Bonga Oil Spills, Clean Up Our Environment Now, Impacted Host Communities Tells Shell

Bonga Oil Spills, Clean Up Our Environment Now, Impacted Host Communities Tells Shell

As Jalla Assures Impacted Communities Of Victory At Court By September 2019

Francis Tayor

Victims of Bonga Oil Spills negatively impacted Communities in the Niger Delta South-South Nigeria, has called on Royal Dutch Shell and its subsidiaries to  commence the Clean-up, Rectification,Restoration, Compensation and damages occasioned by the December 20th, 2011 Bonga Oil Spills in their environment.

The over 170,000 Fishers persons and over 350 Communities along the Nigeria Coast line between Bayelsa and Delta States that where negatively impacted by Bonga Oil Spills said, the call became necessary having adduced our evidence beyond every reasonable doubt before the English Court.

Speaking at the Press Conference in Warri today, the Executive Director of the Oil Spill Victims Vanguard ( OSPIVV), Harrison Jalla  assures representatives of various communities of clear victory at court by September this year for Shell to commence  compensation payment of negatively impacted persons and communities.

According to Mr.Jalla said, " Since the 21st of September 2017, l have filed a suit through my lawyers John & Steller Solicitors of Hanover Square Mayfair London, against Royal Dutch Shell in respect of the above action. I did this on behalf of several thousands of persons and over 350 Communities impacted by the Bonga Oil Spill of December 20th 2011, when Royal Dutch Shell and its subsidiaries Shell international trading and Shipping Company (SNEPCO) out of gross negligence in their Bonga field operations discharge over 40,000 Barrels of crude oil into the Atlantic Ocean."

" Mr.Jalla further stressed that, the pollution from this discharge covered a distance of over 185 Kilometers along the Nigeria Coastline that compelled  fisher persons to desert the sea, polluted farm lands, vegetation, and contaminated the environment in Ekeremo, Southern Ijaw, Brass Local Government Areas,  Warri South-West, Warri North, Burutu and some Riverine areas in Bayelsa, Delta and Ondo States. I want to assures that the ongoing action is to compel Royal Dutch Shell and its Subsidiaries to do the Cleanup,Rectification,  Restoration, Compensation and damages caused by the negative impact of December 20th 2011,he stated."

However, it will interest you to note that, Oil Spill Victims Vanguard (OSPIVV) is a Niger Delta based non-governmental organization (NGO), an initiative dedicated to the pursuits of the rights for compensation of victims and communities of oil spills