FG Plans To Clean Up Oil-Polluted Ogoni Areas

After decades of struggle with environmental degradation from oil spills, an apparent environmental victory has been won by the Ogoni people in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta region.

Federal government says the area will begin to be cleaned up.

Mr Nnimmo Bassey is a Nigerian environmentalist from the region who for years has been campaigning for action was interviewed by BBC Newsday's Alan Kasujja:

''Humans can be very resilient. In the face of all this... people persist,'' says Bassey.

''But when the land and water are so polluted, whatever you get from those environments is contaminated. People are sick and severely impacted,'' he added.





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