Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has declared that the APC FG deliberately plans to eliminate a greater percentage of the state’s population by her failure to act on the soot and its primary causes. .
The governor announced that the Honourable Attorney General of Rivers State has been directed to sue the FG and International Oil Companies operating in the state over the soot.
Addressing a delegation of the United Nations at the Government House Port Harcourt on Wednesday during a high-profile meeting to tackle the soot, Governor Wike called on the United Nations to prevail on the FG to act on the soot.
The governor said: “Thank God that the United Nations has come in view of the issues we have raised. .
If we must move on, we must situate the cause of the soot and the fact that the FG has decided to make sure that a greater percentage of the state dies.
The FG wants to eliminate a greater percentage of the state. The problem of soot is not caused by the Rivers State Government. It is caused by Federal Agencies.”
The governor said that the FG and her agencies are practically damaging the environment by their illegal activities.
“The Rivers State Government do not own companies that refine crude. We have made representations to the FG and her agencies on the issue of soot, to no avail.
We have called on the security agencies to find more refined ways of destroying the illegal refineries. We have informed the National Council of Environment, the military and all Federal Regulatory Agencies, but they are not interested in intervening,” Wike said.