Agency Seals Pig Farm Over Environmental Law

Abia State Environmental Protection Agency has sealed a pig farm, and a three-storey building in Umuahia, the state capital for contravening the state:s Basic Environmental Law.
The farm and the building are located at Umuogba Ipupe community in Umuahia South local government area, and Area Five, Agbama Housing Estate respectively.
The order by an Environmental Sanitation Court was executed by the general manager (GM) of the agency, Ogbonnaya Okereke through the head of the Monitoring Unit, Okpara Macaulay.
He said this followed the inability of the owner of the farm to obtain appropriate permit, lack of application of necessary precautions to prevent the outbreak of infectious dise...