The Kano State Government has fined three tanneries N500,000 each for careless discharge of industrial wastes.
The Chief Executive Officers of the companies have also been summoned to a meeting with government officials.
The state Commissioner for the Environment, Alhaji Abdullahi Abbas, made this known in a statement on Saturday in Kano.
The commissioner, who is also the Chairman of the state Taskforce Committee on Sanitation, said that the body found the three companies culpable inspite of several warnings.
“The three companies, Unique Leather at Sharada Industrial Area as well as Mahaza and Mamuda tannery at Challawa Industrial Area were fined by the mobile court operating under the sanitation committee,” he said.
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