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From Okwe Obi, Abuja
Despite billions spent and diplomatic ties, Executive Director, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), NnimmoBassey, has claimed that Nigeria and other African countries are not benefitting from the Conference of Parties (COPs) on climate change snag.
Bassey, who spoke yesterday at the West Africa, Climate Justice Roundtable held in Abuja, said the politics at COP was affecting Africans, as politicians continue to have their way and perpetrate pollution operations.
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His words: “If there is climate justice in Nigeria, there will be no gas flaring, oil spills would stop, and there would be an audit of the entire oil belt. If there were climate justice in Nigeria, how could oil be burning for five years, and the government is doing nothing about it? There’s no climate justice in Nigeria. So, we’re demanding climate justice in Nigeria, just like we’re demanding it for the whole West African region and the entire African continent.
“It is not enough for Nigeria to go to the conference of parties and just participate and come back with nothing. I mean, at the last COP, we had the closing statement of the Nigerian leader, head of delegation, which was very encouraging, really calling the system out for what it is.”
He said the demands of Africa should be centred on the recognition and payment of climate debt because we had been raped for hundreds of years. “It is time for someone to pay for it,” he declared.
