The Ogun State Government has closed down an agro-processing business enterprise named, Supreme Agro Limited in Igbesa, Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of the state.
The state government revealed that the action was in line with its persisting efforts to ensure an environment free of any form of danger.
The company was charged with engaging in harmful industrial pollution that had contributes to destroying the ecosystem of their host community.
It was gathered that several complaints had been made by the Igbesa host community while ensuing verifications and warnings were done by the Ogun State Environmental Task Force.
According to the Commissioner for Environment, Ola Oresanya, the company, despite previously denying it, had been found guilty of industrial pollution as it expels its untreated wastewater into the community, badly affecting the well-being of residents of the area.
“Instead of installing sewage plants that would contain the wastewater and get rid of hazardous components before expelling them to surrounding water bodies, the company completely ignored the plant and removed the wastewater directly into the community, amounting to an eyesore and impacting negatively on the environment.”
Oresanta had gone on to describe the act as, “self serving and callous” on the part of the company because the wastewater had toxic components such as heavy metals in them as well as carcinogenic materials and chemicals which harm the people, leading to avoidable deaths.
Oresanya had asserted that the company will remain closed until it the environment reverted back to normal and until the company became more responsible in its production processes and carried its host community along with its level of remediation.
