Minister of
Environment Surv Suleiman Hassan
Minister of
Environment Surv Suleiman Hassan Zarma
Ogoni cleanup: FG Charges Contractors on Quality
work
The Federal Government has approved five new contractors for the
Ogoni clean-up.
Minister of Environment, Alhaji Suleiman Zarma disclosed this on
Tuesday in Abuja when he met the new contractors recently approved
by the Federal Executive Council in addition to the 16 existing
contractors.
The Minister urged the contractors who will handle the
remediation of the oil spills in Ogoniland to deliver quality
work.
He urged the contractors to rise up and support the Federal
Government’s efforts in defending the Ogoni clean-up project.
According to him, “it is important for you to defend your work
because the contract affects your work and subsequent work you will
apply for.
The Project Coordinator, Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation
Project (HYPREP), Dr Marvin Dekil in his remarks stated that a
robust process was adopted in arriving at selecting contractors for
the project.
Dekil said that the contractors were competent and that some of
them had technical partners abroad to jointly deliver quality
work.
He assured that they would remediate Ogoni oil spill to meet
best practices and standard.
The Project Management Consultant, Mr Eric Onyeiwu, said that he
would ensure that the contract is executed inline with
specifications within the agreed time.
Saghir el Mohammed
Director Press
Federal Ministry of Environment