OIL FIRMS PLOT TO DERAIL OGONI CLEAN-UP, MOSOP ALLEGES

Oil companies have been accused of scheming to derail the implementation of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report on Ogoniland. The Ogoni clean-up process was launched by President Muhammadu Buhari on June 2, 2016.

The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) which made the accusation also urged security agencies to tackle growing insecurity in the area due to small arms proliferation, drug abuse and alleged expansionist tendencies of some ethnic groups in Rivers State.

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OGONI: OUR OIL BLOCKS ARE NOT FOR SALE

THE Ogoni ethnic group in Rivers State, under the aegis of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP), have said the oil blocks in their land are nor for sale.

They spoke yesterday in Port Harcourt, the state capital, at the 19th memorial lecture in honour of the November 1995 hanging of nine Ogoni martyrs.

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