Vandalising the abandoned Shell oil pipelines in Nigeria...

Vandalising the abandoned Shell oil pipelines in Nigeria carries the death penalty."Shell has found itself asking the authorities for lenience for an accused pipeline vandal out of fear of the backlash at home and abroad (if a local were successfully) prosecuted or sentenced to death for pipeline vandalism," said Hubert Nwokolo, Shell's general manager of community development, at headquarters in Nigeria's eastern oil capital of Port Harcourt.