An Abuja Upper Area Court has summoned Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria and its top Executives to appear before it to answer the charge levelled against them by a group known as the African Initiative Against Abuse of Public Trust.
In the suit, the group alleged that as operators of the Bonny Terminal, Shell installed an unapproved metering system which it claimed was temporary and manipulated to deliberately understate the volume of crude oil that was injected to the terminal thereby shortchanging the local oil companies, owners of the oil and the Federal Government the revenue due to them.
The accused persons, Chibueze Uduanochie, Simon Ruddy, Bashir Bello, Osagie Okunbor, Igo Weli, Toyin Olagunju and Captain Callium Finlayson. are accused of converting 16 million barrels of crude oil through the use of the fraudulent and unapproved metering system.
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The summon issued by Justice Gambo Garba, of the Upper Area Court in Abuja ordered Shell petroleum company and its seven executives to appear before it on March 2, to answer the charge.
Editor-Oloyede Oworu
