Roseline Konya

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

"Ogoni communities were very susceptible to the precarious toxins."

"The chemicals inappropriately disposed into the environment have an irreversible effect and Ogoni communities are disposed to this."

"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."

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

"They are among the first to suffer when ecosystems are threatened whether by pollution, climate change or over-exploitation."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"It is apparently obvious that the state government cannot decontaminate the airspace, but it can put a stop to this pollution if the source of the soot is located. Consequently, the public is hereby urged to complement the effort of the state government by assisting to look for the source of this strange soot."