A socio-economic organisation in Ogoni land, Ogoni Liberation Initiative (OLI), says it is working with some technical experts to establish a green energy plant in Ogoni.
Executive Director of the group, Dr Douglas Fabeke, said this in an interview with The Tide in Port Harcourt.
He said the move was part of efforts by the organisation to reduce pollution as well as economically empower the people.
“We are going green. All this pollution in the environment is caused by a lot of things
“Not only oil exploration, so we are launching our products that will not use fuel”.
Fabeke said the organisation was investing in products that use energy directly from the sunlight.
According to him, apart from using Ogoni communities for the pilot stage of the project, the whole of the State and the rest of The Niger Delta will be mobilised into the project.
He said some Ogoni youths would be trained on how to man the facilities that will be built.
Speaking on the recent visit of Ogoni leaders to President Muhammadu Buhari, Fabeke said the visit was welcome but issues of pardon to Ken Saro-Wiwa was not welcome as the late environmental right activist was not a criminal.
He said he was not comfortable with the word pardon because Ken was not a criminal, adding that the issues that should have been tabled before the president ought to have been those of economic, environment, and youth empowerment.

By: John Bibor