A resolution calling on the State Environmental Protection Agency (OGEPA) to enforce the emission control regulation in Ogun State so as to protect residents from adverse health hazard caused by the release of carbon-monoxide and hydrocarbons into the atmosphere has been passed by the state’s House of Assembly.
Opening debate on the motion, the sponsor, who is also a member representing Obafemi Owode State Constituency, Hon. Tunde Sanusi stated that it was important to accord high priority to the wellbeing of the citizenry in accordance with Section 20 of the 1999 Constitution as amended, while explaining that the high level of emission was dangerous to the environment.
Corroborating the sponsor’s submission, other members including the Majority leader, Hon. Adeyinka Mafe, Adeyemi Harrison, Adebiyi Adeleye, Ganiyu Oyedeji underscored the need to immediately step up measures to control the high rate of industrial emission in the State to address the damage it could cause to the overall wellbeing of the people.
Also speaking, the Deputy Speaker, Olakunle Oluomo as well as Honourables Akinpelu Aina and Rasaq Oduntan, posited that the State, being the new industrial hub of the nation required proactive measures to control the rate of industrial emission to prevent continued depletion of the ozone layer.
Meanwhile, the Speaker of the Assembly, Rt. Hon Suraju Ishola Adekunbi has called on the youth in the State to avoid being used as destructive agents by unscrupulous politicians to truncate the peace and tranquility being enjoyed in the State.
Adekunbi made the appeal while responding to the submissions of members representing Ado-Odo/Ota II and Ijebu North II State Constituencies, Honourables Akinpelu Aina and Oludare Kadiri who complained about the recent violent clash by politicians and their followers in their constituencies.
The Speaker, who appealed to politicians in the State not to turn the gateway State to a battle field, reminded them that political activities in the State had always been done in a peaceful atmosphere in the last six years of the present administration.
He lauded the State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun and various security agencies in the State for moving swiftly to checkmate the movement of the notorious Badoo cult group into the State from Ikorodu in Lagos State.
Earlier, Hon. Aina had reported that one of his constituents, Mutiu Agbaje was killed during a political meeting of an opposition party, just as Hon. Kadiri decried the actions of politicians in his constituencies who promote cultism and hooliganism ahead of 2019 electioneering campaign.
On his part, the Majority Leader, Hon. Adeyinka Mafe reported the alleged invasion of his constituency by the notorious Badoo cult group especially at Ogijo which shares boundary with Ikorodu, a neighboring community in Lagos State, while calling on the security agencies to step up measures at nipping them in the bud.
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