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Port Harcourt, Nigeria – The Motion for the Survival of the Ogoni Individuals (MOSOP) and the Ogoni Liberation Initiative (OLI) have strongly criticized the Nationwide Safety Adviser (NSA), Nuhu Ribadu, over his latest remarks relating to the resumption of oil manufacturing in Ogoni. The teams described Ribadu’s feedback as provocative, insensitive, and able to derailing the delicate peace and therapeutic course of ongoing within the area.
Talking throughout a city corridor assembly with Ogoni youths in Ebubu, Eleme Native Authorities Space of Rivers State, Ribadu reportedly prompt that oil manufacturing would quickly resume in Ogoni. The feedback had been swiftly condemned by MOSOP President, Fegalo Nsuke, who stated they don’t replicate the emotions and resolutions of the Ogoni individuals, notably these expressed in the course of the Ogoni Congress on November 30, 2024, and the Ogoni Nationwide Meeting on January 4, 2025.
In a press release signed by MOSOP Secretary-Common, Alex Akori, and launched to the media on June 1, 2025, the group reminded the general public that the November 2024 Congress had approved MOSOP to have interaction the federal authorities on negotiations surrounding Ogoni’s oil and gasoline assets. Nonetheless, the resolutions of January 2025 unequivocally rejected any type of forceful or unilateral resumption of oil manufacturing in Ogoniland.
“The NSA’s feedback had been deeply unlucky and laced with insensitivity,” stated Nsuke. “They undermine 5 years of neighborhood dialogue, sensitization, and peacebuilding efforts by MOSOP geared toward resolving the Ogoni oil disaster.”
Nsuke warned that the federal authorities’s latest actions had been paying homage to the 1993 disaster that engulfed Ogoniland, which led to army repression, mass killings, and destruction of communities.
“We’re quick being pushed again to the darkish days of 1993 as a result of the drivers of this new push for oil resumption are determined and refusing to hear,” Nsuke added.
He harassed that the difficulty of oil manufacturing in Ogoni isn’t just about financial pursuits however is deeply rooted in a long time of injustice, environmental degradation, and human rights violations.
“The Ogoni individuals have misplaced over 4,000 lives on this wrestle, together with the brutal execution of the Ogoni 9 in 1995. Greater than 30 villages had been destroyed. Our land stays polluted, and plenty of nonetheless lack entry to scrub water,” Nsuke said.
He urged the NSA to show empathy, respect the individuals’s place, and pursue dialogue reasonably than authoritarian declarations.
“This isn’t in regards to the oil in Adamawa. It’s about Ogoni land — and the Ogoni individuals should not be provoked into one other spherical of disaster,” Nsuke emphasised.
MOSOP and the Ogoni Liberation Initiative maintained that they don’t seem to be against engagement or improvement however insist that justice, environmental cleanup, and compensation should precede any plans to renew oil operations in Ogoni.
“We’ve got introduced peaceable and real looking proposals to the federal authorities, and we anticipate these to be thought of. Deploying the complete weight of the state with out addressing the underlying grievances will solely worsen the disaster,” Nsuke warned.
The teams concluded by calling on the federal authorities to decide to real dialogue and justice for the Ogoni individuals, warning that any try to forcefully restart oil manufacturing with out addressing historic injustices could be strongly resisted.
Signed:
Alex Akori
Secretary-Common, MOSOP
June 1, 2025
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