Burna Boy, a Grammy Award-winning Nigerian singer, has chastised the Rivers State government over the city's environmental predicament. Bunkering and illegal crude oil refining are becoming increasingly common in Rivers State's riverine villages.
Burna Boy sought a solution to the threat in a series of posts.
Burna Boy looked for a way forward alongside images of dark clouds and people with blacked-out faces.
"Dark clouds above my city, what is the road forward?" he wrote in his message.
"For my people, bright sunny days now seem like this."
"In Portharcourt, put a stop to the soot."
Meanwhile, Governor Nyesom Wike has been accused by the All Progressives Congress (APC) of encouraging illicit oil bunkering, which is the main cause of the soot that is shortening the lives of citizens in the state.
Wike had promised to publish the names of "those behind unlawful bunkering activities in Okrika villages, Rivers South-East and Rivers South-West Senatorial Districts and declare them wanted" in a state-wide broadcast days ago.
-dailypost.ng
