The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has taken a swipe at the Federal Government over its alleged plan to build a maximum-security prison facility with modern cemetery in Ogoniland, Legborsi Pyagbara, its President, disclosed on Sunday.

Pyagbara said MOSOP authoritatively gathered that the plan had been concluded by the Federal Ministry of Interior and would involve the seizure of over forty-one (41) hectares of land in Bori, Ogoni where arable land had been conspicuously difficult to find.


The MOSOP President said the group was vehemently opposed to the plan being hatched by the Federal Government against the Ogoni people.

“This action is a demonstration of crass insensitivity and a total disdain for the Ogoni people by the Buhari-led administration.
“It is so unfortunate that while we lament that the biggest social event these days in Ogoniland are only burial ceremonies occasioned by the scientifically proven unprecedented pollution of Ogoni caused by reckless exploitation, we deeply bemoan the failure of the Federal Government to institute a proper clean-up and remediation of Ogoni environment to halt the increasing death of our people rather than being served with a new plot of a devious arrangement of prison and cemetery,” he said.

The group added, “MOSOP is appalled by the sequence of these events which gives a gory picture of a broader plot to invade and occupy Ogoniland for possible resumption of oil production.

“First, it started last year with the army protected laying of pipelines across Ogoniland, followed by the dubious and despicable attempts at resumption of oil production with companies fighting over the Ogoni Oil Bloc, causing crisis in the area and now the proposed building of a maximum security prison facility and cemetery for the intended mass detention and mass burial of Ogoni people that will be resulting from the protests that will greet this plot against our people.

“We want to stress that this plan to build a maximum security prison facility and modern cemetery in Ogoni would never be acceptable to our people because we see this as a broader attempt to suppress the people and forcefully begin oil and gas exploration in the area without any constructive engagement and discussion with the Ogoni people.”


MOSOP reminded the Federal Government of Nigeria that what the Ogoni people want from the government now is the appropriate and fast-paced clean-up and restoration of Ogoniland and not the building of maximum security prison facilities.


“We declare to the government of Nigeria that what we want now is the deliberate commitment to investment and sustainable development of Ogoni such as the building of the long approved Industrial parks in the area and not the building of cemeteries.

“Instead of giving us what we want, the government has concluded plans to build maximum security prison facility and cemetery. If the idea is to suppress the people’s will to resist the government and her oil industry collaborators, then it is a miscalculation. We will resist it with the last drop of our blood.

“We call on all Ogoni people to remain vigilant. We call on the supporters of the Ogoni struggle and the international community to join us in condemning this attempt by the government of Nigeria to enthrone another circle of arrests, detention and deaths in Ogoniland,” the group said in a statement.



https://diasporareporters.com/fg-build-maximum-security-prison-cemetary-ogoniland-mosop-furious/

They are yet to deliver on the cleaned up of Ogoniland, but are quick to want to grab land for prison and cemetery.

I guess that would be the developmental project Buhari would use in campaigning in Bori come 2019.

Buhari is mad

That is what Amaechi, Magnus Abe and Uchendu want for Ogoni people. Instead of doing the right thing that shows whatever so-called advantage there could be to being 'connected to the centre', na burial ground and prison dem say good for Ogoni n Rivers.

God punish devil!

Nigeria is nothing but INSIDE WORLD as FELA said.
Is this what you can see in other developed world?
In ZOO they always think like ANIMALS.