Alleged lead poisoning – Ogun govt sets up joint monitoring committee

The Ogun State authorities has set-up a 15-member Joint Monitoring Committee to escaped Ogijo and its environs of immoderate signifier of contamination especially, pb poisoning.

The Commissioner for Environment successful the state, Ola Oresanya made this known connected Wednesday, portion inaugurating the Committee.

According to him, the Committee would service arsenic a span betwixt the authorities authorities and the assemblage arsenic members were strategically selected by virtuousness of their residential proximity to the Used Lead Acid Batteries(ULAB) recycling facilities whose activities led to the alleged pb poisoning and their progressive information astatine the precocious held assemblage engagements successful Ogijo.

Aside from these, the committee would besides supply localized oversight connected operations of ULAB facilities, facilitate the reportage of biology and wellness interest arsenic good arsenic enactment transparency successful remediation and compliance processes successful Ogijo community.

He said, “Environmental extortion cannot beryllium achieved done regularisation unsocial arsenic it requires assemblage vigilance, shared work and communal trust.

“Therefore members of this Joint Monitoring Committee carries an important mandate to enactment objectively, responsibly and ...