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Article

23 Oct 2006

Author:
Ahamefula Ogbu, This Day [Nigeria]

Ogoni Spillage: UN Team Arrives [Nigeria]

Spill clean up experts from the United Nations Agency for Environment (UNEP) contracted to handle the remediation exercise in Ogoniland are billed to arrive the country next week...[The] head of the reconciliation team between the federal government, Shell Petroleum Development Corporation and Ogoni people, Reverend Father Matthew Hassan Kukah...[said] that the efforts was not political but aimed at ensuring a proper clean up of all oil spill sites across Ogoni land... The mediator explained that the cost of the clean up exercise would be borne by Shell under the “Polluters Pay Principles" (PPP) of the United Nations and charged Ogonis to provide adequate information to the experts when they arrive... Two weeks back, Ogonis under the aegis of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP)...had in a statement threatened to speak through violence if it was the only language understood by the federal government as their people had been thrown into darkness for more than four months while they lacked everything that makes life worth living in the area. In his response to the situation, Governor Odili urged Ogonis to cooperate with the UN team...