Business Day
8 August 2011
The chicken came home to roost last Thursday on the doorsteps of the Nigerian state. If you were ever in any need of evidence about how Nigerian governments, both military and democratic, have betrayed the Nigerian people over the years (and they are still betraying the Nigerian people, by the way), it all came out that very day.
The outcome of a 14-month study by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) of the oil rich Ogoniland, the land of the late writer and environmental campaigner, Ken Saro Wiwa, provided clear evidence of how the Nigerian State for over 50 years let its citizens in Ogoniland down by looking the other way, lining the pockets of its officials, while allowing the international oil company, Shell, to behave without any respect for environmental corporate governance, the people of the land and Nigeria and Nigerians in general.
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