President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has pledged his commitment to unlocking Ogoniland’s human and natural resource potential while ensuring Nigerian communities’ environmental and economic security.
The President stated this when he received members of the Supreme Council of Traditional Rulers of Ogoni, Rivers State, at the State House.
The President also said his administration would “pursue diligently and honourably” the Ogoni cleanup and increase the number of its indigenes benefitting from its empowerment programmes.
“There is equally the Ogoni cleanup programme that I inherited. That will be pursued diligently and honourably. The number of people we will empower will increase as time goes on,” he said.
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The council was led by King Samuel Nnee, Gbenemene Tai Kingdom and Paramount Ruler of Kpite Tai.
Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, made the disclosure in a statement he signed Wednesday titled, ‘President Tinubu to Ogoni leaders: we will unlock the human and natural resource potential of Ogoniland.’
Ogoni Cleanup Project, formally known as the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project, was initiated to address several environmental degradation in Ogoniland, a region in Nigeria’s Niger Delta.
