Ogun seals 5 Chinese firms, arrests staff over assault

By James Ogunnaike

The Ogun State Government has sealed 5 Chinese companies and arrested immoderate of their officials for assaulting and inflicting bodily harm connected instrumentality enforcement officers and authorities officials portion they were performing their lawful duties.

The companies, located successful the Ogere axis of the Lagos–Ibadan Expressway, see DL Plastics Limited, Dyschenghan Plastics, SH Agricultural Limited, Beautiful Fibre Limited, and Jincaicai Nigeria Limited.

The Special Adviser to the Governor connected Environment and Managing Director of the Ogun State Waste Management Authority, OGWAMA, Abayomi Hunye, said the companies mobilised their workers to onslaught the officials who had gone to enforce a seal-up bid aft repeated warnings.

According to him, the firms were repeatedly invited and officially notified of their biology infractions, including improper discarded disposal, unfastened discarded burning, and refusal to prosecute government-approved discarded collectors.

“These infractions are not lone degrading their premises but besides threatening their big communities and the authorities astatine large,” Hunye said.

He explained that contempt six months of letters, invitations, and visits by authorities officials, the companies refused to cooperate. Notices of volition to seal their premises were pasted connected their gates for implicit 3 months, but the companies ignored them.

“When our officials yet sealed the companies past Thursday by locking their entranceway gates, the firms brazenly broke authorities chains and removed the seal order,” helium stated.

To enforce the order, OGWAMA officials, accompanied by instrumentality enforcement officers, revisited the premises. However, they were violently attacked by workers who inflicted injuries connected some instrumentality enforcement and authorities officials, forcing them to beryllium rushed to the hospital. Hunye condemned the enactment arsenic “barbaric.”

describing it arsenic a amusement of contempt for authorities authority.

“What is much disturbing is that these companies, isolated from constituting themselves arsenic biology nuisances, had the effrontery to battle and inflict bodily harm connected instrumentality enforcement officers and authorities officials,” helium said.

He warned that the authorities authorities would not fold its arms and let a fewer recalcitrant overseas companies and their nationals to undermine the regularisation of instrumentality nether the guise of investment.

“Any of them caught volition beryllium prosecuted nether the laws of the land,” Hunye declared.

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