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Work is yet to begin on the cleanup of Ogoniland a month after President Muhammadu Buhari flagged off the exercise, Daily Independent reports.
Contractors are yet to begin work on cleaning up the polluted lands, reports say.
According to HRH Suanu Baridam, the Chairman, Council of Ogoni Traditional Rulers (COTRA), contractors cannot be mobilised to site because the necessary machinery aren't in place..
“How can anybody talk of contractors going to site when they (federal government) have not set up the committees that will steer the process? Which committee will manage the funds when it is eventually released for the clean-up?
“My take on this matter, as an Ogoni, is that the federal government should refrain from further delay and hit the ground running with the clean-up. Ogoni and indeed the whole world are watching with keen interest on what will happen next after the flag-off”.
He said government should hasten the process "so that the people’s confidence in the federal government can be restored again.”
Contractors are yet to begin work on cleaning up the polluted lands, reports say.
According to HRH Suanu Baridam, the Chairman, Council of Ogoni Traditional Rulers (COTRA), contractors cannot be mobilised to site because the necessary machinery aren't in place..
“How can anybody talk of contractors going to site when they (federal government) have not set up the committees that will steer the process? Which committee will manage the funds when it is eventually released for the clean-up?
“My take on this matter, as an Ogoni, is that the federal government should refrain from further delay and hit the ground running with the clean-up. Ogoni and indeed the whole world are watching with keen interest on what will happen next after the flag-off”.
He said government should hasten the process "so that the people’s confidence in the federal government can be restored again.”
