Chisco, 35, stands ankle deep in a polluted swamp, boiling up crude over a fire. He employs three people.
"I
was jobless, but I have a younger brother who read geology at
university and he taught me the process," he told the newsmen, adding
that it was hazardous work -- "you can easily burn the whole refinery to
the ground".
Godswill,
who also declined to give his surname, teamed up with two of his
friends to start a refinery site two years ago. His main job is
maintaining a depot where crude oil is stored in a large hole that he
dug in the ground.
Whenever police or military discover the site, he says, he simply pays them off.
"Sometimes we have to run away and they burn down the site," he said. "Then we just make a new one."
See one normal working day of him and his company below:
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