{"id":5524,"date":"2015-08-10T15:53:38","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T15:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=5524"},"modified":"2015-08-10T15:53:38","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T15:53:38","slug":"buharis-ogoniland-clean-up-attempt-a-greek-gift-it-violates-unep-report-ogoni-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=5524","title":{"rendered":"Buhari’s Ogoniland clean-up attempt, a Greek gift, it \u201cviolates UNEP report\u201d – Ogoni Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite what many see as good intentions on his part, President Muhammadu Buhari has come under severe criticism from the leaders of Ogoniland for violating the technical demands of theUnited Nations Environmental Programme, UNEP report.<\/p>\n

President of the Ogoni Central Indigenous Authority OCIA, Goodluck Diigbo, stated that Buhari received the recommendations from \u201cnon-experts\u201d made up of the Executive Directo\"Buhari\"<\/a>\"Delta<\/a>r of UNEP, the UNEP Special Representative for Ogoniland, permanent secretaries of the Federal Ministries of Environment and Petroleum Resources, and others without recourse to the Ogonis.<\/p>\n

Buhari on Wednesday approved several actions to fast-track the long delayed implementation of UNEP of Ogoniland.<\/p>\n

Diigbo said that the recommendations, which were secret, and reliant on the recommendations of non-experts, were not only misguided, but, unacceptable.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince Buhari was part of the regime that hanged Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni activists, for demanding for the Environmental Impact Assessment Study, the now President Buhari, should have treated with caution in trying to override the disputed UNEP Report.
\n\u201cBuhari may have a good intention, but, his expressed intentions might deepen old wounds. For instance, Buhari avoided specific mention of recommendations by UNEP, including: Ogoniland Environmental Restoration Authority, Environmental Restoration Fund for Ogoniland, Centre of Excellence for Environmental Restoration and the $1 billion, considered grossly inadequate for take-off, is now missing.<\/p>\n

\u201cNext, we, the Ogoni people, are not aware of any Special UNEP Representative for Ogoniland. We don\u2019t have one. Buhari\u2019s intentions have created considerable confusion and resentment. Either, Buhari is conflicted, \u201ctricked\u201d by \u201cparties\u201d that corrupted the UNEP report or, just politics as usual.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor three years, they\u2019ve stood against genuine joint stakeholders\u2019 technical review \u2013 a prerequisite for due process, stipulated by UNEP, World Bank, IMF, US and others,\u201d Diigbo said.<\/p>\n

He explained that \u201cthe Nigerian government agencies concerned lack qualified technical experts and resources.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, I started to doubt if the Executive Director of UNEP could truly be part of what Buhari intends.\u201d
\nDiigbo emphasized that \u201cBuhari can help to respect the wishes of the Ogoni people. We don\u2019t want him to turn a conflict prevention and resolution mechanism, into conflict-making or political tool. The EIAS for Ogoniland is for Ogoniland, and not a nation-wide petroleum assessment report.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite what many see as good intentions on his part, President Muhammadu Buhari has come under severe criticism from the leaders of Ogoniland for violating the technical demands of theUnited Nations Environmental Programme, UNEP report. President of the Ogoni Central Indigenous Authority OCIA, Goodluck Diigbo, stated that Buhari received the recommendations from \u201cnon-experts\u201d made up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[197,344,343],"class_list":["post-5524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","tag-mohammadu-buhari","tag-ogoniland","tag-unep"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Buhari.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-1r6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5525,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5524\/revisions\/5525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}