According to the Federal Government, $360 million has been spent on cleaning up the Niger Delta’s polluted Ogoni territory.
This was recently revealed by the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project Coordinator, Prof. Nenibarini Zabbey, after a four-day visit of the project sites that had been cleaned up in the Ogoni local governments of River State.
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He claimed that attempts to rebuild the Ogoni people’s way of life after oil spills have begun to show results.
“We are also mandated to restore the livelihoods of the people. I know that the board of trustees has released about $360,000,000. We have not exhausted that amount. We are still paying the contractors”, he stated.