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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Damien Gayle

Nigerian king faces Shell in London high court over decades of oil spills

King Okpabi in blue robes, crown, and orange necklaces on a central London street
King Okpabi says the effects of the contaminated water have been tragic with a lot of people developing cancer. Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi/The Guardian

His Royal Highness King Godwin Bebe Okpabi has carried bottles of water drawn from the wells of his homeland in the Niger delta to the high court in London.

It stinks. “This is the water that Shell has left for my people,” said the ruler of the Ogale community in Ogoniland, Nigeria. “This is poison, and they are spending millions of dollars to pay the best lawyers in the world so that they will not clean my land.”

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