Implications of Legalizing Illegal Refining of Crude Oil Operation by Some Niger Delta Youths in Rivers State, Nigeria
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The study investigated the implications of legalizing illegal refining of crude oil operation by some Niger Delta youths in Rivers State, Nigeria. A descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. A population of all male and female fuel consumers was adopted for the study. From this population, a sample size of 240 male and 184 female fuel consumers was sampled through purposive random sampling technique. Four research questions were answered and two hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study adopted a four partitioned survey questionnaire tagged "Implications of Legalizing Illegal Refining of Crude Oil (ILIRCO)", for the study. The instrument was face and content validated by an expert in the oil and technological industry in Rivers State. The reliability of the instrument was tested using Cronbach Alpha Reliability Coefficient method and Kuder Richardson 21 Reliability coefficient. Frequency, Mean and Standard Deviation were used to answer the research questions while Z-test Statistical tool was used to test the hypotheses of the instrument. The study found that illegal refining of crude oil has a negative impact on human's live, animal, farmland and aquatic lives, and that this can be mitigated by legalizing the process of illegal refining of crude oil through amnesty for repentant illegal oil refiners, registration of all illegal oil refiners, giving of licence and training of all illegal oil refiners and others. This process will improve the economy of Rivers State and Nigeria at large through the provision of job opportunities for youths and others. The study recommended that the talents of illegal oil refiners should be harnessed by government in order to set-up local refineries that can produce fuel under a well supervised process.
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