The Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) has 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.

The Federal Government last Monday announced the setting up of HYPREP for the restoration of areas devastated by oil pollution in the Niger Delta.

In a statement issued in Port Harcourt Wednesday, MOSOP however expressed dissatisfaction that it took the government one year to commence the implementation of the UNEP report despite the urgency of the situation.

The 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, 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 statement however said the congress accepted HYPREP because of the realisation that most other parts of the Niger Delta region also suffered from oil-related pollution and the guarantee given to Ogoni people by the Federal Government on the implementation of the UNEP report.

The guarantees extracted from representatives of HYPREP and NOSDRA, according to the statement, include that: “The UNEP recommendations on Ogoni will be fully and faithfully implemented irrespective of HYPREP’s intervention in other areas;
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The one billion US dollars recommended by UNEP as start-up fund for Ogoni clean-up for the first five years must be spent on Ogoni alone. This development should not become an avenue for making money because people are suffering and the FGN should make it it's agenda to monitor every step carried out in that community.

one billion US dollars!!!! person done hammer , MOSOP shine ur eye 4 ur people & land ooooo,Considering the tradition of poor project implementation in Nigeria and people who want make some thing 4 dem sef. A word is enough 4 d wise...