Federal Government announces kick off date for Ogoni clean up-Flatimes

Saturday, 30 April 2016

Federal Government announces kick off date for Ogoni clean up


The Federal government will on June 2 launch the kick-off of Ogoni clean-up programme as contained in the United Nations Environment Programme Report, UNEP.

The Minister of Environment, Mrs Amina Muhammed, said this yesterday in Port Harcourt during a visit to Governor Nyeson Wike of Rivers State.

Represented by Minister of State for Environment, Ibrahim Usman said: “The programme is expected to be launched on June 2. It has been designed to be driven by all stakeholders in the region. The essence of this is to ensure that the people of Ogoni and the region at large benefitted from the process.”