The Senate President of National Association of Polytechnic Students ( NAPS) Condemned the Act of Negligence of Segilola Operating Resources Company Limited on Environmental degradation,Host Community neglect, environmental Pollution and not been Friendly to the Students Community in Osun State.
NAPS Senate frown at Operations of Segilola Operating Resource Limited iperindo over not been Friendly to the Students community , the lackadaisical attitude towards the host community, air and water pollution is becoming unbearable in the Community, the lives of the Citizens of the host community where some of our Students reside is no longer save, we are calling on Federal Government and Osun State Government to stop the Operation of Segilola for now until the right thing is done, the lives of our people in the host Community is very important to us and the Nation,having carried out series of investigation on the activities of the said company and its environmental impacts on our people, we have decided to make our positions known before causing serious havoc within the region.”
As a students’ body, we have read and heard of the operations of Segilola Operating Resource Company in the Atakunmosa East Local Government Area of Osun State which deals in what we best describeed as illegal gold mining in the Iperindo axis of Ilesha.”
And the activities of this company is being carried out very closed to two tertiary institutions, Osun State College of Education and Osun State College of Health Technology, Ilesha and the same water flows through Osun State College Technology Esa Oke,In addition to this, it contaminates water, causes slow growth rate in plants and respiratory problem, liver and kidney damage in man and damages landscapes which leads to displacing communities and households.
As an association, we deem it fit to demand for the observation of the whole mining site as being operated by Segilola Operating Resource Company in the Iperindo area of Ilesha so as to evaluate the physical impact of mining and to collect soul samples from the surface of the mined and un-mined area within the mining sites for some laboratory tests to be conducted on it before it started affecting the physical structures of the two tertiary institutions and the students themselves.
Going forward, we say a total No to the illegal mining in any part of the South Western region most especially Osun state, where the consequences may fall on students and the community, hence, immediate government intervention is needed urgently,” the state ended.
The Welfare and good health for the Citizens of the Host Community should be a priority of any organization and the Government.
Stop the Operation of Segilola now or the Students will mobilize in thousands to picket the Segilola company in few days from Now.
Aluta Continua..Victoria Ascerta.
Signed:
Comrade Adeniji Boluwaji Temitope
NAPS Senate President
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