BREAKING NEWS, Environment
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President Muhammadu Buhari approves actions to fast-track environmental clean-up of Ogoniland
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has resurrected the United Nations Environmental Programme, UNEP, report which recommended for the remediation of Ogoniland after it had been buried by the past President Goodluck Jonathan administration for more than four years.
According to a statement issued by Femi Adesina, special adviser to the president, Media and Publicity, which was made available to Realnews on Wednesday, August 5, “in keeping with his avowed commitment to working for the development and well-being of all Nigerians, Buhari approved several actions to fast-track the long delayed implementation of the United Nations Environmental Programme, UNEP, report on the environmental restoration of Ogoniland.”
The actions approved by President Buhari, based on recommendations to him by the executive director of UNEP, the UNEP special representative for Ogoniland, permanent secretaries of the federal ministries of environment and petroleum resources, and other stakeholders, include the amendment of the Official Gazette establishing the Hydrocarbon Pollution Restoration Project, HYPREP, to reflect a new governance framework comprising a Governing Council, a Board of Trustees and Project Management.
The president also approved that the HYPREP Governing Council should be comprise one representative each from ministry of petroleum resources, federal ministry of environment and impacted States (Rivers) while oil companies and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC should have four representatives. Also Ogoniland will have two representatives, and one from United Nations System.
The secretariat of the council should be headed by a project manager.
The president also approved the composition of a board of trustees for the HYPREP Trust Fund to comprise one representative each from the federal government, NNPC, International Oil Companies, Ogoniland, and United Nations System.
“Following a meeting held on the directive of President Buhari, it was also agreed that a contribution deposit of 10 million United States dollars will be made by stakeholders within 30 days of the appointment of members of the Board of Trustees for the Trust Fund who will be responsible for collecting and managing funds from contributors and donors. .
“A new implementation template has also been evolved at the instance of President Buhari, and the environmental clean-up of Ogoniland will commence in earnest with the President’s inauguration of the HYPREP Governing Council and the Board of Trustees for the Trust Fund,” Adesina said.
— August 5, 2015 @ 6:00 GMT
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For the staff of HYPREP that are being owed For over 30 months now, nobody is talking about paying them some are dead, some are sick I wonder if the president haven’t being briefed about it, doesn’t he care that patriotic nigerians are suffering and a being deprived of their rights….pls who ever is close to the president to pay this people ( I happen to be one of them)