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Uduaghan vows to sponsor bills to legalise local refineries

APC senatorial candidate in Delta South Senatorial District has vowed to legitimize illegal refineries in the Niger Delta if elected into the 9th Assembly

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Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan has vowed to sponsor a bill to legitimize illegal refineries
Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan has vowed to sponsor a bill to legitimize illegal refineries

Senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Delta South Senatorial District, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, has promised to work towards the enactment of a law legalising local refineries, if elected.

The former governor of Delta State wrote this on his Facebook page. “About 6,000 illegal refineries operational in the country, were reportedly destroyed by the Joint Military Task Force, JTF, in 2015.

“Some of these refineries were actually glorified rickety science projects. There is likelihood that there will be a good number of well set up refineries among them.

“The illegal refinery industry has been around for years and has grown. Can a country that is struggling to operate its four legal refineries afford to destroy illegal refineries?

“The poorly set up makeshift contraptions are dangerous and should be done away with, but the youths should be engaged in proper refineries.

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“This is the origin of the call for the upgrade of the so-called illegal refineries, and if possible, they should be licensed.

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“The illegal refineries that are being destroyed offer a lot of employment to the youths.

“Is the government not simply shortchanging the country with the sustained posturing and grandstanding of describing the local refineries in the Niger Delta as illegal and criminalizing their operations?’’ the former governor disclosed.

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