The hearing is happening. First witness is speaking now. The court has ordered that his identity is kept confidential for security reasons. #Kiobel amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
The first witness is from Ogoniland. He says that the Nigerian police wanted him to make a statement against Ken Saro Wiwa. He said he was hit on his head, and afraid, accepted to make this statement.
The man says he was taken to a house with other people. He was asked to testify in court, and that if he supported the case he would receive help. He says he was promised a house and job. He adds that some of these men were from Shell, others from the Nigerian government.
He says that Shell gave him 30,000 naira in cash to testify against MOSOP.
He says he did not want to testify against Saro Wiwa and MOSOP so he fled to Lagos where he looked for a lawyer.
He adds that he wrote his own statement instead. Feeling unsafe, he then decided to leave Nigeria. He fled to Benin, where he lived in a refugee camp
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