President Mohammadu Buahri has on Wednesday, August 5, approved for the cleaning up of oil spillage from Ogoni land.
The directive by the President was preceded by the United Nations Environmental Programme on the environmental restoration of Ogoniland.
Buhari also approved the compositions of the Governing Council and Board of Trustees of Hydrocarbon Pollution Restoration Project (HYPREP).
Members of the governing council and their representatives would include: Ministry of Petroleum Resources (One Representative), Federal Ministry of Environment (One Representative), Impacted States (Rivers) (One Representative) Oil Companies & NNPC (4 Representative), Ogoniland (2 Representatives), United Nations System (One Representative) while the Secretariat would be headed by Project Manager.
The Board of Trustees for the HYPREP Trust Fund would also have one representative each from the Federal Government, NNPC, International Oil Companies, Ogoniland and the United Nations.
A statement from the State House endorsed by the presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, was released to this effect.
The statement said: “A contribution deposit of 10 million United States dollars will be made by stakeholders within 30 days of the appointment of members of the Board of Trustees for the Trust Fund who will be responsible for collecting and managing funds from contributors and donors.”
