Oil spill: FG advises Ogoni people
http://www.hrlnews.com/2019/04/oil-spill-fg-advises-ogoni-people.html
The Federal Government of Nigeria is suing for peace among Ogoni
people as it claims that efforts to clean up oil impacted communities in
the area is set to commence in earnest.
According to Dr Marvin Dekil, the Project Coordinator, Hydrocarbon
Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) in the Federal Ministry of
Environment, Ogoni people should avoid taking actions capable of
delaying the clean up in oil impacted communities.
Dr Dekil who made the plea at a sensitisation and town hall meeting
with stakeholders in the area, reiterated the Federal government’s
commitment to the clean up exercise.
“Ogoni people will recall that HYPREP had in January presented and
handed over the sites to contractors who were tasked to carry out the
remediation works in the communities. Our meeting today would have been
to inform the people of the level of work achieved by the contractors
working in the communities.
“But, regrettably, we do not have any report to give. The reason is
not far-fetched as restiveness affects people and activities in which
the clean up exercise is not an exception,” he said.
He, however, said that remediation works had fully commenced in Eleme
local government area with youths in the area engaged by the
contractors. “In Eleme, contractors have mobilised to site; equipment is
on ground and work has fully commenced in most of the sites.
To this
end, youths in these communities are engaged at different levels in each
of the sites.”
