The newly-inaugurated President of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), Legborsi Saro Pyagbara, has vowed never to let Ogoni people down.
He urged them to set aside the events of the past few weeks and embrace love while forgiving each other’s mistakes.
He also dissolved all the committees of the Ogoni umbrella organisation in line with the planned revamping of the body.
Pyagbara, who unveiled his administration’s plans for the body yesterday in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, also urged members of the public to be wary of any individual or group, purporting to be representing any committee on behalf of MOSOP.
Until his election in December last year, the new president was MOSOP’s International Advocacy Officer.
Pyagbara said: “Following ongoing consultations with our grass-roots audience, MOSOP shall inform the public in due time, of the formation of new committees and their composition.”
Pyagbara could not be inaugurated along with other members of his executive on January 4 this year at the 20th Ogoni Day at Bori, the traditional headquarters of Ogoniland and seat of Khana LGA of the state.
The Chairman of the MOSOP Provisional Council (MPC), Prof. Ben Naanen, who is also of the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT), during the inauguration of other members of the executive, stated that there was a petition against Pyagbara.
The new MOSOP president was eventually inaugurated on Friday, at the movement’s secretariat along Olu Obasanjo Road in Port Harcourt.
While giving his inaugural speech, Pyagbara assured that: “I call on you all, particularly MOSOP members, who may have felt aggrieved and estranged, to come back into the MOSOP fold.
“In the coming months, we shall be embarking on wide-ranging consultations and intense grass-roots mobilisation across the length and breadth of Ogoniland, aimed at resuscitating MOSOP at all levels, including chapters and kingdoms and the affiliates of the organisation.”
First Published: January 13, 2013
Source: TheNation
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