The board of Trustees, management and staff of Centre for Environment, Human
Rights and Development, CEHRD congratulate, Prof Nenibarini Zabbey, the Ogoni
born researcher, environmentalist and the Coordinator of CEHRD, on his recent
appointment as the Project Coordinator of Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation
Project, HYPREP.
We also commend the President of Nigeria, President muhammadu Buhari, for
finding our Coordinator worthy to be entrusted with the onerous task of coordinating
the HYPREP.
The appointment of Prof Zabbey is well deserved and commendable. It amounts to
placing a round peg in a round hole.
We are overwhelmed by joy as we consider the appointment as a big win for the
environmental CSOs in the region and beyond which have been at the forefront of
the struggle for environmental justice.
Zabbey, a consummate researcher, has remained a courageous and unwavering
environmental justice campaigner whose commitments in applying scientific methods
in solving societal problems over the years have earned him an international Award,,
the 2022 RUTH PATRICK AWARD conferred on him by the Association for the
Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography, ASLO, USA in 2022
We at CEHRD, ARE CONFIDENT that he is well endowed with skills and capacities
to drive the Ogoni environment remediation Project and deliver on its aims and
objectives.
He has been at the forefront of the struggle for the remediation of the niger delta
environment, and the clamour for environmental justice.
It is our prayer that GOD will give him wisdom and strength to carry out this new
herculean task and achieve desired success…
With this appointment given to our coordinator, we are more emboldened to continue
on our chosen path of environmental justice works for which we are known.
CEHRD’s over 20 years intervention in Nigeria focuses on sustainable environmental
management advocacy, community development, policy research and influencing,
human rights and good governance.
Signed
OBODOEKWE STYVN
Program Director
Centre for Environment, Human
Rights and Development(CEHRD)
Formerly, Niger Delta Project for Environment, Human Rights and Development
(NDPEHRD)
CEHRD is a non-profit, non-governmental and public interest organization
incorporated as a trustee charity in Nigeria with No. CAC/IT/19258