Ogun State government has sealed five Chinese companies and arrested some of their officials for assaulting and inflicting bodily harm on law enforcement officers and state government officials while performing their official assignment.
The companies who all operates in the Ogere Axis of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway are DL Plastics Limited, Dyschenghan Plastics, SH Agricultural Limited, Beautiful Fibre Limited and Jincaicai Nigeria Limited.
In ordering their seal-up, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Environment and Managing Director of the Ogun State Waste Management Authority, OGWAMA, Hon Abayomi Hunye said the five companies mobilized, assaulted and inflicted bodily harm on law enforcement officers and state government officials from OGWAMA who were in their premises to seal them after several invitations and official letters were written to them to bring to their notices the serious environmental infractions their different companies have been committing through improper waste disposal, waste burning and refusal to patronize government- recognized waste collectors which are causing serious environmental infraction not only within their premises but in their immediate environment and the state at large.
"We have been on this case for the past six months. We have sent letters to them and invited them to let them know what they have done,but they refused to honor our invitation.Aside
from these letters, our officials have visited them severally but they refused to allow them in".
"After all these efforts proved abortive, we pasted notices of intention to seal them on the their premises especially on their main and entrance gates in the past three months hoping that that will trigger them to honor our invitation. They still refused to come forward, so last week Thursday our officials sealed them by locking their entrance gates. But to our surprise, they did not only remove government seal-order, but they broke government chains used to lock them"
"To enforce the earlier seal-up order, state officials in company of law enforcement officers went to their industries hours ago. However they were met with mob attack by their workers who assaulted and inflicted bodily harm on law enforcement officers and state government officials, who were all rushed to hospital thereby not only preventing them from carrying out their lawful duties but with the intent of to harming them"
Hon Hunye who decried the barbaric action of the five companies said what is even annoying is that these Chinese companies have not only constituted themselves to environmental nuisance with their attitude,conduct and behaviour to constituted environmental authorities but have the enffontry of not only assaulting but inflicting bodily harm on law enforcement officers and state government officials without considering their grave implications.
He added that the Ogun State government will not fold its hands and watch few relcatriant Chinese companies and their nationals carry out such dastardly act under the pretext of investing in the state as any of them caught will be prosecuted under the law of the land.
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