‘Co-Opt Illegal Bunkerers Into Oil Production’

Given that the federal
government was against any form of illegal bunkering and all other ventures related to them, a businessman, Mr David Dubem, has called on the federal government to give them recognition.
Dubem, who bared his mind on the contentious issue to our correspondent recently in an exclusive interview in Port Harcourt said, rather than branding them illegal, they should be “celebrated.”
He said this group of people could even help in revamping the ailing refineries given that they could distill crude in such a manner as to separate it and get petrol, diesel and kerosene among others.
He said branding them as criminals would only make them cause more damage to the pipes as they regard what they were doing as their right.
Dubem, who claimed that almost all the filling stations sell adulterated products from the bunkerers said there was no need of pretending.
“More than 80 per cent of vehicles including generators run on adulterated fuel made by the so called illegal bunkerers,” he said.