Ogun reintroduces emission control scheme, signs MoU

TO further ensure a healthy environment devoid of gaseous and vehicular emissions, the Ogun State government has repackaged and reintroduced the Vehicle Emission Control Scheme.The state Commissioner for Environment, Adebayo Fari, said while signing of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the scheme with successful consultants, regretted that gaseous emission from vehicles, motorcycles, trucks, trailers, generating sets and industrial machines have been generating global negative effects on air pollution with adverse effect climate change.This, he said is of concern to the government thus prompting its commitment to stop it in the state.'Researches and studies have shown that of all the source of air pollution, vehicular emission accounts for more than 50 per cent followed by industrial discharges.'It is in the realisation of this fact that the world body through the United Nation Organisation and other relevant International agencies put in place various mechanism for abating, controlling and monitoring vehicular gaseous emission with Ogun State not being an exemption,' Fari stated.Speakingon the legislative empowerment of the scheme, the commissioner said his ministry through the Ogun State Environment Protection Agency (OGEPA) is powered by OGEPA Edict No1 of 1995 4ection2 (a-e) to make regulations and prescribe emission standards for discharge into the atmosphere.He, however, charged all the successful consultants to be civil in enforcing the law, transparent with the government and diligent in their assignment, adding that impact on the health of residents and not necessarily fund generation is the underlining factor for the re-introduction of the scheme.
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