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Article

5 Sep 2008

Author:
Omon-Julius Onabu, This Day [Nigeria]

NUJ Gives Shell Ultimatum over Detention of Journalists [Nigeria]

The Warri Chapel of the Nigeria Union Journalists (NUJ) yesterday demanded a written apology from the Anglo-Dutch oil company, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) over its alleged role in the arrest and detention of journalists at the Utorogun Gas Plant in Delta State. About 15 journalists from several states across the Niger-Delta were last Tuesday while on a working tour of Iwhrekan, an oil producing community in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State , arrested by a company of soldiers attached to the JTF [military Joint Task Force]... "We are taken more aback that the JTF was said to have acted at the instance of the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) even though SPDC denied the fact that they had a hand in the arrest and detention" [said a statement by Warri Chapel leaders].