Group Faults HYPREP On Ogoni Clean-Up

A factional president of
the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP), Mr. Feyalo Nsuke has described the purported move by the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) to commence the clean-up of Ogoniland as a big scam.
Mr. Nsuke who said this in a press release made available to The Tide in Port Harcourt also described the purported move as an alleged attempt by HYPREP to spend clean-up funds ahead of the 2019 general elections.
He said that HYPREP is not adhering to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Report on the clean-up of Ogoniland.
According to him “What HYPREP is doing is a ruse. There is no way you can commence such a massive exercise without providing an alternative source of drinking water and having a way to manage the wastes.
“The report says there should be an integrated soil management centre in place to manage the wastes from the sites but HYPREP now want to turn our communities into dumping sites,” adding that, the Ogonis will resists it.
He said there is noting that HYPREP is doing that is different from what Shell had done which UNEP report condemned.
“HYPREP is scamming us and we want to make it clear that they want to spend our cleanup funds and possibly create crisis in Ogoniland.”
Efforts to reach HYPREP on the matter however proved abortive.
Meanwhile, Fegalo Nsuke has charged the Ogonis to unite for the task ahead. Addressing members of the MOSOP Steering Committee in Bori, he expressed confidence that the new MOSOP executives and affiliate heads can save the Ogoni nation from discrimination and the death sentence of over 50 years of massive pollution.
“I am confident we can save Ogoniland. We have a huge task because today over 50 persons die weekly in the coastal communities in Gokana alone and all that HYPREP is doing is to see what they can do to spend cleanup funds ahead of 2019 elections” he said.
Meanwhile, the Gbokabari Ogoni has faulted the Federal Government for refusing to implement holistically the UNEP report on the cleanup of Ogoniland.
The organisation which said this at a news conference in Port Harcourt said that the Federal Government has not implemented any of the emergency measures recommended in the UNEP report.
The group specifically said that UNEP identified some emergency measures such as provision of adequate sources of drinking water to the affected areas, posting of signs in areas where hydrocarbons were observed on surface water as well as ensuring that those who drink water from contaminated sources are medically examined amongst other.