
Mon Oct 3, 2011 6:39pm BST
* Shell funded clashing armed gangs – watchdog report
* Oil major denies it caused any human rights abuses
* Company is selling off Nigerian oil blocks
By Joe Brock
ABUJA, Oct 3 (Reuters) – An industry watchdog accused Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) on Monday of funding armed gangs in Nigeria and said this had fuelled human rights abuses in Africa’s most populous nation.
The company, the biggest operator in the West African nation’s oil industry, denied the allegations.
Platform, a London-based non-government organisation monitoring the oil and gas industry, said in a 75-page report that the Anglo-Dutch major paid government forces who have attacked, tortured and killed Nigerians living in the creeks and swamplands of the Niger Delta. read more
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