In an effort to enforce compliance with environmental laws, the National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA) has shut down 13 facilities.
During an enforcement exercise and press briefing in Abuja on Friday, the Director-General of NESREA, Aliyu Jauro, stated that the 13 facilities were closed down because they failed to comply with warnings from the agency and violated existing regulations.
The DG who was represented by the Director Inspection and Enforcement, Abdulsalam Isa said the enforcement was part of the Agency’s Key Performance Indicator, KPI to ensure compliance.
He said “In line with the Presidential Bond and as fall out of the Federal Ministry of Environment’s retreat in Kaduna, Environmental Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement was one of the Agency’s KPI for 2024.As part of the National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA) mandate to ensure compliance as well as enforce compliance with extant Environmental Standards, Guidelines , Rules and Regulations in Nigeria, the Agency embarked on enforcement exercise to seal 13 recalcitrant facilities in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
“On Friday, 15th March 2024, NESREA sealed a total of thirteen facilities in the FCT for various environmental crimes. The facilities were shut down 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. A total of ten facilities in the green sector and three in the brown sector were sealed. 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. The Agency 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.” He said.
The sealed facilities are, Veritas Plastics, Almat Farms, Dayak Nigeria Limited, FIK Contracting Limited, Salis Ventilated Homes Ltd, Peachville Estate, Net Construction Nigeria Limited, Sazak Acre Bilogue, Coppa D’alberto Ltd, Efab Properties Ltd, Homes, Phinada Mill, Skippers Electronics.
