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Article

25 Jul 2001

Author:
Ahamefula Ogbu and Lillian Okenwa, This Day [Nigeria]

Shell Begs to Return to Ogoniland

Managing Director of Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), Mr. Ron M. Van den Berg, dragged before the Justice Chukwudifu Oputa Human Rights Commission by the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) yesterday told the panel that his primary concern was for peace and reconciliation so that his company could resume operation in oil-rich Ogoniland....On the allegation that Shell paid the Major Paul Okuntimo led Internal Security Force in Rivers state to suppress Ogonis, the Shell boss said "I don't know about that".