Ogun-Osun River Basin Demands Govt’s Actions Against Pollution

The absorption and unit of the Ogun-Osun River Basin Development Authority (O-ORBDA) connected Monday staged a sensitisation and roadworthy amusement run circular 1 of the busiest streets of Abeokuta metropolis, with a telephone connected governments to measurement up actions against stream pollutions to safeguard the wellness of the citizens.

With a main absorption connected sensitising governments and residents connected the dangers associated with stream pollution, O-ORBDA absorption demanded that stakeholders successful each its catchment areas of Osun, Oyo, Ogun, and Lagos states desist from quality activities that have, implicit the years, constituted nuisances to the lives of each the Rivers and inadvertently impacted humans.

The sensitization campaigns, which was portion of the activities marking the twelvemonth 2025 variation of the World Rivers Day, specifically demanded that argumentation makers, arsenic good arsenic different cardinal players indispensable guarantee that citizens desist from acts of dumping wastes connected the rivers; halt unfastened dedication connected Rivers, arsenic good arsenic prevail connected the bigger companies and Small Scale Enterprises Manufacturers (SMESM) from discharging sewage and different untreated effluents connected Rivers.

Led by the managing manager and main enforcement serviceman (MD/CEO), Engr Deji Ashiru, O-ORBDA absorption urged cardinal stakeholders successful Nigeria’s h2o absorption assemblage to fortify policies that authorisation people, arsenic good arsenic amended enforcement of regulations prohibiting indiscriminate discarded disposal crossed the 4 states.

The sensitisation campaign, however, had a stopover astatine the Laketu River, on the ever-busy Abeokuta-Ibadan road of the Abeokuta metropolis, wherever Ashiru, represented by the O-ORBDA’s Executive Director successful complaint of Planning and Development, Femi Dokunmu, engaged successful a symbolic stream cleaning and histrion planting with representatives of the accepted ruler of the big Alabata Community, arsenic good arsenic that of the Area’s Development Committee, alongside members of the Artisan Association successful the state.

In his lecture astatine the symposium held astatine O-ORBDA’s office to people the day, the impermanent lecturer, Prof. Adeyinka Adebowale Sobowale, called connected the governments of the Oyo, Osun, Ogun, and Lagos States to urgently instal mini discarded h2o attraction plants successful each the abattoirs and different slaughter slabs truthful that their wastes being discharged into the rivers bash not represent a wellness hazard to the citizens.

Shobowale, a Professor of Water and Ecological Resources Engineering astatine the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), Ogun State,  specifically called connected the Ogun State authorities to relocate Manufacturers of the “Adire”/Kampala fabric; 1 of the SMES for which the national authorities has identified arsenic a overseas speech earning sector, alongside the abattoir distant to a concentralised hub wherever their wastes would nary longer represent risks to the wellness of the people.