No Shell person or NNPC has come here in respect of the report. But as I talk to you, they are drilling. The same Nigerian Army and police that are supposed to protect the Nigerian people will carry them to go and put more benzene (into the environment). If we take laws into our hands, you hear (restiveness) and violence. The accusations have been put before Shell in an email for weeks, but the company did not respond.
Plunder and Pollution
Rivers without water
Ugheivwen Kingdom: 50 years of Shell exploitation and environmental destruction
Children carrying water near gas flares at Shell`s Obigbo oilfield, near Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
By Kenneth Mukoro
The Ugheivwen Kingdom has been a recipient of various peaceful awards but nothing can be shown for 50 Years of Oil Exploration and our environment has been destroyed .
Shell company operating in the Ugheivwen Kingdom host to the Utorogu Gas plant and the Gas Plant Phase 2 and uncountable numbers of well head and flow stations is neglecting the people while destroying the land without any compensation. Shell has been operating in the kingdom for 50 years but nothing can be said of development or infrastructure.