Nigeria and groundbreaking toxic mercury treaty

“We must not wait 20 years to manage identified contaminated sites. The clean-up of contaminated sites in Minamata began 20 years after the problem was discovered. That was too late. If we do not act quickly, the legacy of the current worldwide gold rush (shifting to Africa) will be thousands of highly contaminated sites and devastated communities around the country.
“Although we see the Mercury Treaty is weak in some aspects because many articles are completely voluntary, without a compliance obligation, but we are satisfied with the Interim arrangement provisions (that is, activities from now to Treaty coming to force). Nigerian Government should be vigilant and transparent towards this commitment as nothing should prevent parties from taking additional measures and international funding of its implementation is not yet very clear.
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