Tonye Graham-Douglas: Creative leader who strives for worthy causes
PERHAPS, if the Federal Government he served four times as minister had listened to him and taken his proposals as road-map for the development of the Niger-Delta region, and indeed, other parts of the country, maybe much of the pain the nation experienced, and is still experiencing could have been avoided. That was not to be; the entire nation, especially its leaders could not see gold elsewhere, except in crude oil. Today, a costly clean-up of Ogoniland is in the works, and is estimated to cost a whopping US$1 billion.
