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Nigerian academic and politician from Khana, Rivers State

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Roseline Sonayee Konya is a Nigerian academic and a politician from Khana, Rivers State. She is a professor of Toxicology and Pharmacology at the University of Port Harcourt.

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I advice the people of the state and Ogoni to plant more trees in the environment, it helps in redeeming the environment. I also propose a collaboration of the scientists and toxicologists.

The State Government arrived at the decision to set up a technical committee to address the sources of soot. after a detailed consideration of the report of the Scientific Committee.

Ogoni communities were very susceptible to the precarious toxins.

Economists, as parts of their contributions, are developing ways to measure the multi-trillion-dollar worth of many so-called ecosystems services, the ministry was reviewing and updating its extant laws for the enforcement and achievement of best environment practices including green economic policies.

Nature’s gifts were hard to value in monetary terms. Like clean air, they are often taken for granted at least until they become scarce, such levity had resulted to the environment’s degradation at the detriment of the rural people.

Rural dwellers are the first to suffer from threats of ecosystems either by pollution, climate change or over-exploitation.

There are several toxins that come from oil exploration activities that devastate the environment.

The fight against oil pollution cannot be won except toxicologists are actively involved, they develop safer chemicals that will control pollution.

It has come to the notice of the state government of the sudden appearance of strange black soot deposit noticeably seen on cars and rooftops in our environment especially in Port Harcourt and its environs. The public is hereby advised not to panic as the Ministry of Environment has duly dispatched its officials to different locations in the state to monitor and locate the source of the black soot for prompt action.

I commend the GOC and his officers for their great efforts so far.

Billions of rural people around the world spend every working day connected to nature and appreciate fully well their dependence on natural water supplies.

There is lack of sound chemical management in Rivers state, especially Ogoniland. Oil management is taken for granted. As oil creates jobs, so also it has caused pollution by throwing toxic material into the environment.

The inclusion of security agencies and International Oil Companies (IOCs) and the Civil Society Groups on the Committee by Governor Nyesom Wike during the inauguration was a deliberate attempt by the present administration to end the menace.

The State Executive Council went ahead and appointed members of the Technical committee for purpose of the implementation of the report of the scientific committee.

Toxicologists are not supposed to come into work when the damage has been done to the environment, rather they should be actively involved to work alongside the oil explorers so that all chemical wastes would be handled appropriately.