The Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project(HYPREP) has restated its commitment to prioritise the welfare of its workers and the determination to continue to create jobs.
The Project Coordinator of HYPREP, Prof Nenibarini Zabbey, who gave the indication in a statement issued in Port Harcourt, to mark this year’s Labour Day, felicitated with workers across the country, especially those in HYPREP’s Coordination Office and community workers at its various project sites in Ogoniland.
Zabbey used the Labour Day celebration to acknowledge the immense commitment, resilience and dedication the workers have demonstrated on the Ogoni cleanup programme, which has contributed significantly to the milestones achieved across critical projects like the Centre of Excellence for Environmental Restoration(CEER); Ogoni Specialist Hospital; Buan Cottage Hospital; mangrove restoration sites; land and shoreline remediation sites; Ogoni Power Project and water projects.
He noted that HYPREP is mindful of the benefit of creating a safe and productive work environment that engenders job satisfaction and self-attainment in the public interest, stressing that the Project places premium on workers’ welfare and continuous human capacity development in its Project Coordination Office and at its project sites.
He said HYPREP has through its numerous projects across Ogoniland created over 7,000 direct and indirect jobs, and helped develop skills and capacities of youth and women, especially in environmental remediation, saying, “By this, we are tackling unemployment and its attendant effects, fundamentally improving local economies, and positively impacting the Human Development Index(HDI).
The Project Coordinator explained that this year, through the dedication of its staff and community workers, HYPREP is working assiduously to ensure the timely completion and commissioning of various ongoing projects, including the Centre of Excellence, Ogoni Specialist Hospital, Buan Cottage Hospital, the Ogoni Power Project, and additional water projects.
While thanking the workers for their dedication to service, Zabbey said HYPREP is pleased to note that commissioning the various ongoing projects would create more jobs, thereby addressing unemployment in the region.
He indicated that HYPREP will continue to create jobs at its project sites through various skill acquisition and employability enhancement training, and congratulated all the workers, urging them to continue to be patriotic and committed to playing their noble roles, especially towards the collective vision to fully actualising the successful implementation of the Ogoni cleanup programme.
