Compel IOCs to Cleanup Niger Delta Despite Divestment, Intl Group Tells FG

• As HYPREP records 90% success on mangrove restoration in Ogoni

Blessing Ibunge in Port Harcourt

An international organisation under the aegis of International Working Group on Petroleum Pollution and Just Transition in the Niger Delta has called on the federal government to prevail on the international oil companies that operated in the region to restore the environment and livelihoods of the people, despite their divestments.

This was as the Hydrocarbon Pollution and Remediation Project (HYPREP), said it has recorded 90% survival of mangroves in the ongoing cleanup and remediation of shorelines in Ogoni land.

The group made the call yesterday, during a visit to Ogoniland to understudy the ongoing remediation carried out by the HYPREP, yesterday.