Speaking during an inspection visit to HYPREP’s remediation site in K-Dere and the Mangroves Restoration Project in Bomu, both in the Gokana Local Government Area of Rivers State, a Director in NDDC’s Environmental Protection and Control Directorate, Dr Henry Okokon , emphasised the Commission’s commitment to tackling environmental degradation in the region.
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The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, revealed this in a statement issued on Saturday.
The notice of sack of the HYPREP Director was contained in a tweet on the official Twitter handle of the Presidency.
A statement by Saghir el Mohammed, Press Director, Ministry of Environment in Abuja, said that the aim of the project was to address environmental challenges in the country.
(Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project) over failure to clean up Ogoni land despite payment of $1 billion for the project.
He made the call in a statement on Wednesday in Port Harcourt.
The Federal Government on Monday says it is committed in cleaning up the hydrocarbon impact on communities in Ogoniland in spite of challenges being faced in the exercise.
The Federal Government said on Saturday that it was working to provide potable water for the Ogoni people in Rivers State as recommended by the UN Environment Programme Report on Ogoniland Clean-up.
The Hydrocarbon Pollution and Remediation Project says rising insecurity in Ogoniland will not deter the Federal Government from remediating decades of oil-impacted communities in the area.
HYPREP’s Project Coordinator, Dr Marvin Dekil, made the call in Port Harcourt at a meeting with members of the National Association of Persons with Disability in Ogoni.
The Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project on Monday opened a fresh bid to select 36 additional contractors for the remediation of oil impacted Ogoni communities in Rivers.
The Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People has dissociated itself from calls on the Federal Government to dissolve the Hydrocarbon Pollution and Remediation Project and its governing body.
The Federal Government on Tuesday said it has mobilised 16 contractors to carry out environmental remediation and cleanup of oil spill in Ogoniland.
The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People has described the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project as an organization stinking in corruption and a shameful representation of corruption in Nigeria.
The Netherland Ambassador to Nigeria, Robert Petri, has urged the Federal Government to immediately commence the cleanup exercise of Ogoniland before 2019 general elections.
GAN President, Chima William, commended the progress of work, at a meeting organised by the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, in Port Harcourt on Thursday.
Dr Marvin Dekil, Project Coordinator of HYPREP, made this known in Port Harcourt on Tuesday at the opening of technical and commercial bid for the 21 clean-up sites in Ogoniland.
Dekil gave the commendation at a ceremony to mark handover of the expansive land to HYPREP in Lumene-Bangha, Khana Local Government Area of Rivers on Wednesday.
Dekil made the disclosure on Tuesday on the sidelines of a medical outreach held by HYPREP for indigent Ogonis in Ogale, Eleme Local Government Area of Rivers.
The staff had appealed to the committee members to intervene in their matter because all appeals made in writing to the project’s supervising ministry to pay their 18 months salary had been ignored.