The Ogoni Kingdom Development Forum has pleaded with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to appoint a non-partisan nominee as the project coordinator of Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP).
The Joint-Chair of the forum, Professor Barika D. Saro-Laka, JP, said the key reason was that political nominees in the past failed woefully in delivering the official mandate of HYPREP, despite several billions of Naira spent.
Specifically, the forum has nominated two of its sons of Ogoni kingdom Dr. Life Kaanagbara OR Dr. John B. Idamkue, asking President Tinubu to consider any of them as the next Project Coordinator of HYPREP.
In a press conference in Abuja on Thursday, the group made a passionate plea to President Tinubu for the rescue of Ogoni Kingdom.
They implored Tinubu to sincerely help Ogoni Kingdom and her natives to experience, for the first time, rapid development through the instrumentality of the only federal presence on the soil of Ogoniland.
The group further said, “The huge sacrifices of some core Ogoni patriots (Ogoni 13) forced the establishment of HYPREP by the Federal Government of Nigeria and we want the Federal Government under the able leadership of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, to do the Right Thing, by appointing a non-political nominee to head this agency.
“The key reason is because political nominees in the past failed woefully in delivering the official mandate of HYPREP, despite several billions of Naira already spent.
“It is the plea of the masses of Ogoni that HYPREP should be an effective instrument for promoting the sustainable development and progress of Ogonis.
“Some politicians without conscience and their stooges have stolen enough in HYPREP while Ogoni people and the spirits of those who lost their lives for its creation, are unhappy and unfulfilled.”
