- MOSOP has called on the federal government to act immediately to resolve the crisis emerging in the Ogoni region following the oil exploration and clean-up exercise there
- The group’s president, Leborsi Pyagbara, said the silent attitude of the Buhari-led government was fueling the crisis
- He raised an alarm over an impending doom brewing in the area and urged the government to intervene before the region experienced what happened in 1994 over again
The Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government has been blamed by the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) for the divisions and crisis emerging among Ogoni leaders and stakeholders over the resumption of oil exploration and clean-up process in the area, Vanguard reports.
The group’s position was made public by its president, Leborsi Pyagbara, who spoke in Port-Harcourt, the Rivers state capital, over the weekend.
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NAIJ.com gathers that Pyagbara chided the federal government for being silent on the crisis in Ogoni; stating that this attitude was fueling the volatile situation.
MOSOP raised an alarm over an impending doom brewing in the area, and urged the government to, as a matter of urgency, convene a dialogue between major players in the Ogoni issues to tame the situation.
He stated: “The federal government is responsible for the problem we are facing today. If they had done what they ought to do, we will not be facing the different groups that are emerging to endorse companies.
“If they had initiated a broad based discussion to resolve issues, we would not find ourselves in the mess we are in now.
“The oil money is always there to cause problem. There is need for the federal government to intervene before we experience what happened in 1994 again.”
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Meanwhile, NAIJ.com previously reported that a first class Ogoni monarch, His Royal Highness, Timothy Suanu Bari Dam, said that the cleanup of Ogoniland should not be taken for politics, saying the federal government should give every assistance needed to make the programme a great success.
The monarch, who is the chairman of Ogoni Traditional Rulers Council, disclosed that the former minister of environment, Aisha Mohammed, had good intentions for the project; hence, he advised the federal government to be sincere with the project and let permanent peace and good environment return to devastated area.
Traditional ruler laments non development of Ogoniland since Saro Wiwa died - on NAIJ.com TV:
Source: Naija.ng