Ogonis Blast FG, HYPREP Over Comment On Electricity Project

President, Ogoni Liberation Initiative (OLI), Douglas Fabeke, has described as diversionary tactics, the statement by the Federal Government that it would connect Ogoniland to the national grid to help in sustaining Hydrocarbon Pollution Restoration Projects (HYPREP)’s water projects.
Recall that HYPREP‘s Coordinator, Dr Ferdinand Giadom, who represented the Minister of Environment at a stakeholder’s meeting, recently in Port Harcourt, had said the power project, in addition to an Ogoni Specialist Hospital, would boost the ongoing clean-up exercise.
But in a swift reaction, Fabeke said the statement was meant to divert attention from their protest letter submitted to HYPREP demanding accountability for the funds released for Ogoni clean-up.
He said it was misleading to have said that the planned power project would sustain HYPREP’s water projects because no such structures were visible in any Ogoni community.
Fabeke said it was worrisome that some Ogoni leaders and top government officials were playing politics with Ogoni clean-up, thereby jeopardising the efforts of late Ken Saro-Wiwa.
He pleaded with those in authority to rethink and do the right thing on the clean-up in the interest of the younger generation.
Fabeke, however, said he would use every legal means possible to compel HYPREP to respond to the protest letter for the sake of transparency.