Ogun: Avalon Industrial Estate shut down over illegal waste disposal

The Ogun State Government has unopen down Avalon Industrial Estate successful Moloko-Asipa on the Abeokuta-Sagamu Expressway implicit biology infractions successful usurpation of assorted sections of the 2020 Ogun State Waste Management Authority Law.

DAILY POST gathered that the property houses respective industries, including Cherry Motors, May Mall, Hongfu Building Materials Industry, Oolala Global Trading Company, Buyang Industry Limited, Leku Industry, and Abec Kuka Foams.

Speaking connected the shutdown connected Friday, the Special Adviser to the Governor connected Waste Management, Farook Akintunde, said the companies successful the property were recovered blameworthy of dumping waste, including hazardous materials, wrong their contiguous situation and big community.

Akintunde, who besides doubles arsenic the Managing Director of the Ogun State Waste Management Authority (OGWAMA), explained that the enactment contravenes Section 34(1) of the Ogun State Waste Management Law 2020, arsenic good arsenic Section 17 of the aforesaid law, which prohibits the usage of unauthorized discarded collectors for discarded evacuation.

He said, “They were besides recovered culpable of dumping discarded successful amerciable dumpsites, arsenic good arsenic preventing government-licensed discarded collectors from performing their duties successful the property since 2023, successful usurpation of the OGWAMA Law.

“Despite each these infractions, we gave the property the accidental to support itself against these all...