Thursday, July 06, 2006 09:32:32 AM
Nigerian police said a Dutch oil worker was kidnapped by armed men Thursday morning from a Royal Dutch Shell gas plant, the latest in a spate of hostage-taking in the country’s oil-rich southern delta.
Hafiz Ringim, police commissioner for Bayelsa state, said Thursday’s kidnappers arrived at the Shell plant in speedboats and took hostage an expatriate working for Westminster Dredging, a contractor to Royal Dutch Shell PLC. The plant is located outside of Yenagoa, the regional capital.
Ringim said the worker, Michael Loss, was a Dutch national.
A Shell spokesman in Nigeria, Bisi Ojediran, confirmed that “an expatriate was abducted in a community incident,” at Gbaran, outside of the regional capital of Yenagoa. He said he didn’t have details of his nationality.
Ojediran said a group of local people had mounted a protest march in Gbaran earlier Thursday to demand jobs, roads and schools for their community.
“While this was going, some men in military uniform went to the project site and took the expatriate,” Ojediran said.
The hostage-taking was the second in less than 24 hours in Nigeria’s chaotic, oil-rich southern delta. Late Wednesday, a group of gunmen raided an offshore oil rig and seized a security guard as they retreated, according to the Nigerian navy.
Ringim did not say if there was any connection between the two incidents.
The attackers Wednesday forced their way onto a rig drilling for Nigerian company Consolidated Oil and kidnapped a retired navy officer working as a security guard, said navy spokesman Captain Obiora Medani said.
Medani said the attackers told Consolidated Oil that they came from nearby Sangana community. The group is accusing the oil firm of not meeting the terms of an agreement to help provide them with jobs and local amenities, he said.
Officials of Consolidated Oil were not immediately available for comment.
Kidnappings in the restive and impoverished Niger Delta have been common in recent months with militants using the hostages to bargain for a greater share of the wealth from Africa’s largest crude producer.
Attacks on oil pipelines and kidnappings, most of them by the largest militant group – Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta – have cut Nigerian oil production by more than 20 percent this year, adding to the upward pressure on world prices.
Some groups have asked for money and others for freedom for imprisoned comrades. Most of the kidnappings have ended peacefully.
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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