By Jimitota Onoyume

Port Harcourt- Hundreds of Ogoni people, Monday, marched round major roads in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, protesting the failure of Federal Government to take any concrete measure to address the challenges identified by the United Nations Environmental Programme, UNEP, report on Ogoniland three months after the government received the report.

MOSOP PROTEST: Members of Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People, MOSOP, protesting the non-implementation of the United Nations Environmental Programme, UNEP, report on Ogoniland in Port Harcourt, yesterday.

President, Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People, MOSOP, Mr. Ledum Mitee, who led the protesters to Rivers State Government House, presented a letter from the Ogoni body to Governor Chibuike Amaechi for onward transmission to President Goodluck Jonathan.

Ledum said it was disturbing to note that three months after the Federal Government received the UNEP’s report, it was yet to take any concrete step to address the life-threatening issues identified by the report.

Noting that it was the height of insensitivity on the part of government, MOSOP called on government and oil firms to tackle the problems brought about by oil exploration in the area.

Mitee said: “It has been three months since the report was submitted to the Presidency with details that demanded immediate action. Since then, we had been told of high level meetings and the formation of inter-ministerial committees. Yet Ogoni people have not heard from Federal Govern-ment on the report.”