Ogoni still poor despite huge resources, says ex-lawmaker
Ogoni still poor despite huge resources, says ex-lawmaker The Punch Published 3 May 2021 AN elder statesman and Second Republic senator, Benneth Birabi, has said there was about two billion barrels of oil sitting idle in Ogoni land, Rivers State. Birabi, who is the Chairman, ‘Gbo Kabari Ogoni’, which means Ogoni Elders’ Forum, said the Ogoni people were running out of time as far as oil production stopped there in 1993 as a result of the exit of oil giant Shell from the area. Birabi stated this at an event; ‘Ogoni Petroleum Summit’, put together by the Pan Ogoni maga...
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