Slow results in ogoni clean up Centre LSD

By Punarimam Fehintola

The  African Centre for Leadership, Strategy & Development (Centre LSD)says it is concerned over the slow nature of the ogoni clean up which has been on since 2016.

Monday Osasa the executive director said though the results have been slow in coming, they are hopeful that the government will do the needful to speed up the process.

Osasa disclosed this during a town hall organised by centre LSD with the support of Cordaid via Zoom to discuss the way forward for the project.  

The Executive Secretary further added that ‘our motivation is that we are no longer where we used to be as far as the clean up is concerned, but the truth remains that we have really not reached our intended destination’. 

He also said it’s time to take stock of the progress made so far and to know a possible way forward for the Ogoni people. ‘Thus necessitates the need for stock taking, an underlying reason for today’s convening’.

Monday Osasa added that the interrogation shall help to examine the issues from diverse perspectives, government, community, operators and civil society. ‘We shall look to know the reimbursement pattern for jobs and the regularity of payments, as well as the role played by independent monitors including community-based monitors if at all in the entire exercise’.

The town hall meeting is tagged “Ogoni clean up: where are we?