Wike Declares War Against Illegal Oil Refinery Operators

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, has vowed not to spare anyone involved in the illegal bunkering and artisanal refinery activities that have caused the soot pandemic in the State.

Governor Wike maintained that his administration will not succumb to any form of blackmail or sentiment that will be stirred by those perpetrators in an attempt to frustrate efforts at curbing such hazardous business.

The Governor made the vow when he took a tour, making a long walk through the track roads into the forest of Ogbodo community in Ikwerre Local Government Area, and the forest of Ibaa community in Emohua Local Government Area, with the Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Eboka Friday and other security chiefs, to uncover some crude oil illegal refining sites.

"They can't be doing this and be killing my people. No reasonable government will allow that. And I can tell you with all due respect, we will take this matter very seriously."

"Look at how, everyday, in your house, you see the soot. I mean, how can you allow that? So, this one that we can solve, we will solve it."

"We have assured the people of Rivers State, we will fight this matter to the last until I leave office."

Governor Wike noted that confronting this seemingly cartel kind of business will not be easy. But, he has however, vowed to consider it as a war like situation and fight it from the standpoint of the law.

According to the Governor, no matter how highly placed the perpetrators may be, they will not be spared, but confronted, apprehended and be made to face the full force of the law.  

Governor Wike has therefore directed the State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Professor Zacchaeus Adangor, SAN, to takeover the case files of illegal crude oil refinery operators arrested by the police.


"Attorney General, all these matters with the police, you have to retrieve the files so that you can prosecute the matters on our own"


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