Oil Resumption: Rumbles in the pipelines as doubt pervades Ogoni peace dialogue

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• KAGOTE, MOSOP at daggers drawn; FG wields legal stick against activist

By Daniel Abia, Port-Harcourt

There is an atmosphere of frustration and distrust over the already established peace process between the Ogoni people and the federal government. The process is aimed at ensuring a diplomatic resumption of oil exploration in Ogoni land after about 32 years.

A globally recognized environmental activist, Ken Saro Wiwa and other prominent Ogoni activists and chiefs paid the supreme price in that struggle to save the Ogoni environment from bastardization.