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President Jonathan promoting environmental terrorism in Ogoniland —MOSOP

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The Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People, MOSOP, said yesterday that the President Goodluck Jonathan led federal government was promoting environmental terrorism in Ogoniland, due to its refusal to implement the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on Ogoni environment.

This is as the organisation has declared August 4 yearly as Ogoni Environment Day, to create awareness of the environment degradation in Ogoniland as highlighted in the report of the United Nations agency.

MOSOP President, Mr. Legborsi Pyagbara stated this yesterday in Bori, headquarters of Khana local government area of Rivers State during a one-day seminar, with the theme; ‘UNEP Report and the Search for Environmental Justice’, to mark the fourth anniversary of the release of the UNEP report on Ogoni environment.

Pyagbara said the UNEP report was tantamount to a death sentence passed on the Ogoni people in view of the shocking findings and extent of devastation of the environment and the effects on the people, spanning four local government areas of Rivers State.

According to the MOSOP boss, “The UNEP report on Ogoni environment has been acknowledged as a death sentence passed on Ogoni people.

The report has raised awareness about one of the most challenging environmental issues of our days. “Today, Ogoni is facing multidimensional issue that requires integrated and collective actions, yet the government of Nigeria has no plan to deal with the environmental crisis in Ogoniland.

“The on-going environmental terrorism being committed against the Ogoni people by a government with a slumbering conscience; a government which has demonstrated in all sense that it cares little about the survival of Ogoni people; a government that has promoted positive actions for the continuous destruction of Ogoni environment, to deprive us of the benefits and services we can get from the natural resources in our environment,” he lamented.

He said it was not late for the apex government to begin the full implementation of the report, urging President Jonathan to immediately declare a state of emergency on the Ogoni environment.

Chairman of the occasion, Chief Stephen Kpeah, said the agitation for the implementation of the UNEP report on the Ogoni environment was beyond politics and enjoined all indigenes of Ogoni ethnic nationality to join in the struggle, their political affiliations notwithstanding.

In their messages of solidarity, Vice President of the Federation of Ogoni Women Associations (FOWA), Mrs. Gloria Nwanam, and former General- Secretary of MOSOP, Mr. Moses Damgbo, urged the Ogoni not to rest on their oars in the struggle for a better deal for the people and the restoration of their land, expressing optimism that victory was near.

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