We have engaged 400 companies for Ogoni clean-up - Federal government
- The federal government has taken another step further in cleaning up Ogoni land
- The minister for environment, Ibrahim Jibrin, said about 400 local and international companies have been engaged for the clean-up exercise
- Jibrin said that the contractors would be mobilised to site in August or September 2018
About 400 local and international companies have been engaged for the clean-up exercise of oil pollution in Ogoni land.
This was disclosed in Abuja on Monday, June 11 by the minister of state for environment, Ibrahim Jibrin, at the Nnimmo Bassey National Colloquium, Vanguard reports.
Legit.ng notes that the minister stated that the contractors would be mobilised to site in August or September 2018. He also said that government has developed a framework and time line for the Ogoni clean up which would last till December 2019.
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Nnimmo Bassey, who marked his 60th birthday, is an environmentalist, activist and a member of the board of Ogoni clean-up.
Jibrin noted that oil pollution in Ogoni land had destroyed mangrove and aquatic lives in the area, adding that the clean-up exercise would right the wrongs.
He said: “We have developed a framework and time frame that will take us to December 2019. A lot of broken promises have been made which made people to be suspicious even when we have assured them of our determination to clean the area.
“We are following up the framework religiously and we have engaged 400 companies, delineated 14 sites out of 26 and now doing the costing and procurement is just going on. We intend to move to site on August or September by the grace of God.”
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Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that the House of Representatives member representing Sagbama/Ekeremor federal constituency of Bayelsa state, Fred Agbedi raised an alarm over the flag-off of the Ogoni clean-up exercise.
Speaking to journalists in his state, Agbedi said the ceremony was President Muhammadu Buhari’s ‘photo-trick’ on the Ogoni people.
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Source: Legit.ng
