The Ogun State Government has shut down Food Agro and Allied Industries Limited, Kilometre 40, Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, Ijako, Sango-Ota, over environmental infractions and disobeying government orders.
In shutting down the malted sorghum producing company, the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Environment and Chairman of the state’s Task Force on Environmental Compliance and Enforcement, Farook Akintunde, said the company was found guilty of bypassing its effluent treatment plants thereby releasing untreated waste water to its immediate environment, especially to the newly rehabilitated Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway.
This, he noted, was tantamount to willfully destroying public infrastructure, as well as exposing residents to hazards.
Akintunde also said the company was equally culpable of degrading the environment through oil spillage which was not only harmful but would eventually have a negative effect on the ground water of its immediate communities.
