Peter S. Goodman
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 10 Jun
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So one of the things that we were focused on was this comparison with the worst lead disaster at a battery manufacturer in Southern California more than a decade ago, which was a federal emergency.
I mean, the feds went in, they shut the place down, they tested people, they took over, they're still managing this.
And there was a soil test conducted at a preschool there that found 95 parts per million lead.
Let me give you that number again.
95 parts per million.
We tested a school in Ogejo where we found 1,900 parts per million.
Yeah.
Well, first of all, you're talking about irreversible brain damage, especially for children.
You're talking about respiratory problems, relentless headaches, exhaustion, just a lack of functioning.
And that's the lead, right?
And then there's just the reality of you're living in a place where there's smoke and terrible fumes all the time and people are coughing.
It's just a living nightmare.
After we did the testing, our research partner shared some of this data with the Nigerian government, the environmental authorities.
And within just a few days, the five worst smelters in Ogijo were shut down.
The heads of these companies were summoned up to Abuja, the capital of Nigeria, to have a conversation around how they could supposedly make some improvements.
And then they were given permission to
to restart.
Well, you know, it's complicated.
So the Nigerian government has been receiving reports of these health problems going back at least to 2018.
And they got what they described to me as promises to make all of these improvements at these plants.
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