 In the area if young speaking there about the tweeter ban and of course the suspension of the ban and moving on and the bulletin rivers residents Calling for the adoption of modular refinery clean energy residents of what I could reverse state capital have described the state government's fight against illegal oil Bunkering and suit in the state as a welcome development in a broadcast the governor had declared 19 illegal oil Bunkering kink pins wanted in tasks council chairman and traditional rulers to guard their domains against the activity We have a report The suit emission in potter cuts and heat environs Continues to be a major concern for residents who attribute the cost to illegal oil Bunkering and gas flaring by multinational companies in the niger delta Do not think the reverse state government is doing enough to tackle the issue of suits If enough was being done the governor would have released the report of the committee He set up on suit which we've not seen the report today But if we see that report, which is a process of investigation we'll get to know the sources of this suit If the state government said the local government should calm down on bunkering activities It is going to be a holistic matter We are responsible men of the society who've engaged to engage this bunkering. It can be a dialogue thing But if you say you can get a huge Boys that are not properly fed to go and start fighting bunkers This bunkers will take care of these boys and then this menace will continue It will be recalled that in the past few months Petron has been fighting this battle We have been going from places to places Smoking out the operators of attestinal refinery otherwise do not go fire and reverse state We are happy that The reverse state government has come all out To the directors of the governor the local government chairman to fight this fight They suggest that the best way to curb illegal oil bunkering is by creating jobs for the team in youth We here at youth and environmental advocacy center. We are working at modalities Of creating and establishing solar farms in communities starting this 2022 So that you two are involved in these processes Can get other alternative opportunities Within and around those solar power systems To be able to end their living diplomatic solution can also be on stream if you arrest or Clean down of the attestinal refinery operators you bring them to book and give them a Alternative of setting up a modular refinery. I'm sure that between now and the next few months This area would have been turned around to become an employment hub for the nation Is it wrong for a state government to do the refinery? Every Nigerian state is big. They can be the refineries For them produce If it is the modular refineries, you do it and do it well. Let the boys come engage them The police has a big bone in the throats of illegal oil bunkers in recent times a move commended by the people And we now be joined by an environmentalist of Engineer adibola Shaby who was also a one-time managing director of the legal state environmental Protection agency. Good to have you join us engineer Yeah, good afternoon Yes, good afternoon from the u.s. It's it's late in the night here in Nigeria I'm sorry about that All right, I've listened to your conversation on different types of pollution and that that's starting from noise to fumes But this time around some parts of the nider delta is plagued with Suit but I could and river state and its environment Environments with extension to neighboring by Elsa state. I've been living with suit pollution for about Five years now. That's in rivers. Now the governor of river state Blamed this on illegal bunkering activities Do you agree with him or are there other factors responsible for suit? Yeah, I had what um one of the speakers said earlier on This is due to um unemployment over there I mean, we have all these young guys young boys around Doing nothing They definitely they we Drove into illegal things Right and um, that's why they have resulted into illegal bunkering And annoyingly to them That this oil the oil we're talking about is highly flammable So the moment there's any thing over there Any little scratch or any little light over there that explosion So when there's an explosion, there's going to be so there's going to be a lot of air pollution Some of these gases in the environment Unknowingly to them that they are also endangering their lives Look at them doing all this illegal bunkering not knowing that the films from the from the from the oil Definitely is it is the pms. They're using a product right now the films definitely we definitely penetrate into their respiratory tracts Most of these boys most of these young guys when you take them for um medical checkup go and check their lungs They have most of them going to have lung cancer or some respiratory tract diseases and so on and so forth Look at the issue of the carbon monoxide coming out from that from that Films we look I mean the fire we're looking at the carbon monoxide over here now They're definitely going to a hell this thing. It's definitely the gas and it's going to react Or depletes with the oxygen in their bloodstream causing carbon oxyoma globally So it means you're agreeing with the governor of river state That this is caused suit is caused by illegal oil bunkering I was asking if there are other factors that could be responsible for suit Yeah, there are other other factors. I just told you look at it Is you now that they are um doing illegal bunkering Unknowingly to them that in case of any scraps over there. There's going to be fire Right That is one of the causes of that suit definitely out of suits. You can get it from vapor emission. You can get for your generators You can get from burning of coal and firewood You understand that is why the government is working on this aspect. I mean the federal government of nigeria Is working on that aspect that we should all resort into using LPG gas Okay, let me take you let me take you down to since you've mentioned the federal government Do you know the nigerian government had long launched an initiative to reduce dangerous air pollution And that's that initiative is called supporting national action planning SNAP as an acronym now this aims at reducing short-lived Climate pollutants like the suit and others just as you've said but is there really a willpower to have Clean air in nigeria As other parts just as you mentioned, it's not just from the illegal oil bunkering But other fumes from the cars from generation. Is there really a willpower From the side of the government to ensure that nigeria has clean air Yes, i'm going to use legal state as an escape Let me use legal state now Legal state is doing a lot on this issue of air pollution Um in Lagos today now We have what we call the vehicular emission Your vehicles must undergo vehicular emission tests every year So that is another source of reducing emission to the environment number one number two legal state has introduced um This issue of the LPG gas that you see in Lagos today I will i'm saying i'm using Lagos as it does the go out in Lagos today Most of the houses that were using stove that were using firewood in in the past About 70 to 80 percent Are now they are now using gas to cook so that has reduced The um the air emission So then I don't know what we're doing in nigeria. What are I mean? Do we actually have all these datas? How many houses have resulted in using gases? How many are still using um firewoods and stove? Do we have all these datas? That is the question I'm asking we don't have all these things if we have all these Data's i'm talking about now. We can improve on this data to ensure Before the end of 2025 we could have gone out with the issue of air pollution So you think about definitely so you speak about the yeah, please go on It is it is um Look at um, I said legal state. I'm going to use I suppose building doing a good work and doing a lot of advocacy in the issue of reducing of this air pollution They have strong many air Air monitoring stations around Lagos state to capture some datas But I don't know how it has been translated now But I know they're working seriously on this Okay, you talk with the wall bank with the wall bank and legal state government They are procured some air monitoring stations for Engineer you engineer you spoke about the LPG and of course it's not coming um With a low price. I think I got one recently. I think the 12 kg About 7 000 plus. Thank god it's even down a bit at a lower price So how can how can the country then have the data of people who Can afford the LPG when the price is already very high? So they go back To things that would cost suit Yes, definitely. You are 100% right. That is where the federal government needs to come in now to subsidize that issue of the LPG guys, right? um, Mr. President President mama, I could remember last year. It was at the climate change summit in Paris, right? And he committed that Nigeria will reduce the issue of the greenhouse gases to the environment You understand what I'm saying now, but are we doing enough? That's the question mark The only state, um, I think is doing his best And I know with what you just said now about of governor wiki governor wiki to governor wiki. Um, Excuse me is doing his best to but it's not only this illegal concrete There are many other things look at the oil companies over there What are they doing to update the environmental degradation over there? Are you with me, uh, loretta? All right. Thank you. Are you with me? Yes, I am with you. You want a round of What are the the the oil companies doing to remedy it? They are not doing it now Right, they are water on the ground water the surface water over there are highly polluted In the in river states So the governor should be more proactive to let them know to do more to that In Lagos we're doing our best Thank you very much Blue hold on a second. I will strongly tell you look at the way Lagos is doing now Doing or trying to do away with the issue of the plastics too. You know, there's another thing We are not thinking about in Nigeria today is the issue of the plastic pollution Are you getting me now that lassepa is two steps ahead now Thank you very much engineer at the walla shavi And do have yourself a wonderful day Out there and we'll reach out to you again as time goes on Enjoy your vacation Enjoy your vacation to see you again 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