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RSG Warns Against Politicising Black Soot …As Anti-Black Soot Campaigners March In Port Harcourt
The Rivers State Government has said that since no one is immuned from the current environmental challenges facing the state, the issue should not be politicised.
The State Deputy Governor, Dr Ipalibo Harry Banigo, who said this while addressing hundreds of anti-black soot campaigners who marched to Government House, Port Harcourt, said that the state government was deeply concerned over the incident of the black soot.
She also assured the ‘stop the soot’ campaigners that their demands would be channelled to the state governor.
Earlier, the ‘stop the soot’ campaigners had presented a 14-point demand to the state government.
The demands include, prioritising the ministry of environment with a supplementary budget, conducting an environmental audit of host and oil producing communities, while a reservoir of environmental data on Rivers State be set up in the state.
The campaigners also urged the state government to force local government councils to implement sanitation laws in their domain, make the councils to use their security votes to provide local government monitors and whistle blowers while a street-by- street public health campaign be carried out.
They also urged for the provision of daily air quality readings for indigenes of Rivers State while the state government should support effort to seek legal redress to compel the federal government to fund the Ogoni clean up, amongst others.
The ‘stop the soot’ campaigners started their march from the Isaac Boro Park, through the ever-busy Azikiwe road thereby grinding traffic on the road to Government House and from Government House to the State House of Assembly and Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) at Moscow Road.
The placards carried by the campaigners read: stop the soot now, stop the soot, my life matters, amongst others.
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