Divergent views have continued to trail Friday’s verdict by a Dutch court that found Shell liable for pollution of farmlands and fish ponds of four farmers in the Niger Delta.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that a Dutch court on Friday had ordered the Nigerian subsidiary of Shell, to pay compensation over the 2008 oil spills in Oruma, Bayelsa, Goi in Rivers and Ikot Ada Udo, in Akwa Ibom.
NAN recalls that four farmers had dragged Shell to a Dutch court over a 2008 oil spillage that adversely affected their farms
The Court of Appeal in The Hague, ruled that the Nigerian arm of the British-Dutch company, SPDC should compensate the four farmers and undertake a clean-up of pollution, from its leaking oil pipelines and install anti leak devices on them.