Ogoni youths under the aegis of the National Youth Council of Ogoni People (NYCOP) has called for prudence management of funds meant for the clean up of polluted sites in the area.
The NYCOP President, Dr Young Nkpa, made the call in Port Harcourt on Friday.
Nkpa said that the youth body would do everything possible to monitor all activities surrounding the cleanup exercise.
The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, in June 2016 flagged off the oil spillage clean-up exercise in Bodo, Gokana Local Government Area of Rivers State.
A United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) scientific study released in 2011 exposed the large-scale, continued contamination of the water and soil in Ogoniland and the serious threat they posed to human health.
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