Niger Delta Groups accuse Shell of unfair practices, threaten action

 

Some Niger Delta groups have raised the alarm that peace may once more become elusive in the area unless the federal government moved in to check plots to shunt their people out of oil businesses.

In an open letter to President Goodluck Jonathan, the groups said that Shell Petroleum Development Company had engineered a means of blocking their people from concessions in the oil and gas business by insisting they would only deal with those that had done business with them whereas the region had been denied such opportunities.

The petition which was signed by Chairman, South-South Youth Leaders Forum, Amb. Odiedim Amachree; Chairman, Coalition of Niger Delta Ethnic Nationalities & President, Rivers State Youth Federation Comrade Adokiye Majito; President Federation Union of Ogoni  Youths Worldwide, Amb. Kenule Nwiya; President, Edo Youth Council, Aluyah Dauda Okoduah and Spokesperson, Ijaw Lawyers Association, Mr. Kelvin Zige warned of dire consequences should the injustice not be reversed.