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Senate Directs Shell to Pay Ijaws $1.5bn Compensation From Kola Ologbondiyan in Abuja Senate yesterday unanimously directed Shell Petroleum Development Company Nigeria Limited (SPDC) to commence the payment of the sum of $1.5 billion to the Ijaws Aborigines of Bayelsa State as compensation. The money was for the severe health hazards, economic hardship, injurious affection, avoidable deaths and sundry maladies which the people have suffered as a direct or indirect consequence of multiple spillages occurring in SPDC's facilities across the eight local government areas of the state since the company commenced operations in 1956. The upper legislative house approved that $1 billion is payable forthwith while the $500 million be paid within five years period in five equal installments of $100 million per annum commencing not later than one year after the payment of the initial $1 billion aforementioned. The Senate mandated its committees for Petroleum Resources (Upstream) and its Niger Delta counterpart to ensure SPDC compliance, even as it resolved that "the recommendations of the Legal Advisory Panel on the Investigative Hearing of Petition by the Ijaw Aborigines of Bayelsa State against Shell Petroleum Development Company Limited (SPDC) as presented to the Federal House of Representatives on 24 February 2003 be implemented." These resolutions were predicated upon a motion entitled "Enforcement of the Recommendation of the Panel on the Petition by the Ijaw Aborigines of Bayelsa State Against Shell Petroleum Development Com-pany," brought by Senators Lee Maeba, David Brigidi, Inatimi Rufus Spiff, John K. Brambaifa, James Manager and Ibiapuye Martyns-Yellowe. Maeba, who moved the motion which was seconded by Senator Sanni Kamba, recalled that the House of Representatives Committee on Public Petitions received a petition from a body known as the Ijaw Aborigines of Bayelsa State, dated 8 December 2000 against SPDC. He noted that the House Committee conducted public hearings on the said petition and received oral and documentary evidence from the petitioners and the respondent respectively. Who Are We ? | About THISDAYOnLine.com | THISDAY People | Contact Us © Copyright 2000 Leaders & Company Limited

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