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₦98 Billion Oil Pollution Fund Stirs Controversy In Niger Delta Communities

The relative peace being enjoyed in the oil-rich Niger Delta may be under threat as some oil producing communities in the region are not happy with the delay in the payment of the alleged N98billion oil pollution compensation fund being promised by the federal government. Speaking with a cross-section of some community heads in the region they confided in The Nation that the monies were approved during the twilight of the then President Goodluck Jonathan administration and was expected to be paid by President Muhammadu Buhari after due diligence was conducted. But that was not to be as the government white paper on the payment was still gathering dust on the shelves, the community heads lamented.

Nigerian farming communities win landmark court ruling against Shell

Oil spill damage in the Niger Delta region, April 6, 2010 (Flickr/Sosialistisk Ungdom) Simon Ayafa has witnessed oil pollution in the Niger Delta region since he was 15. Now, at 35, he feels the region has been made uninhabitable by decades of oil spills. You to go the stream to fetch water and you get oil, said Ayafa, who is a parishioner at St. Paul s Catholic Church in Bodo, a fishing village that has suffered from massive oil spills. You go to the farm and the crops are damaged and cannot produce because of pollution. That is our fate here. A series of pipeline spills between 2008 and 2009 left the entire area flowing in oil. With support from Amnesty International, the community took legal action against Royal Dutch Shell. The case was settled out of court in 2015 for the equivalent of about $36.6 million, with part going to the community and the rest divided among the community s residents.

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