Stakeholders associated with the Port Harcourt Refining Company (PHRC), Alesa-Eleme, Eleme local government area, Rivers State, have threatened to boycott the forthcoming general elections over the non-availability of crude oil for refining.
Addressing newsmen in Port Harcourt, yesterday, one of the stakeholders and coordinator of the Coalition of the South South and South East Youths (CSSSEY), Comrade Godspower Igwe, described the non-availability of crude oil for refining as unacceptable.
Igwe said, “Even though the PHRC is working at over 70 per cent installed capacity and it is just 60 kilometres to transport crude oil from the Bonny Terminal to the place following the termination of the use of pipelines due to acts of vandalism, it is so sad that nothing is happening there.
“As I speak, over 10 million persons benefitting from the PHRC depot operations have been suffering hunger and frustration since depots in Aba, Calabar, Enugu, and Port Harcourt are directly linked to it. If this does not stop, we will all boycott the next election.”
Also speaking, the public relations officer (PRO) of the Ogoni and Eleme Joint Stakeholders Forum at the PHRC depot, Comrade Sunny Saro, attributed the development to deliberate sabotage.
Saro said, “Since 2014, crude was only supplied in March when the use of marine vessels to carry crude was commissioned. (Leadership)
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