Ogijo Pollution: Agency Threatens Revocation Of Licences

National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA) has threatened to revoke the operational licences of recycling facilities that garbage to comply with the agreed-upon protocol for remediation of the Ogijo Community successful Ogun State.

The manager wide of NESREA, Prof. Innocent Barikor, gave the informing during a gathering with recyclers whose facilities were sealed successful a caller clampdown connected recalcitrant facilities successful the South West Zone of the country.

Nine facilities operating successful the artillery recycling assemblage successful Ogijo were sealed for causing biology contamination successful the assemblage done mediocre slag management, manual artillery breaking, uncontrolled pb particulate emissions, and a deficiency of workers’ wellness surveillance, among different things.

Prof. Barikor stated, “The enforcement enactment was taken arsenic a indispensable archetypal measurement to safeguard lives and reconstruct biology integrity. Facilities volition stay sealed until verifiable corrective actions are taken.”

“What we person astatine contiguous is anarchic and not sustainable. This is your accidental to reset, show responsibility, and bring your facilities into afloat compliance. NESREA has shown patience successful the past, but that model is closing”, helium said.

Prof. Barikor further directed that the operators perpetrate to addressing facility-specific environmental/ operational concerns, observe the penalties for indiscriminate dumping and non-compliance, and instrumentality steps towards adopting cleaner technologies.

In his intervention, the director, Hazardous Materials Management and Environmental Safety for Ogun State Environmental Protection Agency (OGEPA), Lawal Babatunde, accused the facilities of failing to abide by the authorities government’s guidelines for evacuating slag from the community.

The enforcement caput of the Alliance for Responsible Battery Recycling (ARBR), Mrs Miranda Amachree, and operators of facilities successful the artillery and basal metallic recycling sectors were contiguous astatine the meeting.