Edo Govt seals poultry, piggery farms over environmental law violations

The Edo State Government said it has sealed 4 poultry farms and a piggery workplace for violating the State Environmental Sanitation and Pollution Management Law.

DAILY POST reports that the State Commissioner for Environment and Sustainability, Nosa Adams, disclosed this astatine the monthly ministerial property briefing connected Wednesday, July 15, 2026, successful Benin City.

Adams, who described the sealing arsenic a large achievement, noted that biology violators had ever taken vantage of the information that the authorities lacked capable laws to modulate their activities.

He added that with the transition of the State Environmental Sanitation and Pollution Management Law successful 2025, the instrumentality would present beryllium efficaciously implemented crossed the state.

He besides disclosed that 30 biology defaulters person been prosecuted retired of the 93 abatement and usurpation notices served connected biology offenders successful the state.

The commissioner stated that the ministry has besides conducted biology audits successful 230 facilities crossed Edo South.

Adams further disclosed that the Federal Government, successful collaboration with the World Bank, volition found biology laboratories successful Edo State.

He said the laboratories would service Edo, Delta, Bayelsa and Ondo states.

He added that the projected laboratories would fortify biology monitoring, contamination power and technological ...