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Amnesty International, AI, and the Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development, CEHRD, have expressed concern over claim by Shell on its efforts to clean-up Niger Delta.
The groups said they will launch a new report to expose what they claimed as Shell’s blatantly false statements about its efforts to clean up oil spills in the Niger Delta.
In a statement by the Press Officer, Amnesty International Nigeria, Mr. Eulette Ewart, the group said that despite promising to act on a 2011 United Nations Environmental Programme report exposing shocking levels of pollution caused by oil spills, the clean up was yet to happen .
Ewart noted that “as part of Amnesty International’s Clean it Up campaign the organisation is calling on Shell to fix the damage that has devastated local communities for decades.”
According to him, the new report to be entitled: ‘Shell’s broken promises’, was being published ahead of the 20th anniversary of the execution of environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, who protested the impacts of oil production in the Niger Delta.
The group expressed concern that the attempt by the Federal Government to clean up oil spills in Niger Delta will fail unless Shell Petroleum Development Company, improves its mechanism and show increased commitment in tackling the issue.