Oil & Energy
MOSOP Moves Against Fresh Oil Exploration In Ogoni

The Movement for the Sur
vival of Ogoni people (MOSOP) has staged a peaceful protest in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital over alleged plan by an oil firm to commence fresh oil exploration in Ogoni land.
MOSOP, through its youth wing, the National Youth Council of the Ogoni people (NYCOP), barricaded the entrance of Novotel Hotel in Port Harcourt where some officials of the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC) and some Ogoni persons attempted to hold a workshop last week.
The placards carrying protesters sang solidarity songs, prevented vehicles and visitors from entering or leaving the premises of the hotel.
The Tide learnt that MOSOP had a few days ago alerted the nation that an oil firm (NPDC) officials were conniving with some faceless stakeholders from Ogoni in a plot to start oil exploration in the area.
The movement had threatened to carry out protest against the move, noting that the plan which was unacceptable to it was coming at a time Ogoniland was at a point of being cleaned up after decades of oil pollution.
The movement wondered why the oil company in collaboration with some persons from Ogoni should be in a rush to start oil exploration when the project to clean up the area was at its start up phase.
MOSOP warned those involved in the unpopular plot to desist, saying they would be held responsible over any negative consequences that might arise as a result of their plot.
It commended the efforts of the present administration in the Ogoni clean up programme and stressed that it would continue to support the project in the interest of Ogoni people who had suffered various sorts of hazards as a result of the oil pollution in the area.
Meanwhile, Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Friday restated the determination of Federal Government to clean up Ogoniland as well as other area of the Niger Delta impacted by oil pollution but stressed the need for peace in the areas to properly execute the project.
Osinbajo said this while receiving a delegation of Deeper Christian Life Church, led by the General Superintendent, Pastor William Kumuyi at Presidential Villa, Abuja, that the clean-up will take decades but with the phased implementation, people of the area could gradually return to fishing and farming.
“The clean-up of Ogoni is very important, the situation is very bad. I have been in the area a few times, but we need peace in the area to be able to carry on with the clean-up exercise,’ the V.P said.
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