The project Coordinator
of the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project t HYPREP DR. Malvin Dekil has
said they are committed to ensuring that the cleanup of the area is achieved.
DR. Dekil stated this
while speaking to correspondents at the National Assembly after a they had met
members of the House Committee on Environment.
Dr. Dekil said contrary
to allegations that they have expended 10 million dollars on the project, what
was actually released was 5 million dollars and there is also a balance of over
300 million naira.
He said what is holding
the commencement of the cleanup project is qualification of contractors who
will handle the jobs in phases. ''once that is done you will be rest assured that
by this November, we will commence the clean up exercise''
While addressing the
issue of time wastage on the project, Dr. Dekil said “The process of remediating a
site is a very thorough one and time consuming. We don’t want to do this the
way they know it to be, which means to rush it and get it done in a wrong way.
For you to remediate a site, there is a lot of desk work involved, the process
of remediating this one site has taken us time.
While calling for patience on the clean up exercise
he said “The task of remediating a polluted site is enormous. We appeal for
patience so that we don’t make any mistake. We will take our time to
development the remediation plan for each site.”
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