Nigerian government cracks down but illegal refining won’t go away
Issue 245
- 13 Dec 2012
| 3 minute read
Joint Task Force (JTF) officers charged with addressing oil theft, illegal refining and pipeline vandalism on 5 December saw smoke rising from forest in Kogi State’s Okene Local Government Area; it was the 52nd makeshift refinery the JTF claimed to have identified and destroyed during a late November/early December crackdown.
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