CORRUPTION: Ogoni Group Claims HYPREP Management Share N300million Ogoni Clean-up Funds

CORRUPTION: Ogoni Group Claims HYPREP Management Share N300million Ogoni Clean-up Funds

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A rights group, Ogoni Community Development Network, OCDN has accused the management of the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project, HYPREP of corruption and embezzlement of funds meant for Ogoni clean up project.

In a statement sent to TheConscienceng.com on Friday, signed by OCDN President, Johnson Kuele, the Group claimed, ‘The management of the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project, HYPREP, on Wednesday (April 22, 2020) at a meeting in Port Harcourt disbursed the sum of Three Hundred Million Naira to members of the Governing Council, Board of Trustees and members of its Central Representative Advisory Council (CRAG).’

The group added that the, ‘Purpose of the money is not known but insider sources say it was classified as palliative measures to cushion the effects of the COVID-19 lockdown.’

Following the development, it expressed serious concern that the move was another evidence of the fraud in HYPREP which was persistently ignored by a government claiming to be fighting corruption.

OCDN called on Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari to ‘investigate the looting of HYPREP by those who should be managing it and take appropriate action.’