Port Harcourt, the garden city once famed as one of the beautiful places to visit in Nigeria for good time is now a harbinger of death owing to the activities of artisanal refiners of crude oil to produce Kpo Fire fuel, leaving in its wake carcinogenic soot in the air.
Complicit in the merchandising of death in the city of Port Harcourt and its environs are the international oil companies, IOCs, which continue to flare gas and do very little to check crude oil theft on their lines.
Complicit also are the security agencies whose personnel aid and abet oil theft, artisanal refining and transportation of Kpo fire fuel.
Government agencies, such as the Federal Ministry of Environment, Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission, NUPRC; and the Nigerian Oil Spill Detection and Regulatory Agency, NOSDRA; also have a measured dose of complicity in the merchandising of death in the area owing to the conspiracy of silence in the face of the devastation wrought by the activities of artisanal refiners of Kpo fire fuel.
Just to be clear, Kpo fire is the name creek dwellers have given to illegally refined diesel, petrol and kerosene. Basically, there is kpo fire diesel, kpo fire petrol and kpo fire kerosene.
Investigations revealed that the carcinogenic hydrocarbon soot ravaging Port Harcourt and environs became noticeable in 2016.
Reference: https://sweetcrudereports.com/kpofire-fuel-soot-filled-air-complicity-of-iocs/
