Alleged Lead Poisoning: Ogun govt begins remediation exercise in Ogijo

The Ogun State authorities has flagged-off a Remediation Exercise aimed astatine freeing Ogijo and neighboring communities from immoderate signifier of Lead contamination. 

This followed elaborate process audit of each Used Lead Acid Battery, ULAB facilities and bid of tests carried retired connected soil, water, aerial and humor tests connected residents of the Industrial municipality aft an alleged pb poisoning.

Flagging disconnected the remediation exercise, the General Manager of the State Environmental Protection Agency, OGEPA, Kehinde Bello said the authorities authorities arsenic portion of the workout has began to evacuate slag dumped successful assorted communities wrong the municipality owed to their hazardous nature.

He noted that this volition escaped residents of the communities who are not alert of their hazardous quality of immoderate contamination. 

“ The evacuation of this slag volition instrumentality america weeks to implicit due to the fact that tons of them are illegally dumped successful galore communities surrounding the ULAB facilities arsenic the authorities authorities determined to evacuate them successful the wide nationalist involvement and well-being of the residents.”

He assured those surviving successful Ogijo and adjacent by communities that the epoch of amerciable dumping of slag is implicit arsenic the authorities authorities has directed each the ULAB ...