Been waiting avidly for news on d clean-up of d ND. This shows it isn't being swept under d carpet.





N-Delta militancy fuelled by non-
clean up of Ogoniland —Buhari
ON January 29, 2016 12:59 AM / IN
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By Levinus Nwabughiogu
ABUJA—President Muhammadu Buhari,
yesterday, in Nairobi, Kenya, said that non-
clean up of oil spillages in the Niger Delta
especially in Ogoniland, was responsible for
the militancy the region witnessed in times
past.
The president consequently vowed to clean
up the land by implementing the United
Nations Environmental Programme, UNEP’s
recommendations to save the land.
President Buhari made the promise during a
visit to the United Nations Office in the
Kenyan capital.
He also appealed for more support from the
United Nations in the clean up of the region.
He said: “When I came into office on May 29,
2015, one of the first tasks I carried out was
to authorise the implementation of the
recommendations of the UNEP report for
the clean-up of Ogoniland.
“The devastation caused by oil spillage has
destroyed many lives and livelihoods and is
clearly one of the reasons many people in
that region lost faith in government and
resorted to the many criminal activities we
are seeing in the region today.
“The action our government took to
implement UNEP’s recommendations has
given the indigenes of the region hope that
there are better days ahead. Let me,
therefore, express appreciation on behalf of
the Government of Nigeria to UNEP and
other development partners for their
cooperation and support on this very
delicate matter and also request for their
continued support as we implement the
recommendations and transform the
fortunes of the region.”
President Buhari also applauded the
outcome of the 21st session of the
Conference of the Parties (COP 21) to the
United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change, UNFCCC, held in Paris,
France, in December last year.
He called for rapid urbanization as the world
population increases.