13 Firms Shut In Abuja Over Environmental Offences

National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA) has sealed 13 facilities in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) for violation of environmental laws.

The sealed facilities include Veritas Plastics, Almat Farms, Dayak Nigeria Limited, FIK Contracting Limited, Peachville Estate, Net Construction Nigeria Limited and  Sazak Acre Bilogue.

Others are Coppa D‘Alberto Ltd, Efab Properties Ltd, Homes, Salis Ventilated Homes Ltd, Phinada Mill and Skippers’ Electronics.

Addressing journalists after the exercise, director-general of NESREA, Prof. Aliyu Jauro said the facilities were sealed for failing to abate environmental concerns ranging from Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), Environmental Audit (EA), Environmental Management Plans, Environmental Permit e.t.c. both in the Green and Brown Environment.

He said a total of 10 facilities in the green sector and three in the brown sector were sealed.

Represented by the director, inspector and enforcement, Abdusalam Isa, the DG said the agency had followed due process in clamping down these facilities after exhausting all relevant communications in respect of their environmental status.

It was observed that some of the facilities earlier sealed had broken the federal government seals, however, such facilities are to face punitive measures for their actions, Jauro added.

He said NESREA frowns at the high level of non-compliance of facilities to environmental laws of the land and will go ahead to replicate enforcement in all states of the federation.