Cash Can't Fix the Nigeria Village Ruined by Shell's Oil
- Bodo residents have spent most of the $77 million compensation
- President Buhari says he will act on 2011 UN clean-up report
Paying The Price After Winning Millions From Shell
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As canoes glide past mangroves blackened by oil in the Niger River delta, two dozen children splash around in a creek covered by a sheen of crude while families take shelter from the punishing midday sun in half-built houses.
Once a bustling farming and fishing town in the region of Ogoniland, Bodo has become a poster child in Nigeria for the devastating impact on local communities caused by the leakage of about 240,000 barrels of crude a year in the delta, close to the amount that spilled in 1989 when the Exxon Valdez tanker ran aground off Alaska.