PORT HARCOURT — Rivers South-East Senatorial Youth Platform, has dismissed as untrue, report in some national newspapers that the Supervising Minister for Education, Mr. Nyesom Wike, at the last Ogoni Day celebration in Bori, Rivers State, lashed at President Goodluck Jonathan for delaying the implementation of the United Nations Environmental Programme, UNEP, report on Ogoniland.

Chairman of the body, Mr Liberty Abueh, in a statement, said the minister, who was represented at the event by Dr Fred Kpakol, had only called for synergy among the various stakeholders on the implementation of the UNEP report.

“Dr Kpakol, who represented the minister called for unity among the Ogoni and appealed to all and sundry to work in synergy and not to pass any blame on the Presidency as the state, local government and multinational companies all have a role to play in the realisation of the clean up exercise. So far, the Presidency had taken steps in the right direction by the formation of Hydrocarbon Pollution and Restoration Project, HYREP,” he said.