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Sacked director of Ogoniland project spells out corruption concerns in rebuke to environment ministry, Shell is withholding payments towards the Ogoniland clean-up until it sees a full accounting for the disputed contracts issued to date, Africa Confidential has learned from sources in the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP). Shell has declined to confirm the reports.
The removal of the head of HYPREP is the latest effort to clear resistance to wholesale plunder of the $1 billion Delta anti-pollution programme, The head of the government agency charged with cleaning up decades of oil pollution by Shell in Ogoniland, Ferdinand Giadom, was summarily sacked without cause by President Muhammadu Buhari's Environment Minister, Mohammed Abdullahi, on 2 May.
The removal of the head of HYPREP is the latest effort to clear resistance to wholesale plunder of the $1 billion Delta anti-pollution programme, The head of the government agency charged with cleaning up decades of oil pollution by Shell in Ogoniland, Ferdinand Giadom, was summarily sacked without cause by President Muhammadu Buhari's Environment Minister, Mohammed Abdullahi, on 2 May.