PUBLIC NOTICE: SHELL ABANDONS BONNY KINGDOM, JUST LIKE IT DID OGONI LAND – BREACHES CLAUSE 2.3 OF THE 1958 BONNY TERMINAL AGREEMENT

14th March, 2025

Dear Mr Sawan,

SHELL ABANDONS BONNY KINGDOM, JUST LIKE IT DID OGONI LAND – BREACHES CLAUSE 2.3 OF THE 1958 BONNY TERMINAL AGREEMENT

I write as Chief and Head of the Dan-Jumbo House, Se-Alabo of the Bonny Kingdom and one of the three Chiefs of the Jumbo House of Grand Bonny Kingdom, your landlord and host community in Rivers State of Nigeria and on whose behalf and unequivocal authority I write this letter.

On the 13th March 2025 I woke up to an article from the Business Day, a Newspaper published in Nigeria captioned “Renaissance completes acquisition of Shell’s $2.4 bn asset in Nigeria”.

This shocking revelation prompts me to write and demand answers to the following questions:

1. Does the Bonny Terminal constitute part of Shell’s assets acquired by Renaissance?

• If it does, did you or your legal team refresh your memory or advertently avert your mind to the provisions of clause 2.3 of the 1958 land lease agreement between your esteemed company, The Shell-BP Petroleum Company of Nigeria Limited, the Jumbo House and Brown House? For the avoidance of doubt, that clause expressly provides that Shell is “Not to assign or underlet the premises or any part thereof without the consent of the Minister of Town Planning of the Eastern Region of the Federation of Nigeria and the Lessors”.

• It is obvious that you obtained the consent and approval of the Nigeria’s oil minister, but did you obtain the consent of the Lessors – Jumbo House and the Brown House of Bonny Kingdom before commencing and concluding the sale of your assets?

• Did you also make provisions for remediation and clean-up of leased lands and swamps in particular and the Bonny Island in general?

Factually, your operations in Bonny Island spanned over 60 years. Over 60 years of oil exploration which has polluted our land to a level where sadly we can no longer fish in our rivers and drink water from our water wells.

May I remind you that my grand uncle, Chief Emmanuel Erefa Dan-Jumbo was one of the three Jumbo House Chiefs who engaged with your company, The Shell-BP Petroleum Company of Nigeria Limited, in respect of this land spanning a total of 1,354 acres in 1958. And in 1972, my grandfather, Chief Gabriel Obupara Dan-Jumbo who took over as Chief of the Dan-Jumbo House from his elder brother, in company of two other Chiefs of the Jumbo House and the Brown House engaged with your company in respect of a separate land leased in 1972 for an initial period of 20 years spanning a total of 10 acres of seasonal swamp and 9.9 acres of freshwater swamp situate at Obiacho, near Bonny.

Indeed, my ancestors dealt with your company in good faith, oblivious of the damage and devastation your operation would cause to the land directly leased to it on one hand and devastation to associate lands on another.

It is in light of the above, coupled with the fact that I personally wrote to your company on 23/01/2024, urging you to follow due process to de-recognise, that we are treating your breach and failure to meet condition precedent to underlet the premises as a fundamental breach and in line with the provisions of clause 3.3 of the 1958 lease agreement we are giving your company fourteen (14) days from the date of receiving this letter to remedy your breach by taking the following steps:

1. That you immediately hold a joint meeting with Renaissance, the Amanyanabo-in-Council (King and Bonny Chiefs in Council) and the Lessors (Jumbo Major House, Dan-Jumbo House. John Jumbo House and the Brown House).

• That the 1958 lease agreement be renegotiated with the Lessors in presence of the Amanyanabo-in-Council at this point of sale, especially, as the families did not foresee this sale when they entered into the agreement with you in 1958. I believe that if they did, they may not have leased the land to you at the price they did.

• That you spell out your liabilities in the Kingdom of Bonny to Renaissance in the presence of the Amanyanabo-in-Council and the Lessors, as well as spell out action plans to remediate your liabilities, especially, if the liabilities relate to the clean-up of Bonny.

• That you also renegotiate the Obiacho land agreement and if you do not wish to continue your operations on that land you agree to a clean-up plan with the Lessors and the Amanyanabo-in-Council.

• That this meeting and all agreed decisions be publicised in Two National Dailies as well as on National Television to reassure the people of Bonny that their land would not be abandoned like you did the Ogoni land as soon as you leave Bonny Kingdom.

Considering the above, please be assured that we shall not hesitate to commence legal action against your esteemed company here in the United Kingdom, should you fail to remedy this breach. Please be informed that should this matter go to court in the United Kingdom, we shall be demanding for the sum of $5bn to cover compensation and clean-up of our land. Also find attached my letter to your company on 23/01/2024.

Please accept the assurances of my highest regards, always.