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FG to complete Ogoni cleanup in 2024 with $1bn ― NOSDRA DG

by Tribune Online
October 16, 2019
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Ogoniland, NOSDRA rules

Director-General, National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA), Mr Musa Idris on Wednesday disclosed that 21 contractors were currently working to clean up Ogoniland and that the exercise will be completed in 2024.

He also lamented activities of crude oil thieves and illegal crude refining as they are responsible for 70 per cent of oil spillage.

At a media interaction on activities of NOSDRA in Abuja, Idris added that 36 other contractors were currently undergoing procurement processes that will escalate the number of contractors working on the project by the end of 2019 to 57.

“However, when you clean up, devoid of any further pollution that is if everybody has agreed that we will not pollute Ogoniland from today on.

“Given that the oil companies are able to make sure that their pipelines have high integrity, there will be no equipment failure and there will be no more oil pollution by the oil companies.

“Again, we must agree that there will be no more wanton vandalism of oil facilities by Nigerians. With these variables, we can say in five years, we would have been able to clean up Ogoniland.

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According to him, it is not correct to say that the cleanup will last for 25 years.

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“Even if it is the entire state that was polluted, it will not take 25 years to clean up. It will take only five years through a sequence of planning to clean up all oil impacted sites in Ogoniland because they were segmented into less impacted, medium impacted and highly impacted.”

He nonetheless explained that it may take up to 25 years to bring the land to completely restore the oil impacted places.

“If a seedling of mango enters the ground today, by the time it gets to the point where it becomes matured and you can seat under it to rest and take fresh air, it will be going to between 20 to 25 years.

“That is total restoration. Cleanup wouldn’t take time because the technology is there, the manpower is there, and the resources are there.


Idris said the four Ogoni local governments were divided into less impacted, medium impacted and highly impacted portions adding that some contractors have achieved between 25 and 30 per cent completion even though the contracts were awarded early in 2019.

“Right now, the contractors are at different levels of work. Some have achieved 25 to 30 per cent and they were awarded just at the beginning of this year.”

He noted that the agency, which was established by Act 15 of 2006 to implement National Oil Spill Contingency Plans had restored thousands of polluted areas and had sanctioned numerous national and international oil companies operating in the country.



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