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Despite the fuel scarcity situation in the country, the Nigerian government destroyed over 400 illegal refineries in the last three months, a Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, official has revealed.
NSCDC Commandant, Desmond Agu, said that the illegal refineries operated by oil thieves were destroyed between January and March.
Some Nigerians, including the Ijaw Youths Council, have asked the federal government to legalise and regulate the modular refineries to ensure production of petrol and other by-products and as a means of job creation.
“Licensing modular refineries will reduce the pressure on the naira as the foreign exchange spent on importing the products will be conserved,” the chairman of the Ijaw Council, Udengs Eradiri, said in March.
The federal government has not indicated any willingness to legalise or regulate the modular refineries.
Nigeria has been hit with a scarcity of petrol in the past months that has helped in worsening the already troubled economy. The scarcity has forced many Nigerians, who need petrol for their cars and to power their electric generators, to buy the product at the black market sometimes at 500 per cent increase in price.
News Agency of Nigeria
NSCDC Commandant, Desmond Agu, said that the illegal refineries operated by oil thieves were destroyed between January and March.
Some Nigerians, including the Ijaw Youths Council, have asked the federal government to legalise and regulate the modular refineries to ensure production of petrol and other by-products and as a means of job creation.
“Licensing modular refineries will reduce the pressure on the naira as the foreign exchange spent on importing the products will be conserved,” the chairman of the Ijaw Council, Udengs Eradiri, said in March.
The federal government has not indicated any willingness to legalise or regulate the modular refineries.
Nigeria has been hit with a scarcity of petrol in the past months that has helped in worsening the already troubled economy. The scarcity has forced many Nigerians, who need petrol for their cars and to power their electric generators, to buy the product at the black market sometimes at 500 per cent increase in price.
News Agency of Nigeria
