19 JUN

Shell signs surveillance deal with Ogoni, denies plot to resume oil production

SHELL Petroleum Development Company has said its signing of multimillion dollar pipeline surveillance contract with some Ogoni communities in Rivers State, is not a plot to resume oil production there.

The company which was forced to shut its operational activities in Ogoni in 1993 following an uprising by local communities protesting against environmental degradation, said the implementation of the United Nations Environment Programme on Ogoni is being handled by the Federal Government of Nigeria.

Shell’s General Manager (Onshore) Mr. Grezgeorz Kulawski and the General Manager, Sustainable Development and Community relations, Nebo Osayande, told journalists in Port Harcourt that the pipeline surveillance contract, is part of an initiative to combat crude oil theft in Ogoniland. They revealed that in 2013 alone, Shell recorded 49 incidents of crude oil theft in Ogoniland, resulting in crude oil not delivered and a lost of huge revenue to the federation. Continue reading…

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HURAC is a club instituted by the Movement For the Survival of the Ogoni People, which is open to all secondary schools within and outside Ogoni and also to all intending members. It`s currently operating in Riv-Poly secondary school, its division HQTRS, and also in CSS Bori, ACGS Bori, BMGS Bori and some Portharcourt schools. It has Kate, Wisdom Deebeke as its pioneer Senior Chief Co-ordinator. It was inaugurated in Riv-Poly by the INTELLECTUAL ELITE BATCH, with Tuaka Jeremiah as the appointed Chairman as at then. It aims at educating members and the public on their fundamental human rights, human rights advocacy, human rights abuses and campaign, etc. To learn more about HURAC, please go to http://huraclub.org/.