The Ogun State Environmental Protection Agency has sealed five industries for environmental infractions.
The companies are Nixim Paper Limited, and Long Xiang Aluminum both at the Sagamu axis of the Lagos -Ibadan Expressway, New Shidai Manufacturing Limited, Mowe in Obafemi Owode Local Government Area and two unregistered companies operating illegally in the Ogere axis of the Lagos -Ibadan Expressway.
According to a statement on Sunday, the Chairman of the Ogun State Taskforce on Environmental Compliance and Enforcement who doubles as a Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Environment, Farook Akintunde, who led the enforcement team to seal the companies said they were shut down after the Environmental Protection Agency received petitions from the immediate communities of their incessant discharge of untreated wastewater into the environment.
“This was confirmed by OGEPA which issued a Stop Work Order for them to stop production and correct the anomaly.
“Instead of them to obey the order, they ignored it and continued to degrade the environment with the discharge of their harmful untreated wastewater into their immediate communities,” he said.
He added “The state government was therefore left with no options than to shut them down in the overriding public interest and compelled them to stop their harmful environmental practice as it was also discovered that they don’t have Effluent Treatment Plants ETP which they must have and installed to stop their incessant and harmful wastewater discharge”
Also speaking on their closure, the Special Adviser to the Governor on the Ogun State Environmental Protection Agency OGEPA, Dr Oluwadare Kehinde, said the company will now be forced after several warnings to abide by waste water regulations in the state which is crucial at preventing water pollution and maintaining water quality standard.
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