MOVEMENT
for the Survival of Ogoni People, MOSOP, has called for the creation of an
Ogoni state as a condition for oil exploration to resume in Ogoni land.
In a
statement, yesterday, Chairman, MOSOP Coordinators Forum, Frank Jonah, said
Ogoni will not tolerate a situation where states that contribute nothing to the
economy fed fat on the oil resource in the area, while Ogoni communities thrive
in suffer poverty.
Describing
the poverty situation in Ogoni as sad and painful, Jonah said they had
continued to suffer from oil pollution and environmental degradation.
He said:
“The health situation in Ogoni is terrible with increasing death rate. While
the resources of the Ogoni people are taken and shared by the major ethnic
groups, Ogoni people are left to die in Shell Petroleum Development Company
polluted land.
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