Ogun State Waste Management Authority, OGWAMA, has sealed an automobile assembly plant that specializes in the production of heavy-duty and passenger vehicle for burning waste products in the state.
The plant, Carry Heavy Industry Limited, CHIL, located in Moloko – Asipa near Abeokuta, was sealed for contravening Section 2b(a) of the OGWAMA law that forbids anyone or industry from burning waste.
Special Adviser to the Governor on Waste Management, Farouk Akintunde on Sunday, said the agency had no other option than to shut down the company after several warnings to its management to patronize government approved Private Sector Participants, PSP, instead of burning waste.
According to him, by burning their waste, the company caused air pollution through toxic emissions and health risk not only to their workers but to their vulnerable neighbors.
Akintunde who doubles as Managing Director of OGWAMA, insisted that it is not acceptable to the state government which lays emphasis on the wellbeing of its residents at all time.
He said the company will remain shut until they comply with the state’s extant laws which forbids burning of waste and register with Waste PSP for legal and proper disposal of their waste or in the alternative face strict legal sanctions.
Meanwhile, the agency also warned Camellin Industry Limited on the Sagamu Interchange, Lagos-Ibadan Expressway and sanctioned it for the same offense.
According to Akintunde, the company was 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 firm has been invited.