{"id":2474,"date":"2016-08-05T19:42:56","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T19:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erafoen.org\/?p=2474"},"modified":"2016-08-05T19:42:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T19:42:56","slug":"shell-should-not-oversee-ogoni-clean-up-civil-rights-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erafoen.org\/?p=2474","title":{"rendered":"Shell should not oversee Ogoni clean up \u2014Civil rights group"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2016\/06\/fgs-ogoni-clean-flag-off-mere-jamboree-group\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2231\" src=\"http:\/\/erafoen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/era-url-icon.ico\" alt=\"era-url-icon\" width=\"59\" height=\"59\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2016\/08\/shell-not-oversee-ogoni-clean-civil-rights-group\/\">Vanguard<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">PORT HARCOURT\u2014\u00a0 Environmental Rights Action\/Friends of the Earth of Nigeria has called on the Federal Government not to include Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, in any body constituted to oversee the clean up exercise in Ogoni, Rivers State. Executive Director of the organisation, Dr Godwin Ojo,\u00a0 in his opening remark at a colloquium,\u00a0 yesterday, in Port Harcourt, to commemorate the 5th anniversary of the release of the recommendations of United Nations Environment Programme,\u00a0 UNEP, on Ogoni-land, said that the alleged insistence by the oil company to sit on the Governing Council and Steering Board was worrisome. He said that since\u00a0 the oil company was largely responsible for pollution of the area, it would be unfair for the same firm to be part of the team overseeing the clean up exercise. Ojo also expressed fear on the seeming undue political influence Shell has\u00a0 on issues in the Niger Delta, stressing that this could derail the clean up process.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2475\" src=\"http:\/\/erafoen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/shell-main.jpg\" alt=\"shell-main\" width=\"560\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/erafoen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/shell-main.jpg 560w, https:\/\/erafoen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/shell-main-300x174.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vanguard PORT HARCOURT\u2014\u00a0 Environmental Rights Action\/Friends of the Earth of Nigeria has called on the Federal Government not to include Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, in any body constituted to oversee the clean up exercise in Ogoni, Rivers State. Executive Director of the organisation, Dr Godwin Ojo,\u00a0 in his opening remark at a colloquium,\u00a0 yesterday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-era-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erafoen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erafoen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erafoen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erafoen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erafoen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/erafoen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erafoen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erafoen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erafoen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erafoen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}