Ogoni hails Buhari on implementation of UNEP on Ogoniland

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Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt
President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria
The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has welcomed and congratulated the President Muhammadu Buhari led Federal Government of Nigeria for approving the setting up of governing structures to facilitate the implementation of recommendations of the UNEP report on Ogoniland.
MOSOP in a statement signed by Mr Bari-ala Kpalap, media advisor to President of MOSOP Mr Legbosi Pyagbara,said the decision of President Buhari to fast track the cleaning of Ogoniland is coming at a time when there have been growing skepticism driven by experiences of untoward politicisation of implementation of the report by the immediate past administration, the approval demonstrates a comforting shift from rhetoric to matching words with action and strengthens the confidence of Ogoni people in the government.
In reciprocation of the government’s response, MOSOP pledges to cooperate with the administration and other stakeholders to ensure a successful implementation of recommendations of the report.
The body said “we applaud the approach, we would appeal to the national government not to delay the constitution of the approved governance structures to enable urgent commencement of the Ogoni environmental remediation and restoration exercise.”
MOSOP implores Mr. President as a matter of urgency, call for nominations from the defined stakeholders to enhance composition of the Governing Council and the Board of Trustees of the intervention agency.
“Since Ogoni experiences high rainfall, which influences expansion of the pollution footprints and compounds our environmental nightmare attributable to the non-implementation of the report, further delay, as a matter of fact, would inflict on the report dire implications, which would require another study to validate earlier findings. The Ogoni people would therefore be greatly enlivened and satisfied at an urgent take-off of the clean-up and restoration exercise.”
MOSOP urged Ogoni people to realize that the commendable step taken by the federal government …Read More

Source:: PM Newspaper