‘Fed Govt Can’t Nominate Representatives For Ogoni In HYPREP, Trust Fund Boards’

A group, the Ogoni Development and Democracy Forum (ODDF), has said it is incorrect for the national authorities to nominate representatives for Ogoni radical successful the governing boards of the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) and the Ogoni Trust Fund (OTF).

ODDF convener, Legborsi Pyagbara, who disclosed this portion briefing journalists successful Port Harcourt yesterday, said the contiguous effort to seizure the task would beryllium resisted astatine each costs.

Pyagbara stated that the Ogoni Trust Fund was created with 3 stakeholders: the national government, the lipid companies and the Ogoni people, saying that it was agreed that each stakeholder radical should beryllium allowed to nominate its ain representative.

“Let maine authorities from the onset that the Ogoni clean-up and  ecosystem rehabilitation task was not a acquisition from the authorities of Nigeria. It is simply a merchandise of definitive corporate conflict of Ogoni radical arsenic engendered by the peaceful and non-violent gyration of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People.

“This gyration created struggle that necessitated a dialog process, archetypal by conducting an biology appraisal process undertaken by the United Nations. This was followed by different circular of dialog process involving the government, the Ogoni radical led by MOSOP and the lipid companies, led by Shell.

“These 3 stakeholders went into dialog of adjacent stakeholders, nether the usher of the United Nations’ secretary- general’s peculiar envoy connected UNEP Report, Hon. Eric Soroh.

“The dialog centered Ogoni radical astatine the bosom of the project. The contiguous effort to seizure the task volition beryllium resisted astatine each costs.

“The Ogoni Trust Fund was created with 3 stakeholders: the national government, archetypal represented by the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources, and aboriginal the Federal Ministry of Environment, the lipid industry, led by Shell Petroleum, present replaced  by Reinessance and the Ogoni people, led by MOSOP.

“In presumption of decision the governing operation of HYPREP and the spot fund, each of the stakeholder-groups are expected to nominate their ain representatives successful the governing operation of these institutions.

“Just arsenic the national authorities cannot nominate for the lipid industry, who represents them connected the governing committee of HYPREP and the spot fund, they person nary concern nominating representatives for Ogoni radical successful these 2 boards,” helium said.