National Union of Ogoni Students, NUOS, have asked the Royal Dutch Shell to vacate Ogoni land within 24 hours as it cannot guarantee the safety of it properties and personnel.

Shell recently resumed operations in the Niger Delta to restore 170,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil production after a protest at its major pipeline hub had halted oil exploration in Ogoni land about 14 years ago as a result of a major protest which has culminated to the current unrest in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.

However, in a statement made available to pointblanknews.com and signed by KoneBari Nwike, on the re-entry of Shell into Ogoni Land, the students stated that “We are dismayed and outraged at their professional thuggery. We have never seen, read or heard of a democratic nation where force instead of dialogue is used to coarse citizens into submitting to the dictate of a corporation but Nigeria.”

The Ogoni student body blamed President Olusegun Obasanjo for the atrocities committed by Shell against Ogoni people.

The group warned “We also use this medium to alert Shell oil management and employees that, we cannot guarantee the safety of any Shell employee in Ogoni territory.

Therefore, they should resist the temptation of being sent for oil drilling in Ogoni. Your safety is important.”

While calling on all Ogoni people at home and in Diaspora to unite against the Royal Dutch oil giant, the Ogoni Students noted that “Royal Dutch Shell has forcefully re-entered Ogoni land because they want to ensnare Ogoni into the game of abducting foreign oil workers; which would then forestall their bright chances of winning over it in an Ogoni class action lawsuit in the United States of America.”

Warning those who have formed alliance with the Government and Shell against Ogoni People, the student group stated that “we must all guide against a repeat of the ugly incidence of the past.”

The group added that the class action against Shell must be respected as according to them, “Shell could only drill Ogoni Oil resources with the death of the last Ogoni man,” the statement said.