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Sooner we will know who owns the land Uzodimma tells Okorocha
By Chinonso Alozie, Owerri
The former governor of Imo state and Senator representing Imo west Senatorial district, Rochas Okorocha, yesterday claimed that those who attended the stakeholders meeting held in Imo, were not members of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Okorocha through his Special Adviser on media, Sam Onwuemedo, spoke in Owerri, on the Imo stakeholders meeting where there was a resolution that all stolen properties belonging to Imo people be recovered from whoever no matter how highly placed such individual is.
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• As 23,000 persons suffer respiratory related ailment in five years
Following recent increase in activities of illegal refiners and bunkerers, there is fear in Rivers State that this may cause a surge of deadly black soot in the atmosphere. A reviewed report of a technical team set up by the Rivers State government and headed by the state’s former Commissioner for Environment, Prof. Roseline Konya, revealed that about 22,077 persons have suffered from respiratory related ailments in the last five years.
The team, made up 20 experts from various inter-disciplinary and relevant fields, including a consultant physician and dermatologist at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Dr. Dasetima Altraide, had conducted investigative studies into the airborne particulate (soot) in Port Harcourt and the report stated that illegal bunkering and gas flaring are two major sources of soot in the state.