Group assaults FG worth $1 billion Ogoni reparation

The federal government has been charged by the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People of being dishonest in its handling of the $1 billion hydrocarbon cleanup of Ogoniland in Rivers State.

In a statement, MOSOP President Fegalo Nsuke said that the Ogoni people lacked faith in the current Ogoni clean-up initiative as described in the UNEP report.
The Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Endeavor is in charge of the cleanup project.

In his statement commemorating the 30th anniversary of Ogoni Day, Nsuke accused HYPREP of carrying out fraudulent contracts and requested the organization to cease additional contract awards until the agency’s current audit was finished.

Additionally, MOSOP asked the federal government to embrace its recommendations for the creation of the Ogoni Development Authority and advocated for a more transparent environmental remediation of Ogoniland with a preference for the people’s access to clean water.

He also demanded that the Nigerian federation be properly restructured in order to protect the Ogoni people’s freedom to exercise their Ogoni identity inside the Nigerian federation.

The Ogoni environmental cleaning effort was not carried out by the Nigerian government in a meaningful manner. Due to MOSOP’s illogical exclusion from involvement and oversight of the agency’s operations, the whole process lacks transparency and has no community-based representation.

“We hate to say that we do not trust the exercise as it has been carried out so far.

“The cleaning agency, HYPREP, continues to carry out fraudulent contracts even though we believe that an audit of the exercise is still in progress. We consequently urge more openness in HYPREP’s activities and a freeze to new contract awards until the ongoing audit is finished.

“We demand that an integrated water program be established across Ogoni to solve the water crises and that water supply be put under emergency measures and given priority as a life-saving measure.”

The Ogoni people were also asked by MOSOP to use their rights in the upcoming elections based on their informed judgment, to fight any efforts to use violence before, during, or after the polls, and to reject any attempts to recruit young people to act as political thugs.

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