Ogun seals company over illegal dumpsite, waste burning

Ogun State Waste Management Authority, OGWAMA, has sealed Quantum Packaging Nigeria Limited, a insubstantial processing company, for operating an amerciable dumpsite and burning discarded on Lusada-Igbesa Road successful the Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area.

Special Adviser to the Governor and Managing Director of OGWAMA, Farouk Akintunde, connected Monday said the behaviour contravenes Section 2(b)(a) of the OGWAMA Law 2020 and the Ogun State Environmental and Public Health Law 2006, which wholly prohibition open-air discarded burning and unauthorised garbage dumping.

Akintunde stated that the institution was caught arsenic a effect of broad surveillance mounted connected antithetic facilities, including companies that are recovered to beryllium committing biology infractions.

He said, “As a regulatory body, we are charged with the absorption and medication of waste.

“Regrettably, I was present connected a familiarisation sojourn to this peculiar institution wherever I discovered that they dumped discarded indiscriminately wrong their mill alternatively of allowing gover...