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The movement for the survival of the Ogoni people (Mosop) and the Liberation of Ogoni initiative have criticized the Federal Government for the recent observations made by the National Security Councilor, Nuhu RIPADU, as regards the resumption of oil production in Ogoni, noting that the declaration was insensitive and harmful to a healing process undertaken by Mosop in the last five years.
The groups also observed that the Ogoni people did not yet have to recover from the pains of the past and do not need to remember the evils made from them by previous Nigerian regimes nor must they be subjected to renewed repression of the state.
The president of Mosop, Fegalo Nsuke, who spoke on behalf of the two groups, was answering Ribadu’s comments during a session of questions and answers with the young people of Ogoni in Ebubu, Eleme Local government area of the State of the rivers, said that Ribadu’s comments did not reflect on the reality of Ogoni in Ogoni did not reflect on the reality of Ogoni. National Assembly of January 4, 2025.
A declaration signed by Alex Akori, secretary general, Mosop and made available to the news platforms on Sunday, recalled that the congress of 30 November 2024 had commissioned the Mosop to involve the government in the negotiation of Ogoni’s interests in oil resources and the Gas of Ogoni and the resolutions of the Ogoni day of January 4th have revised all the oil production forces.
“I think that the National Security Councilor, Nuhu Ribadu, is receiving the wrong advice on the real position of things in Ogoni. I will recommend before the question of the resumption of oil production in Ogoni, being very sensitive, must be managed with deeper consultations to first face the problems below, before proceeding” before proceeding “
“It is deplorable that the recent actions taken by the National Security Adviser (ONSA) Office is rapidly destroying the earnings of the previous awareness of the community made by Mosop and our authentic efforts to persuade the people Ogoni to accept the idea”.
“And the fear is now that we are quickly brought back to 1993 by the new move because the drivers are desperate and cannot listen,” Nsuke said.
In the NSA comments, NSUKE also said:
“In order not to say more, the comments of NSA were unfortunate and had elements of provocation. He should have known about the sensitive nature of the issue of oil production to Ogoni and how seriously the Ogoni people take it, I think it would have been better to expand the scope of consultations, find a way to face the way Ogoni’s needs and use the persuasion to achieve the goal.”
“The National Security Councilor, Nuhu Riadu, unfortunately spoke in such an author way, ignoring the pains and critical concerns of the Ogoni people, because he has access to take sides the powers of the state.”
“When I heard NSA’s comments, I wondered if I was talking about oil in Adamawa or if he was actually talking about oil in my country of Ogoni. I think we must be a little more realistic and not to cause people in the streets.”
“Furthermore, the question of Ogoni has a much more global dimension and I don’t think I have to endanger the reputation of the government or of the president, when we have more practical and peaceful options that have been offered by Mosop to solve all the problems”.
“We should not always distribute or show the state force and cause deeper damage that will become too difficult to solve. We consider an adequate dialogue above all, in the Ogoni case, in which we all showed the will to speak,” NSUke observed.
He also urged the National Security Councilor to be a little more human, an objective and put himself in the position of the Ogoni people who suffered so much in the repression supported by the state.
“I think the NSA should be a little more objective and human. The people of Ogoni lost assets that are not quantifiable in human and material resources, in 1999, at least 30 villages of Ogoni were destroyed and about 4,000 Ogonis had lost their lives in the struggle”
“What Mosop and Oli ask are fundamental rights and justice for the living and for the dead and it is natural to resist any move made by the government to resume the production of oil in the ground without corresponding actions to face these injustices that have turned on the crises and have prolonged it so far”
The president of the Mosop regretted that the national security councilor quickly spoke of the resumption of oil production while ignored the causes at the root of the crisis.
“Ogoni’s question concerns justice and not only the generation of revenue for the Nigerian government. Ribadu has forgotten that the Ogoni environment is still polluted by people who fight to have access to clean water, he forgot that 4 Ogonis were killed on May 21, 1994, another 9 were executed by the State for the State.
“All these people, death and live, need justice,” he concluded and the government should not escape from these realities if we want to face the problem permanently.
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