Oil Spillage: Court orders ExxonMobil, NNPC to pay Akwa Ibom communities N82 billion

to pay the oil communities in Ibeno Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom a cumulative damages of 81.9 billion over oil spillage.

Delivering judgement on Monday in a joint suit instituted against the two defendants by the aggrieved oil producing communities, Justice Taiwo held that the American oil company and NNPC were negligent in the way they handled oil spills that caused environmental degradation in the communities. He said he believed the oral and documentary evidence adduced by the plaintiffs to support their claims that lives were made miserable for them when their water and land were polluted through crude oil leakages from old oil pipelines.

Besides, the judge described as unreliable witnesses called by Mobil adding that for no reason they became evasive during cross examination by counsel to the plaintiffs.

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Akwa Ibom community wins suit against oil firm, gets N82bn damages - Punch NewspapersA Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Monday has given judgment on the case instituted by Obong Effiong Archianga and nine others, representing Ibeno Clan in Akwa Ibom State against the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Mobil Production Nigeria Unlimited, and Exxon Mobil Corporation as first to third defendants respectively. 82mil in the pockets of elders
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