Ogoni clean-up: Inclusion of compensation would’ve triggered war –Monarch

Friday Amobi, Port Harcourt

The Chairman of the Supreme Council of Ogoni Traditional Rulers, His Royal Majesty, Chief Godwin Gininwa, Gbene-Mene of Tai, has thanked the United Nations for not including compensation for citizens in their environmental programme report on Ogoniland.

The monarch spoke at his home country, Korokoro in Tai Local Government Area of the state during a sensitisation visit of Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project in Korokoro and Ueken communities.

          Gininwa, an ex-Chairman of the Rivers State Council of Traditional Rulers, expressed happiness that the United Nations in the report did not recommend that compensation be made to anybody, noting that the compensation would have ignited fighting and killing in the area.

“One thing I enjoy is that there is no compensation. If there were, we would have killed ourselves. They tied the whole process around projects. It is commendable. What we need is that you give our youths jobs because they will not come for any compensation,” he said.

Gininwa regretted that the clean-up of the impacted sites in Ogoni had not commenced and urged the Federal Government to ensure speedy commencement of the remediation.

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