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WikiLeaks: NIGERIA: SHELL BRIEFS AMBASSADOR ON OIL GAS ISSUES

Viewing cable 09ABUJA259, C) NIGERIA: SHELL BRIEFS AMBASSADOR ON OIL GAS

Reference ID     Created     Released     Classification     Origin
09ABUJA259     2009-02-10 16:04     2010-12-08 21:09     SECRET//NOFORN     Embassy Abuja

VZCZCXRO7442
OO RUEHPA
DE RUEHUJA #0259/01 0411610
ZNY SSSSS ZZH
O 101610Z FEB 09
FM AMEMBASSY ABUJA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 5253
INFO RUEHZK/ECOWAS COLLECTIVE
RUEHOS/AMCONSUL LAGOS 0802
RHEBAAA/DEPT OF ENERGY WASHDC

S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 03 ABUJA 000259

NOFORN
SIPDIS

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Shell has spies in Nigerian ministries – WikiLeaks

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Thursday, 9 December 2010

Online whistleblower, WikiLeaks, has revealed that multinational oil giant, Shell, has inserted staff into all the main ministries of the Nigerian government, giving it access to politicians’ moves in the Niger Delta, the Guardian of London reports.

Ann Pickard, then Shell’s vice-president for sub-Saharan Africa, told US diplomats that Shell had seconded employees to every relevant department and so knew “everything that was being done in those ministries.”

The leaked US diplomatic cable said the unnamed executive boasted that the Nigerian government had ‘forgotten’ about the extent of Shell’s infiltration and were unaware of how much the company knew about its deliberations.
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WikiLeaks: Shell Oil Infiltrated Nigerian Gov’t

A high-ranking executive for the international Shell oil company once bragged to U.S. diplomats that the company’s employees had so well infiltrated the Nigerian government that officials had “forgotten” the level of the company’s access.


The Shell logo is seen on a flag outside a Shell gas station in Fleet, England, July 29, 2010.

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December 8, 2010 5:50 PM

A high-ranking executive for the international Shell oil company once bragged to U.S. diplomats that the company’s employees had so well infiltrated the Nigerian government that officials had “forgotten” the level of the company’s access.

Royal Dutch Shell PLC, the Anglo-Dutch oil giant, could access Nigerian politicians’ every movement from the employees it placed in the government, the Guardian newspaper of London reported on its website Wednesday evening. read more

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WikiLeaks cables: Shell’s grip on Nigerian state revealed

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US embassy cables reveal top executive’s claims that company ‘knows everything’ about key decisions in government ministries: Ann Pickard boasted that the Nigerian government had “forgotten” about the extent of Shell’s infiltration and were unaware of how much the company knew about its deliberations. The WikiLeaks disclosure was today seized on by campaigners as evidence of Shell’s vice-like grip on the country’s oil wealth.

David Smith in Lagos: Wednesday 8 December 2010 21.34 GMT

Despite billions of dollars in oil revenue, 70% of people live below the poverty line. Photograph: George Osodi/AP

The oil giant Shell claimed it had inserted staff into all the main ministries of the Nigerian government, giving it access to politicians’ every move in the oil-rich Niger Delta, according to a leaked US diplomatic cable.

The company’s top executive in Nigeria told US diplomats that Shell had seconded employees to every relevant department and so knew “everything that was being done in those ministries”. She boasted that the Nigerian government had “forgotten” about the extent of Shell’s infiltration and were unaware of how much the company knew about its deliberations. read more

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