Four years after the National Assembly Joint Committee on Host Communities has summoned the former Minister of Environment, Mohammed Hassan Abdullahi, in July 2022 over the $1bn Ogoni clean up project, the Ogoni Liberation Initiative has asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to stop officials of the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project, (HYPREP), from accessing or spending more than 62.5 billion Naira approved as a cost variation for projects the agency says have already been completed. In an issued statement, the group said it has also sued HYPREP and others alleging…
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