The Ogun state government has sealed five Chinese companies and arrested some of its officials for “assaulting and inflicting bodily harm on law enforcement officers and state government officials while performing their official assignment.”

The companies operate around the Ogere Axis of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway are DL Plastics Limited, Dyschenghan Plastics, SH Agricultural Limited, Beautiful Fibre Limited and Jincaicai Nigeria Limited.

In ordering their seal-up, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Environment and Managing Director of the Ogun State Waste Management Authority (OGWAMA), Hon Abayomi Hunye, said the five companies mobilized, assaulted and inflicted bodily harm on law enforcement officers and state government officials from the agency who were in their premises to seal them after several unanswered invitations. 

“We have been on this case for the past six months. We have sent letters to them and invited them to let them know what they have done,but they refused to honor our invitation.

“Aside from these letters, our officials have visited them severally but they refused to allow them in.

“After all these efforts proved abortive, we pasted notices of intention to seal them on the their premises especially on their main and entrance gates in the past three months hoping that that will trigger them to honor our invitation. 

“They still refused to come forward, so last week Thursday our officials sealed them by locking their entrance gates. But to our surprise, they did not only remove government seal-order, but they broke government chains used to lock them. 

“To enforce the earlier seal-up order, state officials in company of law enforcement officers went to their industries hours ago. However they were met with mob attack by their workers who assaulted and inflicted bodily harm on law enforcement officers and state government officials, who were all rushed to hospital thereby not only preventing them from carrying out their lawful duties but with the intent of to harming them”, Hunye said.

Hunye however, said the Ogun state government will not fold its hands and watch few relcatriant Chinese companies and their nationals carry out such dastardly act under the pretext of investing in the state as any of them caught will be prosecuted under the law of the land.