The Ogun State Government has banned dredging and sand mining activities in various sites across the state with immediate effect.

The government explained that the practices were “constituting environmental nuisance and degradations in various parts of the state.”

The Special Adviser to the Governor on Environment, Ola Oresanya, disclosed this on Friday when he led the Environmental Assessment Inspection Team to Abule-Oko community, Magboro, in the Obafemi Owode Local Government of the state.

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It was learnt that dredging and sand mining activities had led to environmental degradation in the community and its environs.

Oresanya said the state government had no choice but to announce the stop-work order as the situation had equally impinged “on the likelihood and well-being of inhabitants of various communities where they operate across the state.”