A youth group in Rumuekpe community in Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State, has threatened to drag Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria
to the International Criminal Court, to claim damages resulting from the explosion that killed several persons and burnt down vehicles in their community last Friday.
Speaking in a press briefing at the community, the President of Rumuekpe Youth Elites; Maxwell Agala, said the Department of State Service will also explain before the ICC, the role it played in the destruction of properties in the area and the arrests it carried out in their community. “I am telling the world that SHELL is to blame because they have failed to carry out their Corporate Social Responsibility to our community. They are the cause of everything that is happening in Rumuekpe today. They are the cause of the fire outbreak.
“They are all connivers of what is happening in Rumuekpe today. If SHELL say they are not connivers, then the ICC is not afraid of SHELL or the DSS.”
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