OGEPA mediate dispute between company, Ogijo community

The Ogun State Environmental Protection Agency, OGEPA, has intervened successful a quality betwixt Monarch Steel Mill Limited and the Olorunsogo Ipetoro Community Development Association, CDA, Ogijo, Sagamu Local Government Area, pursuing a petition submitted by the community.

The petition, signed by the Chairman of the community, Michael Bilesanmi, was presented to OGEPA, drafting the agency’s attraction to concerns surrounding the enlargement program of the industry.

The assemblage besides sought an probe into the company’s acquisition of properties wrong the community, expressing concerns implicit the mode successful which the workout was being carried out.

In effect to the petition, the General Manager of OGEPA, Kehinde Bello, convened a stakeholders’ gathering involving representatives of the assemblage and the institution to resoluteness the issues done dialog and communal understanding.

Speaking during the gathering on Thursday, Bello stressed the value of due concern planning, noting that industries should beryllium located wrong designated concern zones. He added that biology sustainability and the payment of big communities indispensable stay a precedence successful concern development.

Bello explained that the enlargement was portion of the process of establishing a projected buffer zone, aimed astatine ensuring the company’s operations bash not adve...