Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court on Monday ordered oil giant, Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited, and its Joint venture partner, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation , to pay the total sum of N81.9 billion as damages to Ibeno communities in Akwa Ibom State over oil pollution.
The oil spillages, the plaintiffs had claimed, badly affected their environment as well as destroyed their means of livelihood which was mainly fishing and farming. The judge held that the oral and documentary evidence adduced by the plaintiffs supported their claims that lives were made miserable for them when their waters and land were polluted through crude oil leakages from old oil pipelines belonging to the defendants.
Specifically, the court held that the oral and documentary evidence produced by Mobil were not in any way helpful to the court as they were targeted at serving predetermined interest. The NNPC had claimed that the suit was not filed within 12 months by the plaintiffs as required by the provision of section 12, sub section 1 of the NNPC Act, 2004.
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