Abuja / London – this battle of David and Goliath has won: The Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell will pay in the dispute over oil spilled a multimillion sum of 15,600 fishermen and farmers from the Niger Delta. This involves a total compensation in the amount of 55 million pounds (70 million euros). £ 35 million will be divided among the individual plaintiffs, £ 20 million to benefit the entire community, such as Shell announced.
This ends a simmering for three years litigation before the trial had begun this year. It is the highest out of court settlement which ever negotiated for an oil spill in Nigeria. Shell 
had offered the equivalent of 38 million euros, the victim called at least ten times.
The two catastrophes occurred in 2008. For two pipelines were as presented by the plaintiffs a total of 500,000 barrels of oil escaped and polluted the environment.
Attorneys of the affected farmers and fishermen from the village of Bodo, whose environment is polluted seriously by the oil spills, it described as “deeply disappointing” that the corporation the amount of damage so long not recognized. It is the first comparison of its kind and should serve as a template shell for future cases in Nigeria and other countries.
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