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Article

24 Aug 2011

Author:
Austin Ekeinde, Reuters

Nigeria's oil-tainted Ogoni weary of blame game

[V]eteran Nigerian fisherman Suagelo Kpalap gives a shrug of resignation at the mention of the latest twist in an oil spill blame game he's watched for decades. A U.N. report...told Kpalap and the other inhabitants of Ogoniland...what they've known for years -- their environment is dangerously polluted and Royal Dutch Shell and the government aren't doing enough to clean it up...Shell says it is working to better protect its equipment in Ogoniland but repairs are thwarted by persistent sabotage attacks and illegal tapping by local oil thieves...Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan last week constituted a committee to review the report and Shell and NNPC have both said they will look carefully at the findings. But there is scepticism that the positive statements of intent...will result in any long-term changes in an area of the world far from the international media glare..."There is no point blaming Shell any more than we should blame ourselves," said Senator Magnus Abe, the representative in the upper house of parliament for Rivers South-East...