By Michael Eboh
Oil and Solid Mineral Producing Area Landlords’ Association of Nigeria, OMPALAN, yesterday, said it had developed a blue-print that would help end the lingering crisis in the Niger Delta and other minerals producing communities across the country.
Chairman, Board of Trustees and National Leader, OMPALAN, Mr. Udo Azogu, said this in a statement in Abuja, after the group’s interactive meeting and presentation of letter of appointment to His Eminence, Sir Chukumela Nnam Obi as Patron of the Association.
Azogu said the blue-print was a bottom-up proposal that focuses primarily on transparency and due process in the delivery mechanism of Federal Government mitigation programmes.
He said: “Our proposal for enduring peace called ‘Mining Security and Monitoring Agency of Nigeria,’ MISMAN, hinges on a legal framework at the grassroots level that provides for transparent community governance called ‘Community Administration Council, CAC’.”
He added that MISMAN is also designed for solid mineral producing areas of Nigeria which have suffered untold environmental challenges from the ill-effects of mineral development dating back to the geological expeditions by the colonial master in the early part of the 20th century.
According to him, statistics of lead poisoning from solid mineral exploitation in the North of Nigeria is a source of concern to OMPALAN.
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