Ogoni, Costly Bride For Oil Firms – KAGOTE

The pan Ogoni socio-ciltural organisation, KAGOTE has described Ogoni land as a costly bride being wooed by various prospecting oil companies because of its enormous potentials in oil and gas reserves.
President of the foremost elitist organisation in Ogoni, Dr Peter Medee disclosed this while speaking with The Tide oil and energy correspondent, at Bara-obara community in Tai Local Government Area, at the weekend.
He said, “Ogoni was open for more oil firms to come, but insisted that proper negotiations must be made with all relevant stakeholders in Ogoni in line with international best practices before oil exploration can take place in the area”.
Commenting on the emergence of splinter groups in Ogoni, Dr Medee, said the emergence of such group was as a result of the great awareness created in the area, noting that such development was an elixir to the struggle.
While reaffirming the mandate of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni people as the mass based movement for the Ogoni, he said other groups are expected to play supportive rather than antagonistic roles in the actualisation of the Ogoni struggle.
Dr Medee who is also a senior lecturer at the University of Port Harcourt assured that KAGOTE as the foremost elitist organisation in Ogoni, will not rest on its oars in ensuring that the Ogoni struggle actualise its fundamental objectives of political, economic and environmental justice in the Nigerian state.