Authority (OCIA) will sit on the village boards of OGEPA.

Tambari Deekor
Associate Editor, MOSOP Media
tdeekor88@gmail.com

Most or All Kiobel v. Shell Plaintiffs Are American Citizens

Nov 24th, 2011
by John Donovan.
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Graphic from the Guardian article “Unloveable Shell, the Goddess of Oil“

Dear Editor,

Please run article clarifying the location of Ogoni people in Kiobel v. Shell. This issue was brought up in one recent publication of Nov. 17, 2011, posted or culled to your credible and number one globally read and researched-based Website.

THE ARTICLE: How Suing Shell Could Backfire on Human Rights Activists

Thank you.

Sincerely,
Ben Ikari.

ARTICLE

I read with interest a publication by Reuters that is published on this esteemed Website: Royaldutchshellplc.com and dated November 17, 2011. As recorded on paragraph nine, lines six and seven. According to Maria LaHood, “Indigenous Ogoni people, most of whom probably live in  villages in rural Nigeria, are challenging one of the most powerful entities in the world.”

Although LaHood meant no harm but well. I wish to state categorically clear for the records that  all members of the  indigenous Ogoni nationality challenging $hell in the Kiobel, et al v. Royal Dutch Shell case, before the United States Supreme Court (USSC) are currently living in the United States of America, though these crimes were committed against them in Ogoni. Most or all of these plaintiffs have been in the United States for more than 12 years.

In short, most if not all of the plaintiffs are American citizens who are law abiding and are actively involved in the socioeconomic and political development of this great country. Meanwhile, one impression the Reuters report I wish to correct, is that the Ogoni movement, MOSOP is a political movement. Another is that this case, which has lasted for 9 years (2002 to 2011) has been ongoing for 15 years.

To remove all doubts, MOSOP is a nongovernmental, nonpolitical, and nonreligious, but cultural, human rights and environmental grassroots organization. Also, the population count of Ogoni, by the report, of  500,000 is not the current figure, rather a 1963 census head count. Ogoni is currently about 2 million people.

Having said the above, it is true as LaHood is credited that “corporations don’t like it.” That is, the fact that Ogonis who came from far away Africa are now in America challenging their misdeeds. This is something that was unheard of decades back…the world is changing fast as these corporations can see. And that international human rights, including, aiding and abetting, torture and genocide, even environmental oilnocide are changing the way we think or do things-governmental operations and business, especially.

Though “they don’t want to be held accountable for how they behave in developing countries,” said LaHood. They have no option but act responsibly or be held accountable for their actions or behavior in these ethnic groups they have been conspiring with national governments to extinct.

Consequently, those analyzing the Kiobel case should therefore endeavor to treat these issues not as affecting some remote Ogonis in Africa, rather as Ogoni-Americans or American-Ogonis demonstrating what those similarly situated went through at home. The common denominator should not be who are those filing this suit?

It should rather, be whether a multinational corporation, $hell known, for its numerous atrocious and unethical business practices for profit, is complicit with the evidence, in the crimes of aiding and abetting. Whether it is liable for torture, wrongful death, arbitrary arrest and detention, among other charges-especially as they fall within the scope of U.S. Alien Tort Statute (ATS) of 1789.

The discussions of the very honorable legal mind Paul Hoffman, attorney for plaintiffs, who also argued Sosa before the Supreme Court, Kyleen Hartman, Chime’ne Keitner and Deirdre Lapin, are sound and relevant, informational and directional to the issues at stake. These are issues that are not new to American courts as Paquete Habana v. United States, Sosa v.  Alvarez-Machain, and Presbyterian Church of Sudan v. Talisman Energy, Inc. shows.

Those who may support deadly corporate methods, so long as oil and other products or goods and services are coming into the Western world for better life may do so to trivializing international corporate crimes against defenseless peoples. One thing I know is clear, is if the owners and employees of these corporations and their supporters were on the receiving end like Ogonis and other oppressed.

If they have a place such as America and other Western countries with such laws prohibiting and seeking justice for victims against these companies.  Or if those corporations from other countries with substantial business presence, such as $hell are also held liable as a way of curbing the fragrant violation of human rights elsewhere with impunity. They will not hesitate applying such laws wherever they could be found. So this case and maybe others that may be ongoing and those that may emerge should be seen with jurisprudential and humane eyes.

Because “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,” according to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and the need to show sympathy to those living where some of the good things that helps make life better in the west came from. And because laws such as Alien Tort Statute or Act addresses violations of the “law of nations,” which kiobel depends and Wiwa v. Royal Dutch Shell succeeded with. Because who wears the shoes know where they hurt.

It is hoped that reporters and commentators who have been doing incredible job reporting and analyzing Kiobel and Wiwa v. Shell, respectively will do so with justice as the baseline and not whether the Ogoni plaintiffs are in Ogoni, Africa, because they are not.

As mentioned inter alia, most if not all of the bold and brave soldiers of freedom, fundamental human rights and justice, are citizens of the United States of America working hard to sending a clear message to would- be violators. That is, the days of corporate immunity in egregious crimes outside the west (crimes they will not commit at home) are gone.

Finally, can we imagine the recent UNEP report on Ogoni, an environmental catastrophe or time-bomb $hell in collaboration with the Nigerian government wanted to hide? A crime revealed by Ken Saro-Wiwa, who was killed for not withdrawing his campaign against the company. And how $hell is cleaning the valleys in Britain, its home country where it also prospects for oil and the better treatment it gives the Shetlanders, who are also in Britain! Enough environmental racism causing the deaths of innocent Ogonis?

$hell and any corporation involved in these crimes thinking they will hide under the cloak of corporations as individuals or private entities within domestic legal system, should know henceforth that they shall be held accountable if in violation of the law of nations as legal  tradition or precedent in America has also shown.

No corporate liability will be tantamount to more corporate and states’ torture (aiding and abetting) and genocide among other egregious crimes with which $hell is charged. As conscious world citizens, we must not let $hell and others kill again, as we hold them accountable!

MOSOP CLAIMS: A SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA

Nov 11th, 2011
by John Donovan.
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Diigbo, who was speaking today at the Ken Saro-Wiwa Peace and Freedom Center, to mark 16th Remembrance of the hanging of the Ogoni leader, late Ken Saro-Wiwa said the setting up of the Ogoni Central Indigenous Authority is a significant step towards actualizing the UN Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Ogoni Bill of Rights, and all the dreams for which late Saro-Wiwa and other Ogonis gave their lives.

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Ogoni Leader Welcomes U.S. Supreme Court Decision on Shell Case

Oct 18th, 2011
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Movement for Survival of Ogoni People president Ledum Mitee says the court’s decision sends a message that Shell must be held to account

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The president of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People [MOSOP] said his group welcomes the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to hear a dispute between the Ogoni people and Royal Dutch Shell Oil Company.

The high court justices agreed Monday to hear a federal appeal by a group of Nigerians who alleged that shell was complicit in torture, wrongful deaths and other human rights abuses committed by Nigerian authorities against environmental campaigners during the 1990s.

MOSOP President Ledum Mitee said the decision sends the right message that Shell must be held to account.

“It is quite a refreshing news coming at this time, and I think it sends the right message that clearly, even though there have been delays in getting there, but at least we can see light at the end of the tunnel that someday Shell will be held to account,” he said.

Mitee said the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision also comes at an opportune time, especially as the Ogoni people prepare to commemorate the anniversary of the death of writer and human rights activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa, has been executed in Nigeria despite worldwide pleas for clemency.

Nigeria’s military rulers in 1995 ordered the execution of Saro-Wiwa and eight other dissidents after being found guilty of involvement in four murders.

Saro-Wiwa said at his trial that the case was designed to prevent members of his tribe, the Ogoni, from stopping pollution of their homeland and getting a fair share of oil profits.

“In the next three weeks or so we will be talking about the anniversary of the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and the other Ogoni martyrs, and one of the things he [Saro-Wiwa] said was that the day of Shell will come where they will be held to account. And so coming at this time is quite a refreshing and encouraging news for us,” he said.

Mitee said the Ogoni people’s only wish is for Royal Dutch Shell to be made to pay whatever damages are due the Ogoni people for the degradation of their environment.

He expressed regrets that successive Nigerian governments have failed to listen to the non-violent voices of the Ogoni people.

“Recently the United Nations environmental program released a report in which government asked to commit themselves to do certain things to at least clean up the Ogoni environment. But as I speak nothing has been heard from the government,” he said.

Shell has denied all allegations, including that it enlisted the help of the Nigerian armed forces to suppress resistance to oil exploration in Ogoni land.

Mitee said Shell’s continued denial can only prolong the Ogoni people’s agony.

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ROYAL DUTCH/SHELL PARTNER IN CRIME OF NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT SAYS MOSOP

Sep 18th, 2011
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NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT PRIMARILY HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL TRAGEDY IN OGONILAND, WHILE ROYAL DUTCH/SHELL IS A PARTNER IN CRIME: Says MOSOP. 17 September 2011

A MOSOP Committee set up on the 18th of August, 2011 by MOSOP President/Spokesman, Dr. Goodluck Diigbo to review the Nigerian Government threat that: “Pollution or no pollution, oil production will go on in Ogoniland as already planned,” submitted its report at a MOSOP General Assembly Meeting at Nonwa on Friday, 16th September, 2011. The Committee Report holds the Nigerian Government primarily responsible for the environmental tragedy in Ogoniland, saying that the Royal Dutch/Shell is a partner in crime. The Committee, which included representatives of ten affiliates of MOSOP, recommended what it calls “justifiable stiffer resistance,” against attempts to seize lands or resume oil production in Ogoniland. The resistance package includes use of tactics to protect Ogonis, their families and property against physical attack. The tactics are part of the indigenous Ogoni customary and traditional law, designed to prevent desecration of ancestral lands and sacred sites.

The Group General Manager of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Levi Ajuonuma in an interview with This Day, a Nigerian newspaper on Sunday, August 14, 2011 had suggested that irrespective of a damning UNEP Ogoniland report that it would take 30 years to clean up, oil production will go on in Ogoniland. MOSOP General Assembly said the Ogoni people will cooperate with relevant United Nations agencies, especially the United Nations Trusteeship Council to implement any acceptable UNEP Ogoniland Assessment Report. The Trusteeship Council was formed in 1945 to oversee decolonization to help ensure that trust territories were administered in the best interests of their inhabitants and of international peace and security. The Ogoni people will reject direct or indirect involvement of the federal, State or local governments in Nigeria.

Answering some questions, MOSOP President/Spokesman, Dr. Goodluck Diigbo maintained: “I have read various articles and reports attempting comparison between the Ogoni environmental tragedy and the U.S. blowout. The oil there bubbled up from the floor of the Gulf of Mexico when the Transocean Deepwater Horizon rig caught fire on April 20, 2010 and sank two days later. President Barack Obama swiftly responded and decisively.  In Nigeria, 55 years went by. No single cup of clean water has been provided in the entire Ogoniland with over 1.2 million people. The Nigerian Government still doesn’t see the tragedy in Ogoniland, as a human tragedy. All that the Nigerian government sees and wants the Ogoni people to have is the Hobson’s choice; only one option: To allow for oil production, or be hanged to death. The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is the most senior partner in the Petroleum Industry in Nigeria and it is owned 100 percent by the Nigerian Government.”

On the issue of liability: “I thought about operational and technological responsibility. Nigeria should have insisted that oil companies fully comply with environmental best international practices, including UNEP and UNCTAD basic standards. The government made a choice to conspire and collaborate with its partners in crime, including Shell. I have asked for a meeting of all stakeholders to collectively look at the UNEP Ogoniland Assessment Report in order to draw up a road-map on the way forward. Nigeria is faced with so many unsolved problems, now complicated by threat to international peace and security. It will be difficult to talk about addressing the Ogoni situation by first excluding the Ogoni people. No one knows the problems of the Ogoni people than the Ogoni people as represented by MOSOP – the collective voice of the Ogoni people.”

Tambari Deekor
Associate Editor, MOSOP Media
tdeekor88@gmail.com

MOSOP URGES BISHOP KUKAH TO END CORRUPTION IN NIGERIA

Sep 8th, 2011
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STATEMENT ISSUED BY MOSOP (Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People)

8 September 2011

MOSOP URGES Dr. GOODLUCK JONATHAN’ PRESIDENTIAL COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN TO END CORRUPTION IN NIGERIA.

In a congratulatory message today to Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, MOSOP President/Spokesman, Dr. Goodluck Diigbo implored Bishop Kukah on his installation as the Bishop of Sokoto Diocese to champion the cause to end corruption in Nigeria and to promote economic and political justice.

Dr. said: “In your capacity as Chairman of the Ogoni –Shell Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation Presidential Committee, I implore you to use your new position to work towards the meeting of minds in the Ogoni situation, in a way that can usher in peace and promote economic and political justice in Nigeria.

In addition, I further implore you to champion the cause to end corruption, misrule, internal colonialism and arrogance of power in Nigeria. The Ogoni people are staying strong, and we will continue to count on your support.The history of Christianity reminds us that Christianity was officially persecuted for three centuries. The same history tells us that Roman Christianity is the mother of Western civilization. The Ogoni people are full of hopes and dreams that the day is coming when the Ogoni story will become the story of Christianity and Western civilization.”

The full Statement is reproduced below:

Dear Rt. Rev. Msgr Matthew Hassan Kukah,

I write to congratulate you for the great rise on your episcopal ordination and installation as Bishop of Sokoto Diocese today, Thursday, September 8, 2011 following your recent elevation by His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI.

On behalf of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, MOSOP, I thank God for your lift. God remains the greatest judge. God puts down one, and lifts up another.

In your capacity as Chairman of the Ogoni –Shell Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation Presidential Committee, I implore you to use your new position to work towards the meeting of minds in the Ogoni situation, in a way that can usher in peace and promote economic and political justice in Nigeria. In addition, I further implore you to champion the cause to end corruption, misrule, internal colonialism and arrogance of power in Nigeria. The Ogoni people are staying strong, and we will continue to count on your support.

The history of Christianity reminds us that Christianity was officially persecuted for three centuries. The same history tells us that Roman Christianity is the mother of Western civilization.

The Ogoni people are full of hopes and dreams that the day is coming when the Ogoni story will become the story of Christianity and Western civilization.

Dr. Goodluck Diigbo
MOSOP President/Spokesman

Released by:
Tambari Deekor
Assist. Editor, MOSOP Media
tdeekor88@gmail.com

The Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) is an Ogoni-based non-governmental, non-political apex organisation of the Ogoni ethnic minority people of South-Eastern Nigeria and was founded in 1990 with the mandate to campaign non-violently to:

• Promote democratic awareness;

• Protect the environment of the Ogoni People;

• Seek social, economic and physical development for the region;

• Protect the cultural rights and practices of the Ogoni people; and

• Seek appropriate rights of self-determination for the Ogoni people.

MOSOP to explore whether Dutch law can provide justice for the Ogoni people

Sep 6th, 2011
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MOSOP WANTS THE TRUTH IN A DUTCH-NIGERIAN ACTIVIST TERRORIST CHARGE

The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, MOSOP says it is treating the case of Mr. Sunny Ofehe in The Netherlands with the basic principle of law that an accused remains innocent, until proven guilty.

In an online statement, MOSOP President /Spokesman, Dr. Goodluck Diigbo said the responsibility in the dispensation of justice does not end with the accused, but that the prosecutor has obligation to discharge its duty in a transparent manner that will protect the sanctity of the Dutch Law and the diplomatic respect that The Netherlands enjoys as an openly democratic society and the host of several important international institutions, including the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court.

Dr. Diigbo said although he had not met Mr. Ofehe in person, he has read about him online, but that MOSOP as a responsible organization withholds any judgment on the matter and will keep track of the proceedings to the end.

The other side of this case is that MOSOP will in the future explore how the Dutch Law can provide justice for the Ogoni people.

In reaction to inquiries as to whether Shell was behind the case, Dr. Diigbo said that MOSOP has not established any direct link, but that the charges clearly link it with oil pipelines in Nigeria, where Shell has operated for decades. It is not known to MOSOP at the moment whether or not the charges have any direct connection with the pressure being put on Shell by the recent United Nations Environmental Programme, UNEP- Ogoniland Assessment Report, 2011.

Instead to jump to all kinds of conclusion, individuals and groups interested in the Ofehe case should not only show serious concern by issuing statements, but to demonstrate support and active diligence in the pursuit of the truth and to ensure that justice prevails at the end, Diigbo remarked.

Tambari Deekor
Assist Editor
MOSOP Media

MOSOP DISASSOCIATES ITSELF FROM STATEMENT BY LEDUM MITEE ON UNEP OGONILAND REPORT

Aug 15th, 2011
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The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People MOSOP hereby disassociates itself from a Statement purportedly issued by former MOSOP President, Mr. Ledum Mitee on the UNEP Ogoniland Report, stipulating 30 days ultimatum for action on the UNEP Ogoniland report.

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UNEP OGONILAND ASSESSMENT REPORT IS SOWING SEEDS OF CONFLICTS AND WAR

Aug 12th, 2011
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STATEMENT ISSUED BY MOSOP: 12 August 2011 21:46:01 GMT+01:00

The Movement for Survival of Ogoni People, MOSOP, speaking through its President /Spokesman, Dr. Goodluck Diigbo has said that UNEP Ogoniland Assessment Report was already building up tension in Ogoniland and sowing seeds of inter and intra communal conflicts and war.

Diigbo said that the two Bodo oil spills reported in The Guardian, London published on August 3, 2011 for which Shell was said to have  admitted responsibility for (involving hundreds of millions of dollars), are in Gokana of Ogoniland, but the UNEP Ogoni Report states that the two oil spills are in Bolo and Ogu local government area, which is outside Ogoniland.

“Bodo West is officially mapped as belonging to Ogu/Bolo LGA but since there are no local settlements, it has been regarded by both SPDC and the Ogoni people as part of the Ogoniland oil facilities. Bodo West was therefore included in the scope of UNEP’s work,” says the report.

Dr. Goodluck Diigbo points out: “This is a tricky clause in the report, which can create confusion and grounds for the usual excuse by Shell not to fulfill its obligation to the Bodo people. I think this is why a critical review of the report is imperative because it is already sowing seeds of conflicts within and between the Ogoni people and their neighbors. I hope that others would not claim what is not theirs, but an early intervention by the United Nations and other NGOs that are interested in conducting an independent review can be helpful. Although there are six kingdoms and two administrative units and over 200 villages in Ogoniland, yet, the UNEP report names one traditional ruler as the overall paramount ruler of Ogoniland. Other traditional rulers believe the report is troublesome. A careful review will prove to the United Nations and the rest of the world that the UNEP Ogoniland Report was not handled with due diligence, but that it still can provide a way forward. At the moment, Shell has not refuted that our statement that it paid for the report. Why is it so difficult to hold those that paid for the UNEP report accountable for oil damages in Ogoniland, since it is the practice that the polluter pays for EIAS?”

On Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at a General Assembly Meeting in Bori, Ogoniland which was addressed by the Council of Ogoni Traditional Rulers Association, COTRA, which is an affiliate of MOSOP, the Vice Chairman, Chief Letam Teenwi explained that after three days of study of the UNEP report, COTRA resolved to uphold the MOSOP Statement earlier signed by MOSOP President /Spokesman, Dr. Goodluck Diigbo calling for urgent review.

Teenwi called for international support to avert tragedy alluded to by the report, adding that a review would provide a unique opportunity to discuss the full spectrum of international law relating to indigenous peoples rights as they affect the report, including environmental, economic, political and social rights.

The native rulers briefing was attended by representatives of all Federation of Ogoni Women Association, National Youth Council of Ogoni People, Ogoni Teachers Union, Council of Ogoni Churches, Farmers Association of Ogoni, Ogoni Technical Association, National Union of Ogoni Students, Ogoni Students Union (drawn from primary and secondary schools), Council of Ogoni Professionals and others.

Signed by:

Dum Ade John Budam
MOSOP Secretary-General

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Shell counts five pipeline fires in Ogoni this year, begins repair

Oct 20th, 2008
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Embattled Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) says it has just fought off the fifth pipeline fire in the troubled Ogoni axis of Rivers State from where it was forced to pull out about 15 years ago, leading to the cancellation of its oil bloc licences in the area.

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