By Brave Dickson
The President of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), Fegalo Nsuke, has called on President Bola Tinubu to dissolve all governing structures of the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) pending the conclusion of investigations into the finances of the agency.
Speaking in Ban Ogoi, Tai Local Government Area of Rivers State, the MOSOP president said HYPREP has been milked to death and President Tinubu should not allow himself to be stained in HYPREP’s loot.
“MOSOP wants to state that in the past seven years, HYPREP has been severely decimated by looters.
“We emphatically state that over $200Million cannot be accounted for in HYPREP. The organisation has been looted to death and it will only be immoral for the government to be silent over such monumental fraud.
“MOSOP expects President Tinubu to dissolve all governing structures of HYPREP, halt funding for the organisation and order a probe into its finances while a re-organisation is pending.
“Just three weeks to the expiration of President Buhari’s tenure, over N180 Billion was approved for HYPREP. The timing of the approvals raised some red flags and reinforces our suspicion that such requests from the Ministry of Environment and subsequent approvals could not have been made in good faith.
“The only way we the Ogoni people can begin to have some confidence in the cleanup process is that it has to be conducted transparently.
“People cannot spend over $800 million and the Ogoni people will not get water nor are people compensated for livelihood losses,” he said.
