Royal Dutch Shell has
failed to halt production at the Gbaran Ubie oil and gas facility in
southern Nigeria, contravening a court order for the site to be sealed
and raising the prospect of legal action, state government officials
said on Wednesday.
A Reuters reporter spoke to workers at the plant who also said
production had continued.
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A Shell spokesman declined to comment.
The facility, in the oil-rich southern Niger Delta region, supplies the
Bonny liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal and also helps
generate electricity, which is scarce in Africa's top oil producer and
most populous nation.
On Monday, the Bayelsa state government said the premises had been
sealed up for operating without a permit and staff had been evicted.
But on Wednesday, Bayelsa state spokesperson Francis Agbo said Shell had
"flouted the court order" and production had not ceased. "There is
ongoing work in the facility in clear violation of the court order," he
said.
Boro Ige-Edaba, executive secretary of the state's Physical Planning and
Development Board, said Bayelsa's state government would "take
appropriate action to prosecute them".
Shell launched the facility in 2010 with an initial planned output of
one-billion standard cubic feet of gas per day and up to 70 000 barrels
per day (bpd) of oil from 2011.
It aimed to boost output to 1.3-trillion standard cubic feet by adding
more wells, Shell's website said.
Residents in the Delta have long complained about oil spills and
widespread poverty despite the region being home to much of Nigeria's
oil production, which contributes about 70 percent of national income.
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Royal Dutch Shell has
failed to halt production at the Gbaran Ubie oil and gas facility in
southern Nigeria, contravening a court order for the site to be sealed
and raising the prospect of legal action, state government officials
said on Wednesday.
A Reuters reporter spoke to workers at the plant who also said
production had continued.
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A Shell spokesman declined to comment.
The facility, in the oil-rich southern Niger Delta region, supplies the
Bonny liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal and also helps
generate electricity, which is scarce in Africa's top oil producer and
most populous nation.
On Monday, the Bayelsa state government said the premises had been
sealed up for operating without a permit and staff had been evicted.
But on Wednesday, Bayelsa state spokesperson Francis Agbo said Shell had
"flouted the court order" and production had not ceased. "There is
ongoing work in the facility in clear violation of the court order," he
said.
Boro Ige-Edaba, executive secretary of the state's Physical Planning and
Development Board, said Bayelsa's state government would "take
appropriate action to prosecute them".
Shell launched the facility in 2010 with an initial planned output of
one-billion standard cubic feet of gas per day and up to 70 000 barrels
per day (bpd) of oil from 2011.
It aimed to boost output to 1.3-trillion standard cubic feet by adding
more wells, Shell's website said.
Residents in the Delta have long complained about oil spills and
widespread poverty despite the region being home to much of Nigeria's
oil production, which contributes about 70 percent of national income.
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Royal Dutch Shell has
failed to halt production at the Gbaran Ubie oil and gas facility in
southern Nigeria, contravening a court order for the site to be sealed
and raising the prospect of legal action, state government officials
said on Wednesday.
A Reuters reporter spoke to workers at the plant who also said
production had continued.
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A Shell spokesman declined to comment.
The facility, in the oil-rich southern Niger Delta region, supplies the
Bonny liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal and also helps
generate electricity, which is scarce in Africa's top oil producer and
most populous nation.
On Monday, the Bayelsa state government said the premises had been
sealed up for operating without a permit and staff had been evicted.
But on Wednesday, Bayelsa state spokesperson Francis Agbo said Shell had
"flouted the court order" and production had not ceased. "There is
ongoing work in the facility in clear violation of the court order," he
said.
Boro Ige-Edaba, executive secretary of the state's Physical Planning and
Development Board, said Bayelsa's state government would "take
appropriate action to prosecute them".
Shell launched the facility in 2010 with an initial planned output of
one-billion standard cubic feet of gas per day and up to 70 000 barrels
per day (bpd) of oil from 2011.
It aimed to boost output to 1.3-trillion standard cubic feet by adding
more wells, Shell's website said.
Residents in the Delta have long complained about oil spills and
widespread poverty despite the region being home to much of Nigeria's
oil production, which contributes about 70 percent of national income.
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Ekweremadu in a statement by his Special Adviser, Media and Publicity, Mr. Uche Anichukwu, explained that the EFCC denial which was contained in a statement by its spokesperson, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, was most unfortunate.
The statement reads, ” We want to put it on record that the EFCC Liaison Officer to the National Assembly, Mr. Suleiman Bakari, and his team, applied for and subsequently paid a courtesy call on the Deputy President of the Senate in his Office on Tuesday, April 19, 2016.
“Mr. Bakari, amongst other issues he raised, solicited the support of the Senate and National Assembly towards the anti-corruption crusade of the present administration, and even presented a frame with a bold picture of President Muhammadu Buhari, bearing the inscription: “If we don’t kill corruption, corruption will kill Nigeria”.
“Mr. Bakari also, on behalf of the Acting Chairman, management, and staff of the EFCC decorated Senator Ekweremadu as an Anti-Corruption Ambassador of the EFCC.
“It is also a fact that the visit and decoration was captured in both pictures and video.”
It also faulted the claim by the EFCC spokesperson that the agency has never and could not have decorated anybody as an Anti-Corruption Ambassador, since, according to him, “the Commission is not in the habit of awarding titles to individuals.”
It added,”We wish to refer him (Uwujaren,) to December 7, 2007, when the Nuhu Ribadu-led EFCC conferred the Role Model Award in the Fight Against Corruption, on certain persons, including a former President of the Senate; a taxi driver; and a former Justice of the Federal High Court at the Musa Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja.”
The statement added that the said denial by the EFCC was coming in three different statements all within a few hours is, therefore, baffling, inexplicable, and contradictory.
It said, “Taking cognisance of the command structure of the agency, we also wonder whether Mr. Bakari could have acted on his own or read from a prepared text without recourse to the Commission, which he represents, especially as the visit and decoration was never solicited for in the first place.
“We leave the rest to discerning members of the public to read in-between the lines and make their own judgments.
“However, Ambassador or no Ambassador, the Deputy President of the Senate will not back down from his legislative efforts and advocacy as captured in his several public statements and lectures over the years.
“He will continue to push for legal and institutional reforms such as Special Anti-Graft Courts; Security of tenure and financial autonomy for the EFCC and related agencies.
“Only such reforms would fast-track justice and insulate the anti-corruption agencies from external interference and self-reversals.”
Meanwhile, attempts by our correspondent to get the official reaction of the Senate to specific allegations contained in the EFCC statement were not successful as the Spokesperson, Senator Sabi Abdullahi, did not pick his calls while a text message sent to him was returned undelivered.
Royal Dutch Shell has
failed to halt production at the Gbaran Ubie oil and gas facility in
southern Nigeria, contravening a court order for the site to be sealed
and raising the prospect of legal action, state government officials
said on Wednesday.
A Reuters reporter spoke to workers at the plant who also said
production had continued.
Print
Send to Friend
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0
A Shell spokesman declined to comment.
The facility, in the oil-rich southern Niger Delta region, supplies the
Bonny liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal and also helps
generate electricity, which is scarce in Africa's top oil producer and
most populous nation.
On Monday, the Bayelsa state government said the premises had been
sealed up for operating without a permit and staff had been evicted.
But on Wednesday, Bayelsa state spokesperson Francis Agbo said Shell had
"flouted the court order" and production had not ceased. "There is
ongoing work in the facility in clear violation of the court order," he
said.
Boro Ige-Edaba, executive secretary of the state's Physical Planning and
Development Board, said Bayelsa's state government would "take
appropriate action to prosecute them".
Shell launched the facility in 2010 with an initial planned output of
one-billion standard cubic feet of gas per day and up to 70 000 barrels
per day (bpd) of oil from 2011.
It aimed to boost output to 1.3-trillion standard cubic feet by adding
more wells, Shell's website said.
Residents in the Delta have long complained about oil spills and
widespread poverty despite the region being home to much of Nigeria's
oil production, which contributes about 70 percent of national income.
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