31 Years After Tragedy, Tinubu Honours Ogoni 4 With CON

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu connected Wednesday conferred posthumous nationalist honours of Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON) connected the precocious Ogoni leaders collectively remembered arsenic the “Ogoni Four” — Albert Badey, Edward Kobani, Theophilus Orage and Samuel Orage.

The President announced the conferment portion receiving the study of the Ogoni Consultations Committee astatine the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

The 4 salient Ogoni chiefs were killed successful 1994 successful Giokoo community, Gokana Local Government Area of Rivers State, during an outbreak of communal strife.

Speaking astatine the ceremony, Tinubu urged the Ogoni radical to clasp reconciliation and unity aft decades of division. He prayed that the memories of the slain leaders would proceed to animate courageousness and a consciousness of intent successful Nigeria.

“I impulse the Ogoni radical crossed classes, communities and generations to adjacent ranks, enactment this acheronian section down america and determination guardant arsenic a agreed assemblage with 1 voice,” helium stated.

The President besides directed the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, to pb caller engagements successful the Niger Delta to reconstruct bid and accelerate development.

Tinubu reaffirmed his administration’s committedness to biology remediation, economical revival, and sustainable improvement successful Ogoniland. He confirmed plans to facilitate the resumption of lipid accumulation successful the area, which had been suspended since 1993 pursuing unrest and biology protests.

“I americium encouraged by the overwhelming statement of the Ogoni communities to invited the resumption of lipid production. The authorities volition deploy each assets to enactment your radical successful this march towards shared prosperity,” the President said.

Earlier, Ribadu presented the study of the Ogoni consultations, noting that it captured the demands of each 4 Ogoni zones and the diaspora, including calls for accelerated cleanup and inclusive information successful lipid production.

He assured the Tinubu medication would strictly instrumentality the directives, consolidating bid and correcting past injustices.