Lawyer Tasks Govt On Illegal Oil Bunkering

A Port Harcourt-based lawyer and human rights crusader, Chinoye Okoha, has called for stiffer penalties against illegal oil bunkering.
Okoha who stated this while speaking with newsman in Port Harcourt on Monday said soot a resultant of illegal oil bunkering was causing degradation of the ecosystem.
He said the illegal activities of the bunkers would continue unless concerted action was taken by both government and its citizens.
The Port Harcourt lawyer noted that the environmental pollution had unleashed a plethora of health hazards on the society.
He urged state governments in the Niger Delta region to take urgent steps to end the pollution of their environment.
Okoha expressed regrets that law enforcement agents  had compromised kpo fire business which had caused a lot of ecological degradation.
He also expressed surprise that despite the emissions caused by illegal bunkering, law enforcement agents still appeared clueless on how to tackle the problem.
Okoha noted that oil bunkering had become a free for all affair and warned that the get-rich quick syndrome was breeding laziness among the youths.
He said there must be a deliberate effort by all to leave the society better than we found it.