He named the affected companies as follows: Ruili Recycling Limited, Mowe; Robust International PTE Limited is also based in Mowe and Star Pipe Limited, Sagamu.
Ogun State government says it has shut down three companies due to environmental pollution.
The Commissioner for Environment, Ola Oresanya, made this known in a statement on Sunday.
He named the affected companies: Ruili Recycling Limited, Mowe; Robust International PTE Limited Mowe and Star Pipe Limited, also in Sagamu.
Oresanya revealed that Ruili Recycling, a pet bottle recycling company, has been found guilty of discharging its waste and storm water into its immediate environment especially into the premises of Christopher University.
According to him, this practice exposes students to avoidable danger, as well as refusing to obtain drainage approval to properly direct unwanted water to the appropriate places.
Apart from this, he said, it was also discovered that the company burns all its solid waste at its facilities in violation of state environmental laws, thereby exposing its workers and nearby communities to toxic and hazardous pollution.
As for Robust International PTE, Oresanya said the company “illegally pulled down a fence attached to the same Christopher University to reclaim part of the land and then diverted all the stormwater to the institution’s premises.”
Oresanya said the state government “will not sit idly by and watch the two industries expose the students at the institution and the residents of their immediate communities to suffer from their careless environmental violations while they feel unconcerned”.
Oresanya said the third company, Star Pipe Limited, Sagamu, was shut down after rejecting requests to install sewage treatment plants at their facilities because they discharged raw and hydrolyzed acids into the surrounding environment.
He added that this led to the contamination of the groundwater of these communities, making them unsafe and unhealthy.
The commissioner added that “the three companies will remain closed until they correct all the deficiencies detected, as the state government is not interested in closing them but in operating them to the best standards “global environmental standards adopted by the state government”.
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