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The oil giant Royal Dutch Shell and its operations in Nigeria have agreed to pay fifteen and a half million dollars in an out of court settlement.
Shell was accused of complicity in human rights abuses in Ogoniland and was taken to court by relatives of several anti-oil campaigners including the author Ken Saro-Wiwa. Shell always denied any wrong-doing.
Mr.Saro-Wiwa was executed together with eight other activists in 1995. He had been campaigning against what he saw as the devastation of land in the south-east of his country by Shell and others.
On the line to Port Harcourt Paul Bakibinga spoke to Ledum Mitee President of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP). At the time of Ken Saro Wiwa's death Mr. Mitee was the organisation's Vice President. What did he make of the settlement?
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