Oil company Royal Dutch Shell will pay $15.5 million to settle a lawsuit against its Nigerian subsidiary by the family of executed Nigerian environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and other dissidents, the plaintiffs announced yesterday. 

The lawsuit accused Shell of complicity in the 1995 hanging of Saro-Wiwa and the murders or persecution of other environmental activists by the military government that ruled the nation at the time. Approximately half of the settlement will go into a trust fund to help the people of Nigeria’s Ogoni region.

CNN has featured below an interview with the son of executed Nigerian activist Ken Saro-Wiwa about environmental issues he still acknowledges are a claim against Shell but more so the significance of the $15m restitution made by Shell which will serve as precedence towards human rights advocates and to Nigerian human rights.