The Ogun State Government has sealed three companies for violation of various environmental laws in the State.
The offenders are Ruili Recycling Limited in Mowe, Robust International PTE Limited, also in Mowe and Star Pipe Limited in the Sagamu area of the State.
The lock-up operations were said to be part of the government’s continued “efforts at laying a solid foundation for environmental best practices in the State.
Ordering the closures, the Commissioner for Environment, Ola Oresanya, explain that Ruili Recycling, a pet bottles recycling company, was found guilty of discharging its wastes and stormwater into their immediate environment, especially in the premises of Christopher University, which exposed the students to avoidable danger as well as its refusal to obtain drainage approval to properly channel the unwanted water to the appropriate place.
The commissioner further accused the company of “burning all its solid wastes within its premises contrary to the State’s Environmental Laws, thereby exposing its workers and residents of its immediate communities to toxic and hazardous pollution”.
For Robust International PTE, Oresanya said the company illegally demolished a fence bounding them with the same Christopher University so as to reclaim some portion of land and subsequently divert all stormwater to the premises of the institution as well as their failure to heed the government’s directives for proper remediation.
Oresanya however, insisted that the State government will not fold its hands and watch the two industries expose the students of the institution and residents of their immediate communities “to suffer from their careless environmental infractions while they feel unconcerned”.
The third company, Star Pipe Limited, Sagamu, was also said to have been shut after they refused entreaties to install effluent treatment plants into their facilities as they discharge raw and hydrolic acid into their immediate environment.
This, Oresanya said has led to contamination of ground water of these communities which has made the water unsafe and unhygienic.
“The three companies will remain shut until they correct all the lapses detected as the State government is not interested in closing them down but for them to operate according to the best global environmental standards which the state government has adopted”, Oresanya said.
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