BMI PLENARY SESSION

The Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development (CEHRD) hosts the Secretariat of the Bodo Mediation Initiative (BMI) which coordinates the ongoing Bodo clean-up in the Niger Delta. CEHRD organized a Plenary session to update the wider body of stakeholders on progress of the clean-up and discuss emerging technical and operational issues that may hinder progress of the Bodo Clean-up, with a view to finding solutions to these. The Plenary session recorded a high participation of stakeholders, even beyond what was planned and this buttressed the high level of attention the project is drawing because of the milestone successes it has recorded under very difficult and complex landscape. The Plenary session is important as it also brings together top level representatives of not only the primary stakeholders – Bodo Community and SPDC - but also the various Government Regulatory Agencies and the Dutch Embassy. It therefore provides a leverage in dealing with issues that may require top level inputs and decisions. One Plenary Session was held within the second quarter of this second year of the project.