By Nneka Nwogwugwu
The Mayor of Port Harcourt, Allwel Ihunda, has vowed to demolish shanties and other illegal structures close to a tank farm at the Abonema Wharf axis of the Rivers State capital.
This came after an inferno occurred on Friday, destroying goods and property worth millions of naira at the area on storage of adulterated petroleum products in the shanties.
He said: “When we investigated what led to the fire I was told that the fire started as a result of storage of adulterated petroleum products within illegal structures situated on the road to tank farms around the area.
“Unfortunately, the company closed to this place is Shell Petroleum Development Company(SPDC) and I am surprised that they have not responded.
“I have been trying to see if I can get in contact with them, to find out really why they have not responded taking into consideration that they have a facility just close to where the fire incident happened.
“All the illegal structures around here henceforth will cease to exist from Monday next week we are going to demolish all the illegal structures on this road. Because these structures are places where these products are stored that always results in fire outbreaks”.
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