Ogoni Clean-Up: 17 Polluted Sites Completely Remedied — FG

The Federal Government has assured it is on course with the
remediation process of oil-polluted sections of Ogoniland.

It said 17 sites had already been cleaned up and certified
cleaned.

Minister of Environment, Mohammed Mahmoud, who disclosed this to
State House Correspondents after the week’s virtual Federal
Executive Council FEC meeting in the Presidential Villa, Abuja,
also assured the various other components of the clean-up agreement
are being attended to as the main process progresses.

According to him, the budget for the administrative body, which
is overseeing the clean-up process, the Hydrocarbon Pollution
Remediation Project (HYPREP, was just passed on Tuesday.

Mahmoud said that government had awarded contracts for six water
projects in the area while 400 Ogoni women have been graduated in
various small businesses in agriculture, aquaculture, poultry and
others.

According to him: “And so far, so good, I can tell you that
project has moved forward, we have about 17 contaminated sites that
have been cleaned up and certified, clean. And then just recently
also, we awarded contracts for six water project, this water
project should have been awarded earlier from the very beginning of
the project.

“But we awarded that about over 6 billion Naira. Again, we’re
working towards additional eight water projects that will be coming
very soon. In fact, we just get the approval to advertise for that
and also to go into the complex side.”

He said that the government was still working on the simple side
of the project and the complex side would be coming soon, adding
that it will include remediation of the soil and the
groundwater.

“So the project is moving fast, we are catching up the little
time we have lost in the last couple of years, especially because
of the COVID also, but so far, so good,” he said

The Federal Government has assured it is on course with the
remediation process of oil-polluted sections of Ogoniland.

It said 17 sites had already been cleaned up and certified
cleaned.

Minister of Environment, Mohammed Mahmoud, who disclosed this to
State House Correspondents after the week’s virtual Federal
Executive Council FEC meeting in the Presidential Villa, Abuja,
also assured the various other components of the clean-up agreement
are being attended to as the main process progresses.

According to him, the budget for the administrative body, which
is overseeing the clean-up process, the Hydrocarbon Pollution
Remediation Project (HYPREP, was just passed on Tuesday.

Mahmoud said that government had awarded contracts for six water
projects in the area while 400 Ogoni women have been graduated in
various small businesses in agriculture, aquaculture, poultry and
others.

According to him: “And so far, so good, I can tell you that
project has moved forward, we have about 17 contaminated sites that
have been cleaned up and certified, clean. And then just recently
also, we awarded contracts for six water project, this water
project should have been awarded earlier from the very beginning of
the project.

“But we awarded that about over 6 billion Naira. Again, we’re
working towards additional eight water projects that will be coming
very soon. In fact, we just get the approval to advertise for that
and also to go into the complex side.”

He said that the government was still working on the simple side
of the project and the complex side would be coming soon, adding
that it will include remediation of the soil and the
groundwater.

“So the project is moving fast, we are catching up the little
time we have lost in the last couple of years, especially because
of the COVID also, but so far, so good,” he said