Gombe State Commandant of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Muhammad Muazu, on Monday listed the raw materials used in the illegal refinery to manufacture gas.
He made this disclosure in an interview with our correspondent at the command’s office.
Periscope Nigeria had reported how compound belonging to 44-year-old Abubakar Aliyu, was sealed by Standard Organisation of Nigeria following his arrest by NSCDC for running a gas manufacturing outfit within residential area.
According to Muazu, “the raw materials include used tyre, used rubber, used polythene, used engine oil, also the chemicals in use are SODA (NAOH) and sulphuric acid added for cleansing.”
The NSCDC Commandant explained that the procedures for production of gas in the illegal refinery are chromotography, sublimation, evaporation and condensation which a viable refinery deploys for its activities, noting that the difference is the non inclusion of crude.
While lamenting the misunderstanding that the arrest of the businessman would derail investment in the state, Muazu said, “Primarily, my call is to the potential investors to Gombe State that the state command will never cause any impediment or hitch to their investment. I want to assure potential investors willing to come to Gombe State that their businesses will be highly protected, they have nothing to lose. There is no petroleum refinery what we shut was a different thing all together and what was done was to safeguard residents on environmental, health hazards that may emerge following the establishment of the company.”
He added, “The raw materials are highly polluted, from emission of odour, and it could harm innocent people. We don’t want the investors to start struggling for space with counterfeiters. We need the state to develop.”
Muazu commended the efforts of Aliyu, stressing that his greatest undoing was failure to register the business with stakeholders for due diligence, “I must commend the intelligence of the owner for coming up with the innovation towards contributing his quota to solve challenges of motorists but he failed to contact relevant agencies in order to get due certifications. The company in question is not registered with Corporate Affairs Commission, as well as relevant stakeholders like Standard Organisation of Nigeria, Ministry of Trade and Investment,” Muazu added.
