Port Harcourt — After years of resilient, and incontrovertibly torturous resistance against the despoliation of their ecosystem by oil companies, Ogoni appears to be on the path to attaining environmental justice, as the federal government moves to implement the United Nations Environment Programme report on Ogoniland.
For decades, indigenous people of Ogoni, who have lived under the yoke of environmental degradation that has adversely affected their health, drinking water, farming, hunting and fishing, which are vital aspects of their lives and identity, are finally heaving a sigh of relief by the prospect of having their community cleaned up by government and oil companies, which the United Nations Environmental Programmes (UNEP) said will take up to 30 years to restore.
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