Renewal Of Shell’s Mining Rights, Insult On Our Dignity —MOSOP

The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), has described the alleged renewal of Shell Petroleum Development Company’s mining rights in Ogoni as shocking and an insult on the collective dignity of the Ogoni people.
Publicity Secretary of MOSOP, Mr Fegalo Nsuke, who spoke, yesterday, in Bori, headquarters of Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State, where he addressed a cross section of Ogoni women, noted that “Shell had prosecuted an ecological war against the Ogoni people for over 50 years, sponsored Nigerian soldiers to abuse and trample on the rights of the people, refused to clean-up the lands polluted by the company’s business practices, and therefore, does not deserve to return to Ogoniland for oil mining.”
The MOSOP spokesperson said the conduct of Shell in Ogoni was a shame, and urged President Muhammadu Buhari to demonstrate his government’s intolerance for corporate irresponsibility by throwing out Shell from Ogoni and getting the company to pay for the well-established abuses in Ogoniland.
Nsuke added: “The news of President Buharis approval of Shell’s mining lease for OML 11 smacks insensitivity to the Ogoni predicament and confirms the intent of government to resume oil production in the area without first cleaning previous mess and address the issues raised by the Ogoni people, including the demand for political rights to self determination, the protection of the Ogoni environment and other demands as contained in the Ogoni Bill of Rights.