{"id":4353,"date":"2015-02-09T19:02:57","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T19:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=4353"},"modified":"2015-02-09T19:02:57","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T19:02:57","slug":"shell-belema-oil-deal-an-affront-on-the-ogoni-struggle-erafoen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=4353","title":{"rendered":"Shell Belema Oil Deal: An Affront on the Ogoni Struggle \u2013 ERA\/FoEN"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"shell\"<\/a>The Environmental Rights Action\/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA\/FoEN) has raised the alarm following reports that Shell may be attempting to thwart the recommended cleanup of Ogoniland through\u00a0 a deal with a local company called Belema Oil.<\/div>\n
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A statement by ERA head of media, Mr. Phillip Jakpor said, Shell was said to have sold its oil blocks in Ogoniland to Belema oil, and drilling was set to commence soon as the company had reached agreement with some community chiefs who were being used to collate signatures endorsing\u00a0the sale of the oil in Ogoniland.<\/div>\n
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Some top Shell officials are believed to have strong links with the company.<\/div>\n
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Community sources also revealed that that some Ogoni community leaders were recently flown to Lagos to hold secret meetings on the oil block sale and may have been\u00a0compromised\u00a0after which they received documents with which to collect signatures from the Ogoni people as consent to the sale of Ogoni Oil.<\/div>\n
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ERA\/FoEN Executive Director, Godwin Uyi Ojo said: \u201cThis is another deception coming from the stable of Shell.\u00a0This divisive experiment is a serious affront on the peaceful Ogoni struggle for environmental justice and targeted at causing confusion so as to create a window of escape for Shell to evade\u00a0its responsibilities in the clean-up of Ogoniland. We totally oppose this\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u201cBelema Oil is Shell\u2019s new ploy to betray the Ogoni cause. It is intended to stymie the communities\u2019 collective bargaining power. We align with Movement for Solidarity for the Ogoni People (MOSOP) and other Ogoni groups that believe that only an Ogoni Congress can speak for the people who are yet to fully recover from the years of untold hardship visited on them by Shell and the federal government of Nigeria\u201d.<\/div>\n
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Ojo said that Ogoni oil must remain underground as a global metaphor for leaving the oil in the soil due to its environmental and social destruction, toll on human life, and as a response to climate change.<\/div>\n
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The ERA\/FoEN boss asked that Shell be stopped from evading the implementation of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) report and urged to commence immediate clean up and remediation of the Niger Delta by the establishment of $100 billion dollars restoration fund.<\/div>\n
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\u201cShell must be held accountable for the decades\u00a0of its environmental human rights abuses in Ogoni and the entire Niger Delta. Aside halting this backdoor deal, officials of the company said to have a stake in Belema Oil must also be investigated to determine how much they have done to frustrate the implementation of the UNEP report through their Shell-run oil company that seeks to put potential profit first before people and the environment,\u201d Ojo insisted.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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