Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) said it
accepts the Hydro-carbon Pollution Restoration Programme (HYPREP) for the
implementation of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report for
the clean-up of Ogoniland. However, MOSOP expressed dissatisfaction that it
took the government one year to commence the implementation of the UNEP report
despite the urgency of the situation.
In a statement which was jointly signed by the Chairman of
MOSOP Provisional Council, Professor Ben Naanen, and a member of the Council
and Bishop of the Ogoni Diocese of Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Rev.
Solomon Gberegbara, MOSOP said the decision to accept HYPREP was taken at the
congress of the Ogoni people held at the Peace and Freedom Centre, Bori, to
mark one year of the release of UNEP Report.
The Federal Government had announced the setting up of
HYPREP for the restoration of areas devastated by oil pollution in the Niger
Delta.
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