It described the move as unnecessary and a distraction, at a time international oil companies are taking steps to divest from onshore oil fields.
HYPREP was established under the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources in 2012, following the recommendation of the United Nations Environment Programme report on the assessment of the Ogoni environment in 2011. It said: “This is far from being accurate. We have hydrocarbon pollution in other areas of Nigeria outside the Niger Delta, including around the Kaduna refinery, and at Atlas Cove, Badagry and other places in Lagos. It is also obvious that with oil extraction activities in Lagos waters and Dangote’s refinery being built at Lekki, hydrocarbon pollution will soon become the norm in Lagos. That is not Niger Delta.
“That will not be in the Niger Delta. Besides the fact that moving HYPREP to the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs unnecessarily limits its scope, it also blindsides the essential backstopping that agencies, such as National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency , seamlessly provide to the agency.
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