The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday approved the sum of ₦129.8 billion for various projects in the Niger Delta Ministry, especially for the Ogoni clean-up project which has lingered on for many days.
This was disclosed to journalists by the Senior Special Assistant to the President, Garba Shehu, after the FEC meeting chaired by the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo which lasted for over seven hours on Wednesday.
According to him, the money would be used for the second phase of the Ogoni water project and the central remediation of newly-identified hydrocarbon-impacted sites.
Shehu said the money would be used for the water project while ₦107 billion was awarded for the remediation of the newly identified hydro-carbon impacted sites along the shoreline of Ogoni land.
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Also speaking, the Minister of Water Resources, Suleiman Adamu, assured Nigerians that ongoing projects in the country won’t be abandoned by the incoming administration of Bola Tinubu.
Africa Today News, New York recalls that a few weeks ago, a fresh Oil spill had occurred in Ebubu Community in Eleme Local Government Area (Ogoniland) of Rivers State.
The alarm was raised in Port Harcourt by a non-governmental organisation known as Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC-Nigeria).
The Executive Director of YEAC-Nigeria, Fyneface Dumnamene Fyneface, disclosed that the spill had been ongoing for the past three days and there was no sign of containing it soonest.
Fyneface said: ‘As part of Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre’s (YEAC-Nigeria) Crude Oil Spill Alert System (COSAS), the organization wishes to alert members of its network, the authorities, the media and the general public that an oil spill has occurred in Ebubu community in Eleme.’
The spill, according to the community sources, was suspected to have been caused by equipment failure, subject to Joint Investigation Visit (JIV) confirmation.