“A research done at the UPTH found that majority of the males in Port Harcourt have structural anomaly in their sperm cells. Of course, sperm is very much indicated in pregnancy.“It is the sperm that will fertilise the egg in a woman to bring about pregnancy. If they are structurally abnormal, it means they lack the capacity to fertilise an egg. That means they cannot procreate,” he said.
Tired of waiting for the federal government to act on the soot menace, Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, in January this year, declared war on illegal refineries as a way of checking the problem.