Ogijo Pollution: Federal Government Meets Recyclers, Threatens Licence Revocation

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

The director-general of NESREA, Prof. Innocent Barikor, gave the informing of Tuesday 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, deficiency of workers’ wellness surveillance, among others.

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, to show work and to bring your facilities into afloat compliance. NESREA has shown patience successful the past, but that model is closing.”

Prof. Barikor further directed that the operators perpetrate to addressing installation circumstantial 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 recyling facilities of failing to abide by guidelines acceptable retired by the State Government for the evacuation of slag from the community.

Present astatine the gathering were 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 sector.