The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has called out the gross mismanagement of the hundred Ogoni oil wells by multinational companies which has caused the agricultural resources of the indigenous people to be largely destroyed by their activities, resulting in great poverty in the area.
The group also describes the community as the most natural region in Nigeria with an oil production capacity of over one million barrels per day, although official sources say 350,000 barrels and the situation is playing into the hands of political leaders.
The President, Fegalo Nsuke, in a statement made available to The Guardian in Abuja, emphasized that this figure is an example of fraud and corruption that has rocked the oil industry where refineries will not work, while the company will damage and destroy the environment and people’s livelihood.
Nsuke explained that the challenge has been the strategy of political campaigns for decades where politicians will promise better schools, roads, security, electricity, employment and others “the disgraceful conditions have been put in place by political leaders to get results election.”
“Every civil society group that can be compromised is bribed to give endorsements as a tool to cover up the nefarious activities of financing armed gangs that are deployed during elections. With the hope of a better life, unemployed youths are exploited and armed for political violence .
“The state of neglect in Ogoni is very sad; this is not far from the national experience. Youth unemployment in Nigeria is projected to reach 73 million by 2022; a 150 percent increase from the 2014 average of 14.2 percent indicating that 33 percent of our population will be unemployed by the end of 2022.
According to the President of MOSOP, there is only a lack of basic infrastructure to support sufficient economic growth and the possibility to stimulate the process simply does not exist because the environment does not have the basic facilities to sustain the desired economic growth.