Activist Urges Ogonis To Support Clean-Up Project

An environmental rights activist, Nnimmo Bassey, has called on Nigerians and Ogonis to support the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) in the on-going clean-up of Ogoniland.
Bassey made the call when he led a delegation of members of Oil Watch Africa from 15 African countries to HYPREP on an assessment visit to some remediation sites in Ogoniland, recently.
Receiving the team, the Project Coordinator of HYPREP, Dr Marvin Barinem Dekil who explained the processes adopted by HYPREP in the clean-up, informed the team that the clean-up project commenced eight years after the report was submitted to the federal government of Nigeria by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
He stated that the time between the date of submission in 2011 and 2016 when the clean-up was officially flagged off by President Buhari necessitated the review and modification of some of the strategies recommended in the report.
The project coordinator said the review and modification of some of the strategies does not mean that HYPREP has deviated.
While inspecting one of the remediation sites, Bassey expressed satisfaction with the works HYPREP is doing and confirmed that remediation has commenced in Ogoniland.