Pictures: Ogoni Clean up, a Lifeline For the Niger Delta –Boroh
Brigadier General Paul Boroh (Rtd)
Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and Coordinator of the
Presidential Amnesty Programme has described the Clean-up of Ogoni as both an
environmental and economic lifeline for the Niger Delta.
In his comments on the exercise
which was flagged off by the Federal Government on Thursday in Ogoni, Rivers
State, he said the Clean-up is the best thing to happen to the Region
in many years. The Amnesty Programme Coordinator said long years of
oil exploitation, spills and abandonment had made many parts of the Niger Delta
unsafe for human habitation and economically, unviable.
He said apart from restoring the
environment, the Clean- up will in the in short term lead to mass
youth employment and revival of sustainable economic activities
while on the long run, the people will return to their profession of farming
and fishing.
General Boroh said the Clean-up will
also greatly assist the Presidential Amnesty Programme to engage ex-agitators
in sustainable employment adding that the exercise fits in perfectly with the
Programmes’s current phase of sustainably integrating all the 30,000
beneficiaries of the Amnesty Programme.
He also said that the Clean-up will
greatly enhance the Exit Strategy component of the Amnesty Programme which will
free funds for the training and empowerment of more beneficiaries of the
Programme, adding that the Clean-up was a major plank of agitations in the
Niger Delta and that apart from it being the fulfillment of dreams, it is
also an assurance that other polluted parts of the Region will be cleaned up.
He appealed to people, especially the
youths in the Region to support the exercise
and ensure the move is irreversible by shunning pipe line
vandalism which can only lead to more spills. The Special Adviser to
the President on Niger Delta said grievances and disagreements are human, but
that the means of resolving issues can either lead to positive results or
further complication of matters.
General Boroh who stated that
his experience in Peace Keeping at the level of United Nations taught him that
all conflicts, no matter how long they take, end up at the negotiation table, urged
all groups in the Region who have grievances to come forward, rather than
resort to violence, destruction and degradation of the environment.
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