{"id":7076,"date":"2019-12-10T09:07:14","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T06:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=7076"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:45","slug":"pollution-nema-withdraws-agro-chemicals-licence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/12\/10\/pollution-nema-withdraws-agro-chemicals-licence\/","title":{"rendered":"Pollution: Nema Withdraws Agro-Chemicals Licence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Rushdie Oudia <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">National Environment Management Authority (Nema) has withdrawn the effluent discharge licence of Kisumu-based Agro-Chemicals and Food Company over non-compliance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company has been accused of releasing raw industrial waste into River Nyando.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nema Acting Director-General Mamo Boru Mamo instructed his officers to draft withdrawal of the licence following the company\u2019s persistent violation of the environmental laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said the continued pollution of river Nyando was making its water unfit for domestic use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ignored Orders <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAgro-Chemicals have not been taking matters seriously, we have been issuing restoration orders which they have ignored,\u201d said Mr Mamo on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also gave Maseno University seven days to comply with restoration orders stopping them from discharging raw sewer into nearby rivers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The institution has also been ordered to construct effluent treatment plant failure to which the institution will be shut down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The agency also ordered Kisumu Maximum Prison Kodiaga to stop emitting raw sewage into River Saka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.nation.co.ke\/news\/Nema-withdraws-Agro-Chemicals-licence\/1950946-5379422-4rbk3rz\/index.html\">Read more&#8230; <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rushdie Oudia National Environment Management Authority (Nema) has withdrawn the effluent discharge licence of Kisumu-based Agro-Chemicals and Food Company over non-compliance. The company has been accused of releasing raw&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}