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Mojo Long
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USD 20m Demanded for Germans held in Nigeria:

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USD 20m demanded for Germans held in Nigeria

16 June 2005

NAIROBI - Kidnappers holding two German oil workers captive in Nigeria's Niger Delta area have demanded a ransom of USD 20 million (EUR 16.6 million), it was reported on Thursday.

The abductors are also reported to have demanded that multinational oil concern Shell step up efforts to assist the poverty-stricken local population.

"If the SPDC Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria does not comply immediately, we are going to take over all the oil installations," Nigeria daily This Day quoted a member of the kidnap gang as saying.

The two Germans, employees of a Mannheim-based company sub- contracted by Shell, were seized along with four Nigerian co-workers while

travelling in a boat to a platform operated by the oil giant.

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Mojo Long
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Negotiation for release of Oil workers started today:

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LAGOS (AFX) - Negotiations for the release of six oil workers, two Germans and four Nigerians, taken hostage in Nigeria's volatile, oil-rich south by young ethnic Ijaw youths started today, various sources said.

The six men work for Bilfinger Berger Gas and Oil Services Ltd (B&B), an affiliate of German construction giant Julius Berger which provides services to oil and gas companies, especially Royal Dutch/Shell, in the Niger Delta region.

'The (Bayelsa) state governor has directed that the hostages be released immediately and we are very hopeful that they will be released in no distant time,' his spokesman Preye Wariowei told Agence France-Presse.

Kidnapping of oil workers is rampant in southern coastal states of Nigeria, which has a daily oil production of 2.5 mln barrels. Local communities accuse foreign oil companies and authorities of not passing the oil wealth on to them.

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voiceofreason
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I hate these things so much. I can understand the feelings of the Ijaws and others that do things like this to a certain level, but this isn't going to work for much longer. To them on the ground, they must be making serious impact, but to those of us who know what is going on in Shell boardrooms and those of our other oil companies, you're doing serious damage. Those companies wil soon pull out of Nigeria. And there will be no money to those communities at all! And definitely none to the rest of the country. They'll bankrupt Nigeria!!!!

All those companies are just looking for one big project to take the place of the income being provided by Nigeria.....basically a substitue for Nigeria. They claim they're losing too much money paying off ransoms and fixing vandalised equipment.

Please Ijaw and others........weather the storm a while longer till we can get a government that has a brain on it....but don't chase all our investors away...we'll be worse off for it.

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Ochiwar
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What investors? Shell an investor?? shell is a big looter nothing else. Shell has not invested jack, shell is only just taking. Let them get out for gods sake. Unfortunately they wont because they are just making too much money. If they are still in Iraq with the level of insurgency there what makes anybody feel they will pull out of Naija? Because of small kidnaping? I wish.

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