Five weeks after a Dutch court in The Hague, Netherlands, ruled in favour of Mr. Friday Akpan, a farmer, whose 47 fish ponds were polluted by the Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC oil spill, he is yet to be paid for the damages...The district court in The Hague said SPDC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, must compensate Akpan...In its judgment the Hague court said, ”Shell Nigeria should and could have prevented this sabotage in an easy way". [Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited Shell to respond – see linked item for its response]