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July 2, 2019
Ogoni-Land: FG Opens Fresh Contract Bid For Clean-Up
The Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project,HYPREP opened a fresh bid to select 36 additional contractors for theremediation of oil impacted Ogoni communities in Rivers.
The addition of 36 firms would raise the number to57 contractors hired so far for the clean-up.
HYPREP, under the Federal Ministry of Environment,opened the initial bid in September 2018, with 183 out of 400 companies scalingthrough to the next round of bid.
The remediation agency later selected 21 from thepre-qualified 183 companies to start clean-up of 21 oil impacted sites inOgoniland.
Project Coordinator of HYPREP, Marvin Dekil, said atthe opening of Phase I, Batch II, bid in Port Harcourt, that Federal Governmentwas passionate about the exercise.
Dekil explained that 36 contractors selected at theend of the Batch II bidding process would be assigned to handle another set of36 oil spilled sites.