{"id":14017,"date":"2017-04-11T22:03:37","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T22:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=14017"},"modified":"2017-04-11T22:03:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T22:03:37","slug":"shell-stuck-in-greasy-opl-245-deal-with-malabu-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=14017","title":{"rendered":"SHELL STUCK IN GREASY OPL 245 DEAL WITH MALABU OIL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The shocking news that all previous claims by Shell that they did nothing wrong with the highly contentious OPL 245 oil bloc deals were false hit Nigerians yesterday. Global Witness noted that in a statement to the New York Times, Shell\u2019s Vice President for Global Media Relations, agreed that, \u201cOver time, it became clear to us that Etete was involved in Malabu and that the only way to resolve the impasse through a negotiated settlement was to engage with Etete and Malabu, whether we liked it or not\u201d. He added Shell knew that the Nigerian government \u201cwould compensate Malabu to settle its claim on the block\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><code><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<p>According to a statement by Cadmus Atake-Enade, HOMEF Project officer, Fossil Politics, this momentous development happened because of intensive campaigns and research by Global Witness including the unearthing of some of Shell\u2019s private emails on the deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver time, before time, or after time, is not the issue here,\u201d notes Nnimmo Bassey, director of the ecological think tank, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF). \u201cGetting the truth about deals, extent of oil pollution and sundry human rights issues in Nigeria has always been a hide-and-seek game. The company only admits wrongdoing when boxed into a corner. The admittance by Shell of knowingly participating in the huge OPL 245 oil scandal opens a new chapter in the understanding of exploitation without responsibility in the Nigerian oil sector,\u201d Bassey added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Shell.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14018\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Shell-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Shell-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Shell-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Shell-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Shell.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>HOMEF recalls that over the years as questions were raised on the Malibu oil case, Shell stuck to the claim that its payments on the deal were only to the Nigerian government. With the revelation that such claims were false, the searchlight now turns squarely on the Nigerian government. The world waits to see what sanctions the Nigerian government will impose on Shell and all accomplices in this scandal.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=12838&amp;ad_type=59&amp;rl=180\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis development validates our conviction that the petroleum sector in Nigeria is extremely opaque and that the Nigerian people and the environment are perpetual victims while corporations and officers holding positions of public trust flourish in graft and wickedness,\u201d sums up Comrade Che Ibegwura, a veteran Niger Delta activist and community organiser.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shocking news that all previous claims by Shell that they did nothing wrong with the highly contentious OPL 245 oil bloc deals were false hit Nigerians yesterday. Global Witness noted that in a statement to the New York Times, Shell\u2019s Vice President for Global Media Relations, agreed that, \u201cOver time, it became clear to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[3689,3690,3688,201,251,3178],"class_list":["post-14017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","tag-cadmus-atake-enade","tag-che-ibegwura","tag-malabu","tag-niger-delta","tag-nnimmo-bassey","tag-royal-dutch-shell"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Shell.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-3E5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14019,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14017\/revisions\/14019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}