A report out this week finds that Shell oil company routinely paid armed militants in Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta, during a decade of killings and rampant environmental destruction. The study also charges that Shell Oil is complicit with the Nigerian government in the “systematic killing and torture of local residents.” Counting the Cost is the report and it’s released by the NGO Platform, a UK-based oil industry watchdog. We’re joined now from London by its author, Ben Amunwa.
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