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Shell Agrees to Pay $15m for Role in Murder of Ken Saro Wiwa, Other Ogoni Leaders.

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By Farouk Mohammed
Published: December 2, 2015
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Royal Dutch Shell has agreed to pay a settlement of $15.5 Million (N3 billion) over the killing of novelist and environmental activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa, and eight other Ogoni leaders, London Guardian reports.

Saro-Wiwa was in 2005 sentenced to death by hanging by a military tribunal set up by late dictator, Sani Abacha.

Shell agreed to the settlement a day before a federal court in New York, United States, was about to rule on a case that Shell collaborated with the Nigerian government in the execution of the Ogoni Nine, as the executed community leaders were popularly referred to.

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The payout is one of the largest by a multinational corporation for a human rights related case and it marks the end of a 14-year struggle to hold Shell accountable for its involvement in the tragic death of the activists.

Human rights experts said the scale of the settlement would have far-reaching effect in making multinational corporations accountable for their social and environmental deeds.

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