With no accounts or tenders published, disquiet continues to grow over the companies HYPREP has contracted for remediation work, Concerns over the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) are growing among Ogoni activists and politicians and civil society organisations against pollution, backing the already reported worries of the UN Environment Programme consultants.
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Dennis Naku, Port Harcourt
THE Rivers State Government said on Sunday that the appointment of a former commissioner for Chieftaincy and Community Affairs, Dr. John Bazia, did not add value to Governor Nyesom Wike’s cabinet.
The state Commissioner for Information and Communications, Paulinus Nsirim, stated this in a statement replying comments credited to Bazia against Wike published in Sunday Punch.
Bazia had in the interview accused the governor of monopolising contracts and making his commissioners’ redundant as well as shouting them down during state executive council meetings.
But Nsirm said Bazia ought to have been grateful to Wike, having been without a job for eight eights (2007 to 2015) after he failed to return to the State House of Assembly due to his alleged frosty relationship with the then Speaker, Rotimi Amaechi, even as he said Bazia’s appointment did not improve the fortunes of the PDP in the state.