Shell Shuts Office As Ogonis Protest Pollution
By Bashiru Abdullahi, 30 April 2012
Port Harcourt — The Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) shut down its office in Rumoumasi area of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, as hundreds of Ogonis and environmental activists staged a protest at the weekend.
The protesters, who carried placards with various inscriptions such as, “Shell clean up Niger Delta”, “Implement UNEP report”, “Ogoni say no to Shell”, among others, marched to the entrance of the Shell office, calling on it to clean up pollution in the Niger Delta region.