Nwanosike Impounds Vehicles Loaded With Illegally Refined Products

The Chairman of Ikwerre Local Government Council, Engr. Samuel Nwanosike has apprehended some individuals with their vehicles loaded with illegally refined petroleum products.
The chairman made the assurance during the signing of into law of a bill on the regulation and control of illegal packing of trucks and vehicles along the main roads in Ikwerre Local Government Area and the 2022 appropriation bill at the Executive Chambers in Ikwerre Council Secretariat, Isiokpo.
He also inaugurated a committee to checkmate illegal packing of vehicles, oil bunkering activities and street trading in the LGA, as directed by the Rivers State Government.
Nwanosike said, “I want to assure the people of Ikwerre Local Government that with the strength of these laws, the directive of the state government, led by Governor Nyesom Wike, will be carried out to the latter to the good of our people to make sure we live and do business in a healthy environment”.
A statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary to the Chairman of Ikwerre Local Government Area, Prince Chris Omodu, stated that the chairman also handed over the vehicles laden with illegally refined petroleum products that were intercepted at Apani and Elele over to the police.
He noted that few of the people cannot claim they were hungry due to unemployment and destroy the ecosystem or environment without minding that tomorrow exists.
“When you eat today, and you are not alive to eat tomorrow, of what sense is that way of life”?, Nwanosike queried.
He frowned at the situation where most communities in the LGA allow the activities of illegal oil refining, while mentioning Isiokpo, Elele, Omerelu, Omagwa, Aluu and Igwuruta, among others, as culprits.
He said that the long arm of the law would soon catch up with criminal elements involved in the act.