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    University don advocates legal action to tackle hydrocarbon soot

    December 19, 2021
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    *Soot envelops Port Harcourt, assails residents

    Mkpoikana Udoma

    Port Harcourt — A university don, Prof Chisa Dike, has charged lawyers and human right crusaders to use the legal means of class action, to deal with the ravaging hydrocarbon soot pollution been experienced in Rivers State and environs.

    A class action is a court case where a group of people who have been injured in a similar manner, file a single lawsuit to seek compensation as a group, against a single party.

    Dike who is a lecturer of Oil and Gas Laws in the Department of Public Law, Faculty of Law, Rivers State University, urged lawyers to take the lead as Rivers people have suffered so much from the soot health wise.

    The university don and legal practitioner who specializes in energy law, oil and gas practice, made the call while speaking on the topic, Curbing the Menace of Soot in Rivers State from Rhetorics to Action, during the 2021 Law Week, organized by the Human Rights Desk of the Nigeria Bar Association in Port Harcourt.

    Also, the Chairman of NBA Human Right Desk Antonia Osadebe, said there was need to take action against soot, due to the harmful effects of the menace on human health.

    Osadebe also called all stakeholders to do justice in bringing soot to a stop in the state.

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