Supreme Courtroom dismisses Shell’s software to evaluate Ogoni N17bn judgment
The Supreme Courtroom on Friday dismissed an software by an oil large, Shell Petroleum Improvement Firm, requesting a revisit of a January 11, 2019 judgment ordering it to pay N17bn to some Ogoni communities in Rivers State affected by an oil spill from the corporate in 1970.
A five-man panel led by Justice Olabode Rhodes-Vivour unanimously dismissed the corporate’s software for a evaluate of the judgment after upholding the preliminary objection filed by the communities’ authorized workforce.
Justice Centus Nweze ready Friday’s lead ruling but it surely was learn by one other Justice of the apex court docket, Justice Chukwudumebi Oseji, who isn’t a member of the five-man panel.
The apex court docket had within the case which had lasted about 31 years from when it began on the Excessive Courtroom, issued the N17bn order in favour of Ejama-Ebubu in Tai Eleme Native Authorities Space of Rivers State, represented by Chief Isaac Agbara and 9 others.
The communities’ lead lawyer, Lucius Igwe, stated on Friday that the judgment sum with the accrued pursuits for the 32 years interval stood at about N182bn.
On the September 22, 2020 listening to resulting in the Supreme Courtroom’s ruling delivered on Friday, Nwosu had urged the apex court docket to not solely dismiss the appliance, however to additionally make an order in opposition to all of the senior legal professionals in Shell’s authorized workforce as “deterrence” for the submitting of the judgment evaluate software which he alleged was aimed toward ridiculing the integrity and finality of the choices of the apex court docket.
Shell’s authorized workforce led by Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN) had huge pictures within the authorized occupation together with Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), a former Legal professional-Common of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Kanu Agabi (SAN), Dr Wale Babalakin (SAN), and Wale Akoni (SAN).
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