 Gov. Yesom Weke has directed the chairmen of councils, particularly in Port Harcourt, to go after all the illegal crude oil refining sites and shut them down with immediate effect. This is to check the environmental menace occasion by black suit in parts of river state. Gov. Weke in his 2022 New Year message at the Gov. House Port Harcourt said the directive stems from failure of the federal government and its security agencies to rein in those behind illegal oil bunkering and artisanal crude oil refiners in the state. The Gov. said the state government has equally appealed without success to persons engaging in this illegal business to consider its negative effects on the economy, environment, public safety and public health and disengage from it. He has also directed all cancer chairmen and community leaders to locate, identify and report to his office all those behind illegal bunkering and crude oil refining sites in their localities for prosecution. As a state government, we have drawn the attention of the federal government to this problem and requested for its intervention to stop the activities of illegal bunkering and artisanal crude oil refiners which have been identified as the main sources of the suit pandemic. Unfortunately, the federal government has remained inexplicably silent over requests and even complicit to a large extent with security agencies actively encouraging and protecting the artisanal refiners to continue with their harmful activities on a daily basis. Concerned about the operations and social harmful activities of nightclubs within residential areas of the state, the governor has placed an immediate ban on all nightclub activities including night time trading and street prostitution along Abacha Road and surrounding streets in Porta Cote. The state government has placed an immediate ban on all nightclub activities including night time trading and street prostitution along Abacha Road and surrounding streets particularly the Casablanca area to stop the harmful effect of these depraved activities on the moral development of our children and society at large. Governor Wiki stated that government will take over most vacant plots or uncompleted buildings in the old and new government reservation areas, G.R.A. By taking over all sorts of abandoned plots and uncompleted buildings were the first case of a couple of several undeveloped plots of Lany O. G. R.A. Porta Cote for breaching the governor's attached data, who will also allocate interest to the members of the republic for immediate development. He also announced the immediate ban on activities of cat pushers who have become notorious for indiscriminate scavenging of manhole covers and directed law enforcement agencies to arrest and prosecute anyone who attempts to violate this ban. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.