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ERA/FoEN pays a working visit to Nigeria Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative

On 20 June 2023, the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) team and volunteers working on the Energy Transition Fund visited the top echelon of the leadership of the Nigeria Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (NEITI) in the organization’s new office in Abuja.

The team, led by the ERA/FoEN Executive Director, Chima Williams discussed pathways of collaboration to address the crisis of transparency and accountability in the extractives sector.

Williams used the opportunity to reiterate the importance of the ERA/FoEN campaign exposing the myth of the international oil companies’ divestment in the Niger Delta and the need to hold the multinationals accountable for the harms of their operations which have affected man and the environment in host communities.

The NEITI team, led by its Executive Secretary, Orji Ogbonnaya Orji revealed that ERA/FoEN recommendations on the need for a desk specifically dedicated to the environment and gender issues has been realized as the agency had set one up with a desk officer.

The ERA/FoEN and NEITI teams agreed to work on the modalities of sustaining the engagement.

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