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EVIL SHELL PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT COMPANY OF NIG. PLC. DOES
By Odimegwu Onwumere
Published: March 7, 2007
He was doing well before in life, but who now sees Nkemjika Okoroji must weep. He sits on
a bench in his dingy room crying all the day. A first comer might take him as one mourning a
dead beloved one, but would rather be disappointed by Nkemjika’s explicitness. “I am
mourning but not for any deceased relation,” Nkemjika will say. “Life don tire me!” he
exclaims in a swift reaction with pool of tears streaming down from his eyes. He is inundated
with many thoughts: the room he lives in is not his own, he is attaching with a friend who is
not doing very nicely as per business level from the look of the room. Nkemjika has no job,
no shelter and peace.
He lost every way of his livelihood in 2002 when a Toyota Land Cruiser Parado Jeep No. AA
789 SAG, which was said to be owned by the Shell Petroleum Development Company
(SPDC) ran into his shop, where he was selling corrosive items, on the 21st Day of April,
2002 at about 3.00am at No 232 old Aba Road, Oyigbo, Rivers State. According to
Nkemjika, “the vehicle Toyota Land Cruiser Parado Jeep, Bayelsa No. AA789 SAG ran into
where I owned a shop and caused serious damage to my various property on the premises.”
Ask Nkemjika whether he takes the matter with a pitch of the sugar? Nkemjika will tell you,
“I contacted (SPDC) with other victims in the premises through our lawyer.” Whether he
remembers the name of the lawyer since the time of the incidence is approaching to a
decade, hear Nkemjika, “Our lawyer’s name, head office and residence was, (GBENE) DR.
CYRUS N. NUNIEH & COMPANY (BARRISTERS-AT-LAW & SOLICITORS)
GBOGBARA CHAMBERS. Isaac Boro Street, P O BOX 371, Old GRA. Port Harcourt,
Rivers Stat, Nigeria.”
Information made available to this writer indicates that Nkemjika’s lawyer wrote several
letters to SPDC for proper actions to be taken in considering and repealing the pains afflicted
on Nkemjika and co., but the letters didn’t had expected responses from SPDC.
One of the letters to the SPDC from Nkemjika’s lawyer was dated 7th May, 2002 with “OUR
REF; CNN/TM/SHELL/LN/IE/2002 address to the Transport Manager, Shell Petroleum
Development Company of Nigeria LTD, Eastern Division, Port Harcourt. Attention: Mr.
Sunday Obirah.”
The attachment to the letter was entitled, “MEMORANDUM OF UNDERTAKING TO PAY
COMPENSATION FOR DAMAGES.” By the time this letter was written, it was made
known that SPDC refused to remove the vehicle and sign the attached document of
undertaking to pay compensation to them for their various property damaged which had
thereby caused great obstruction and other damages.
The lawyer’s reason for writing the letter was for requiring whoever wishes to remove the
vehicle is ether the owner of the vehicle or the company “vicariously liable to pay the
damages caused.”
According to the letter, the lawyer wrote; “it is our further instruction that since there are
many thieves in Oyigbo, our chiefs have retained the service of two (2) security men in the
day time and four (4) persons in the night, so that thieves could be prevented from
vandalizing the vehicle from 21st April, 2002 up till now.” As at the time of that letter, this
writer was informed that on about 30th April, 2002 that SPDC’s Staff, Mr. Sunday Obiorah
of the company’s Transport Service Department came to assure the victims that his Shell
Director would be coming so that the matter could be settled on the 3rd May, 2002. But that
promise seemed rather met the iceberg.
To the chagrin of Nkemjika, the director that was supposed to come was the intrusion of six
policemen. “They came and petted me saying that they were there for then NEPA,” Nkemjika
snaps. “This was because the accident injured NEPA’s electricity pole.
Respecting the police, after the police told him that they were there to help him recover his
damaged goods, Nkemjika followed the policemen to their police station. “I was intimidated,”
he cries. “The sugar-coated tongue police now asked me, when I was in their station, to sign
a fictitious statement they wrote. That was in SSIB, Port Harcourt. The statement was that I
should not talk about the compensation again, but I did not oblige to their request. The police
then detained me for hours before I was released. When I was released, the police asked me
not to involve SPDC in the matter, rather that I should go to the blues and look for the
compensation I was looking for,” says Nkemjika. “After two weeks that I was released, to
my surprise, I saw the vehicle that did damage my property in the Oyigbo Divisional Police
station instead of the SSIB it was confirmed was being taken to.” By seeing the vehicle, to
Nkemjika, “It dawn on me that there was business in the whole thing the eyes does not
meet.”
But according to the letter, SPDC did not deny ownership of the vehicle. SPDC claimed “the
responsibility for the vehicle! In respect to the first letter to SPDC, another two letters were
written to the SPDC dated 30th May 2002 and 25th September 2002 respectively.
According to Nkemjika, the three and subsequent letters so for the SPDC were unattended by
the SPDC.
While the others afflicted by the said Toyota Jeep at No. 232 Old Aba Road, Oyigbo, Rivers
State may have been crying the way Nkemjika is seen gnashing teeth as of today, SPDC is at
large with its numerous multi-billion dollar businesses schedules in Nigeria.
As of the said year of the incidence, the victims were claiming from the SPDC a small
compensation, which represents Special Damages, but SPDC were on the decline of the
request.
Nkemjika, a young man in his early 30s does not know what to do in life now being ruined
by a vehicle owned by SPDC. He is calling on all well-meaning Nigerians to help him ask
Shell to do what it’s asked to do by the victims since he or them cannot afford the
wherewithal of seeking a redress in the court of the law.
Odimegwu Onwumere, is of Nigeria4BetterRule, Rivers State. Email: nzeprince@mail.com
Mobile: 08032552855
By Odimegwu Onwumere
Published: March 7, 2007
He was doing well before in life, but who now sees Nkemjika Okoroji must weep. He sits on
a bench in his dingy room crying all the day. A first comer might take him as one mourning a
dead beloved one, but would rather be disappointed by Nkemjika’s explicitness. “I am
mourning but not for any deceased relation,” Nkemjika will say. “Life don tire me!” he
exclaims in a swift reaction with pool of tears streaming down from his eyes. He is inundated
with many thoughts: the room he lives in is not his own, he is attaching with a friend who is
not doing very nicely as per business level from the look of the room. Nkemjika has no job,
no shelter and peace.
He lost every way of his livelihood in 2002 when a Toyota Land Cruiser Parado Jeep No. AA
789 SAG, which was said to be owned by the Shell Petroleum Development Company
(SPDC) ran into his shop, where he was selling corrosive items, on the 21st Day of April,
2002 at about 3.00am at No 232 old Aba Road, Oyigbo, Rivers State. According to
Nkemjika, “the vehicle Toyota Land Cruiser Parado Jeep, Bayelsa No. AA789 SAG ran into
where I owned a shop and caused serious damage to my various property on the premises.”
Ask Nkemjika whether he takes the matter with a pitch of the sugar? Nkemjika will tell you,
“I contacted (SPDC) with other victims in the premises through our lawyer.” Whether he
remembers the name of the lawyer since the time of the incidence is approaching to a
decade, hear Nkemjika, “Our lawyer’s name, head office and residence was, (GBENE) DR.
CYRUS N. NUNIEH & COMPANY (BARRISTERS-AT-LAW & SOLICITORS)
GBOGBARA CHAMBERS. Isaac Boro Street, P O BOX 371, Old GRA. Port Harcourt,
Rivers Stat, Nigeria.”
Information made available to this writer indicates that Nkemjika’s lawyer wrote several
letters to SPDC for proper actions to be taken in considering and repealing the pains afflicted
on Nkemjika and co., but the letters didn’t had expected responses from SPDC.
One of the letters to the SPDC from Nkemjika’s lawyer was dated 7th May, 2002 with “OUR
REF; CNN/TM/SHELL/LN/IE/2002 address to the Transport Manager, Shell Petroleum
Development Company of Nigeria LTD, Eastern Division, Port Harcourt. Attention: Mr.
Sunday Obirah.”
The attachment to the letter was entitled, “MEMORANDUM OF UNDERTAKING TO PAY
COMPENSATION FOR DAMAGES.” By the time this letter was written, it was made
known that SPDC refused to remove the vehicle and sign the attached document of
undertaking to pay compensation to them for their various property damaged which had
thereby caused great obstruction and other damages.
The lawyer’s reason for writing the letter was for requiring whoever wishes to remove the
vehicle is ether the owner of the vehicle or the company “vicariously liable to pay the
damages caused.”
According to the letter, the lawyer wrote; “it is our further instruction that since there are
many thieves in Oyigbo, our chiefs have retained the service of two (2) security men in the
day time and four (4) persons in the night, so that thieves could be prevented from
vandalizing the vehicle from 21st April, 2002 up till now.” As at the time of that letter, this
writer was informed that on about 30th April, 2002 that SPDC’s Staff, Mr. Sunday Obiorah
of the company’s Transport Service Department came to assure the victims that his Shell
Director would be coming so that the matter could be settled on the 3rd May, 2002. But that
promise seemed rather met the iceberg.
To the chagrin of Nkemjika, the director that was supposed to come was the intrusion of six
policemen. “They came and petted me saying that they were there for then NEPA,” Nkemjika
snaps. “This was because the accident injured NEPA’s electricity pole.
Respecting the police, after the police told him that they were there to help him recover his
damaged goods, Nkemjika followed the policemen to their police station. “I was intimidated,”
he cries. “The sugar-coated tongue police now asked me, when I was in their station, to sign
a fictitious statement they wrote. That was in SSIB, Port Harcourt. The statement was that I
should not talk about the compensation again, but I did not oblige to their request. The police
then detained me for hours before I was released. When I was released, the police asked me
not to involve SPDC in the matter, rather that I should go to the blues and look for the
compensation I was looking for,” says Nkemjika. “After two weeks that I was released, to
my surprise, I saw the vehicle that did damage my property in the Oyigbo Divisional Police
station instead of the SSIB it was confirmed was being taken to.” By seeing the vehicle, to
Nkemjika, “It dawn on me that there was business in the whole thing the eyes does not
meet.”
But according to the letter, SPDC did not deny ownership of the vehicle. SPDC claimed “the
responsibility for the vehicle! In respect to the first letter to SPDC, another two letters were
written to the SPDC dated 30th May 2002 and 25th September 2002 respectively.
According to Nkemjika, the three and subsequent letters so for the SPDC were unattended by
the SPDC.
While the others afflicted by the said Toyota Jeep at No. 232 Old Aba Road, Oyigbo, Rivers
State may have been crying the way Nkemjika is seen gnashing teeth as of today, SPDC is at
large with its numerous multi-billion dollar businesses schedules in Nigeria.
As of the said year of the incidence, the victims were claiming from the SPDC a small
compensation, which represents Special Damages, but SPDC were on the decline of the
request.
Nkemjika, a young man in his early 30s does not know what to do in life now being ruined
by a vehicle owned by SPDC. He is calling on all well-meaning Nigerians to help him ask
Shell to do what it’s asked to do by the victims since he or them cannot afford the
wherewithal of seeking a redress in the court of the law.
Odimegwu Onwumere, is of Nigeria4BetterRule, Rivers State. Email: nzeprince@mail.com
Mobile: 08032552855