During her childhood days in Rivers State, Martha Agbani had the pleasure of living in a coastal community in the Ogoni area, where the vegetation seemed pristine.
She began researching, visited institutions for capacity building and also engaged institutions with expertise in reforestation-related fields. So far, one million trees have been replanted in the community. Ms Agbani and her team sell mangrove nurseries to companies including Shell who themselves are involved in reviving lost environments.Her first experience in 2018 was a false start as many of the plants did not survive. She said the plants were not given adequate space during cultivation and that adversely affected the growth.
In the past, the Nigerian government has attempted several strategies for the clean-up such as the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Process , introduced in 2016 to address issues of degradation and pollution in Ogoniland and other communities facing the crises. CEHRD has taken its advocacy to Bundu, another community in Rivers where it preaches the gospel of revegetation to community members.
The schools are Community Secondary School, Mogho and Bodo Girls Secondary School on how to nurture the nursery of the mangroves.The schools don’t house the mangroves. The nurseries are grown by the water bank in Bundu, PREMIUM TIMES observed. A member of Ms Agbani’s team, Jesse Nubani, a traditional birth attendant from Lueku Group of Communities, got inspiration to raise mangroves after benefiting from the training.She has raised a good number of mangrove nurseries as well as medicinal plants. She sells them between the range N500 and N1500.
Fishermen in Bodo told PREMIUM TIMES they were aware of the exercise even though they are yet to see the impact because it would take years for the water bodies to come back. Ken Henshaw, a climate change advocate and executive director of We the People, said Niger Deltans have taken their future in their hands and chosen to secure it, knowing the government doesn’t care about them.
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