The Ogun State Waste Management Authority has sealed two Chinese companies for allegedly violating the state’s environmental regulations.
In a statement released on Sunday, the Authority explained that this action followed numerous warnings that the companies had ignored.
The companies were found to be failing to engage accredited waste collectors for proper waste management.
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The companies affected are Yibao Industrial Limited, located at Bara Village along the Sagamu-Abeokuta Expressway, and Ronchang Industrial Park, situated opposite the Julius Berger yard on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
The enforcement team, led by the Managing Director of the Authority, Abayomi Hunye, conducted the sealing.
Hunye accused the companies of littering their premises with waste, which violates Section 17 of the Ogun State Waste Management Law 2020.
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Additionally, he stated that the companies had used unaccredited waste collectors, also in breach of Section 17 of the Ogun State Waste Management Authority Law 2020.
“The essence of shutting them down is to ensure that they comply with the standard ways of managing wastes in the state,” he said
“We have served them several notices and warnings and they refused to comply. We have even gone to their premises for inspections severally to counsel them to clean their environment and engage government-approved waste collectors but they were unyielding.
“They both engage unaccredited waste collectors who cannot manage their waste. That is why their premises are dirty thereby exposing residents of the state to unnecessary odour and possible underground water infections from their untreated waste.
“So we have no alternative than to shut them down in the overriding public interest as their behaviour and action smacks of gross disrespect to constituted authority especially from companies owned by foreigners who are hellbent on destroying our environment,” he said.
Hunye warned that any company, regardless of whether it is Nigerian or foreign-owned, would face sanctions if found guilty of similar violations.
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