Ogun seals automobile assembly plant for waste burning

Ogun State Waste Management Authority, OGWAMA has sealed an automobile assembly plant,Carry Heavy Industry Limited (CHIL) Moloko - Asipa near Abeokuta that specializes in the production of heavy-duty and passenger vehicle for contravening Section 2b(a) of the OGWAMA law which explicitly forbids anyone or industry from burning waste in the state.

In ordering the closure of the Industry,Special Adviser to the Governor on Waste Management who doubles as Managing Director of OGWAMA, Hon Farouk Akintunde said the Authority had no other option than shutting the company down after several warnings to its management to patronize government approved Waste Private Sector Participants PSP to service them instead of burning them which is illegal, wicked and self centered.

According to him,by burning their waste they caused air pollution through toxic emissions and health risk not only to their workers but to their vulnerable neighbours which he said is not acceptable to the state government which lays emphasis on the wellbeing of its residents at all time.

Akintunde said the company will remain shut until they comply with the state extant law which forbids burning of waste and property register with Waste PSP for legal and proper disposal of their waste or in the alternative face strict legal sanctions.

In the meantime, OGWAMA has also warned Camellin Industry Limited on the Sagamu Interchange, Lagos-Ibadan Expressway has equally been sanctioned for the same offense.

According to Akintunde,they were equally found guilty of waste burning which is inimical to the wellbeing of their workers and their immediate environment adding that the management of the industry has been invited to show cause why they should not be sanctioned or prosecuted.