Ogun seals 5 industries

The Ogun State Environmental Protection Agency (OGEPA) has sealed off five industries over alleged environmental infractions.

The companies are Nixim Paper Limited, 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 companies operating illegally in the Ogere axis of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

The Chairman of the Ogun State Taskforce on Environmental Compliance and Enforcement and Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Environment, Alhaji Farook Akintunde, led the enforcement team to seal the companies.

He said they were shut down after the agency received petitions from their immediate communities of their incessant discharge of untreated waste water into the environment.

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He said, “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 waste water into their immediate communities.

“The state government was, therefore, left with no option 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 (ETPs).”