People of Goi community in Gokana Local Government Area of Rivers State have sued Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) and others over alleged exclusion from a recent payment of £55 million as compensation to residents of Bodo community.
A United Kingdom-based law firm, Leigh Day, had, in 2011, represented Bodo community in an appeal before a London court for the oil company to pay about £300 million in compensation to its clients for the spillage of 500,000 barrels of oil into their environment in 2008/2009.
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