Over 30 civil society teams, led by the Motion for the Survival of the Ogoni Individuals (MOSOP) staged a peaceable protest on Monday in components of Ogoniland in Rivers State over the Federal Authorities’s resolution to renew oil exploration within the area.
Different teams that participated within the march embody: the Nationwide Youth Council of Ogoni Individuals (NYCOP), the Federation of Ogoni Ladies’s Associations (FOWA), the Ogoni Dwelling Martyrs, and the Ogoni Peace and Unity Discussion board, amongst others.
On the protest on Monday in Bori, protesters have been armed with placards carrying varied inscriptions comparable to “Clear Ken Saro Wiwa Identify now,” “No to forceful oil resumption,” “We would like justice for Ogoni 9,” “Ribadu and Mitee depart Ogoni oil alone,” “Cease the Ogoni genocide,” and “No exoneration, no oil resumption in Ogoniland.”
Protesters’ calls for
The protesting teams made the next calls for:
- Justice for Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni Eight, who have been executed in 1995 for his or her intense advocacy towards environmental air pollution and human rights abuses by the oil corporations and the army regimes.
- Exoneration of Ken Saro-Wiwa, relatively than a pardon, as he was denied a good listening to by Basic Sani Abacha.
- Inclusion of all stakeholders, together with MOSOP, within the strategy of oil resumption
- A halt of the method led by the Workplace of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) and the initiation of a brand new clear course of that can accommodate the views and considerations of the Ogoni individuals.
- Granting of operational licenses to Indigenous Ogoni corporations to drill oil, and unbundling of OML11
- Provision of compensation to the Ogoni individuals for the lack of livelihoods because of years of environmental air pollution.
- A panel of inquiry into the dying of the Ogoni 4, who have been killed at Giokoo, and for whose dying the army regime of Abacha convicted Saro-Wiwa and eight different Ogoni activists.
Addressing protesters on the Peace Park in Bori, the President of MOSOP, Fegalo Nsuke maintained that MOSOP championed the struggles that led to the tip of oil drilling in Ogoni within the 90s, so the group can’t be excluded from the method of resuming oil drilling by the federal government.
“There can’t be oil resumption in any a part of Ogoni with out inputs from MOSOP management,” Nsuke declared.
“We won’t settle for any resolution that’s imposed on us with out our enter. We are going to resist any try to marginalize us or to disregard our rights,” he added.
The President of NYCOP, Comrade Barinuazor Emmanuel, careworn that the calls for of the teams should be met earlier than oil exploration might be allowed to renew in Ogoniland.
He mentioned, “Ken Saro-Wiwa was not responsible of any crime. He was a hero who fought for the rights of the Ogoni individuals, and his identify should be cleared.”
Emmanuel appealed to the nationwide safety adviser to name the Ogoni political class to order, as their actions could sabotage the president’s plan for a peaceable oil resumption course of.
“We’re not asking for an excessive amount of. We would like the federal authorities to acknowledge our rights as Ogoni individuals and to contain us within the decision-making course of concerning oil exploration in our land,” Emmanuel mentioned.
What you need to know
- Nairametrics reported that in January, President Bola Tinubu introduced his administration’s resolution to renew oil exploration in Ogoniland, over 30 years after oil corporations have been chased out of the area by protests.
- The President arrange a committee headed by the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, to dialogue with stakeholders within the area and guarantee them of peace, improvement, and environmental restoration.
- Nonetheless, we reported that the dialogue is failing as main stakeholders, notably MOSOP, which was on the forefront of the wrestle within the 80s and 90s, have accused the NSA workforce of not following the President’s directions.
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