CSOs, Others Oppose Oil Production Resumption In Ogoniland

Twenty civil society organisations and rights groups have declared their opposition to the planned resumption of oil production in Ogoniland, Rivers State, under the present conditions.
The groups, which made the declaration while addressing journalists in Port Harcourt, also warned against the opening of new oil wells in the Niger Delta region.
On behalf of the groups, the executive director of Miiderkor Environmental Development Initiative (MEDI), Celestine Akpobari, said the process of the resumption of oil exploration and production in Ogoniland was moving faster than the truth, faster than the cleanup exercise.
Akpobari stated that the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and the eight o...