Chaired by the Anglican former Archbishop of York John Sentamu and Baroness Valerie Amos a former British Labour government Secretary for International Development the commission wants international oil companies (IOC) and the state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to pay an estimated US$12 billion to make good the historic pollution in a 200-page report...
We hear Bayelsa governor Douye Diri wanted to replicate HYPREP in his state and this was recommended in a draft report by the Bayelsa State Oil and Environmental Commission chaired by retired Archbishop of York John Sentamu and Baroness Valerie Amos...
John Sentamu then the Archbishop of York in the United Kingdom was put in charge of the Commission with former Ghanaian President John Kufuor and former UK International Development Secretary Baroness Valerie Amos also on the panel...
Over two years ago Bayelsa state launched the commission headed by former Archbishop of York John Sentamu to investigate the spills and to hold oil companies to account...
Former governor of Bayelsa State Seriake Dickson has been lobbying for this having established the Bayelsa Commission and persuaded the Archbishop of York John Sentamu (who has just retired) to chair it...
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'Environmental genocide' was the label the Archbishop of York John Sentamu hung on the decades of multinational oil company operations in Nigeria's Niger Delta at the 1 November launch of the interim report by the Bayelsa State Oil and Environmental Commission which he chairs...
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The Dickson panel includes John Sentamu Archbishop of York John Kufuor former President of Ghana Valerie Amos former Under-Secretary General of Humanitarian Assistance at the United Nations and academics...
This time the accuser is the Anglican Archbishop of York John Sentamu a Ugandan-born prelate who was detained during the rule of President Idi Amin Dada...
