Daily Mail 17th June 2010
This is the way the way US is handling the crisis that hit the Gulf of Mexico since last April.
3 weeks following the incident, 1 face to face meeting was enough for BP executives and President Obama to settle.
Does somebody smell double standard, hypocrisy and a beautiful example of an arrogant manifestation of post colonial world views.
Lets rewind to last year...
June 2009
Yes you have read well.....it took 15 years for the Ken Saro Wiwa family to bring the case to court and held Shell accountable for the death of peace and environment activist/writer Ken Saro Wiwa.
Shell has swept the problem under the carpet at the overall amount of £1millions pounds a year.
What??
Why cant a sovereign country such as Nigeria protect its own people who are "under assault on their own homeland by external enemies"
Why is it that Niger Delta is totally ignored by mainstream media when the crisis they are face with for decades is far worse than any environmental modern disaster the US or the west will ever experience??
At least I stumble onto one American journalist who looked a bit deeper than your average anchor or news reader and ask...why?
NNEKA has a word to express on the matter too..
The media has a way to highlight and select certain hand-picked global world events and put it in the forefront of our thoughts to become the main conversation topics part of our daily concerns while other tragedies, injustices, disasters occurring in other parts of the world are pushed in the back of our consciousness if not totally ignored.
More info on OIL abuse:
http://wiwavshell.org/wiwa-v-shell-victory-settlement/
http://www.shellguilty.com/shell-settles/
http://www.businessdayonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11487:between-gulf-of-mexico-and-niger-delta&catid=98:editorial&Itemid=351
http://remembersarowiwa.com/
The engulfing BP plumbed new depth last ight as President Obama bullied the company into deposing £13.5 billions into a fuind to settle compensation claims for calamitous Gulg of Mexico oil spill...
This is the way the way US is handling the crisis that hit the Gulf of Mexico since last April.
3 weeks following the incident, 1 face to face meeting was enough for BP executives and President Obama to settle.
Does somebody smell double standard, hypocrisy and a beautiful example of an arrogant manifestation of post colonial world views.
Lets rewind to last year...
June 2009
New York– After legal battles lasting nearly fourteen years, oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has been forced to pay a $15.5 million out-of-court settlement. Plaintiffs from the Ogoni region of the Niger Delta have successfully held Shell accountable for complicity in human rights atrocities committed against the Ogoni people in the 1990s, including the execution of writer and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa. The legal action is one of the few cases brought under the U.S. Alien Tort Statute that have been resolved in favor of the plaintiffs. The settlement includes establishment of a $5 million trust to benefit local communities in Ogoni.
Yes you have read well.....it took 15 years for the Ken Saro Wiwa family to bring the case to court and held Shell accountable for the death of peace and environment activist/writer Ken Saro Wiwa.
Shell has swept the problem under the carpet at the overall amount of £1millions pounds a year.
What??
Why cant a sovereign country such as Nigeria protect its own people who are "under assault on their own homeland by external enemies"
Why is it that Niger Delta is totally ignored by mainstream media when the crisis they are face with for decades is far worse than any environmental modern disaster the US or the west will ever experience??
At least I stumble onto one American journalist who looked a bit deeper than your average anchor or news reader and ask...why?
NNEKA has a word to express on the matter too..
The media has a way to highlight and select certain hand-picked global world events and put it in the forefront of our thoughts to become the main conversation topics part of our daily concerns while other tragedies, injustices, disasters occurring in other parts of the world are pushed in the back of our consciousness if not totally ignored.
More info on OIL abuse:
http://wiwavshell.org/wiwa-v-shell-victory-settlement/
http://www.shellguilty.com/shell-settles/
http://www.businessdayonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11487:between-gulf-of-mexico-and-niger-delta&catid=98:editorial&Itemid=351
http://remembersarowiwa.com/
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