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 the remediation of oil impacted Ogoni communities in Rivers.
The addition of 36 firms would raise the number to 57 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 scaling through to the next round of bid.
The remediation agency later selected 21 from the pre-qualified 183 companies to start clean-up of 21 oil impacted sites in Ogoniland.
Project Coordinator of HYPREP, Marvin Dekil, said at the opening of Phase I, Batch II, bid in Port Harcourt, that Federal Government was passionate about the exercise.
Dekil explained that 36 contractors selected at the end of the Batch II bidding process would be assigned to handle another set of 36 oil spilled sites.
