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OGONI CLEANUP: FOUR YEARS AFTER FLAG-OFF; HYPREP NEEDS MORE 22 YEARS TO COMPLETE FIRST FIVE YEARS’ WORK

PRESS RELEASE JUNE 2, 2020 As today, June 2, 2020 marks four (4) years after the flag-off of Ogoni Cleanup on June 2, 2016, Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (simply called YEAC or ADVOCACY CENTRE), a nongovernmental organization that has been monitoring the implementation of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) Report 2011 on Ogoniland…

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HYPREP: DO NOT AWARD NEW CLEAN-UP CONTRACTS WITHOUT ADDRESSING EMERGENCY MEASURES IN OGONILAND!

Press Release HYPREP: DO NOT AWARD NEW CLEAN-UP CONTRACTS WITHOUT ADDRESSING EMERGENCY MEASURES IN OGONILAND! While speaking on an Environmental Parliament program on WISH, 99.5FM Port Harcourt by 10AM this morning, I called on Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) NOT to award new clean-up contracts in Ogoni without addressing issues around emergency measures as recommended…

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