it was, therefore, identified that the country was sitting on a time-bomb as mercury continued to be used indiscriminately in the mining sector leading to pollution in the environment, soil and water bodies.
Stakeholders including officials from the Environment Protection Agency, Food and Drugs Board, environmental non-governmental organisations and environmental experts, identified that the dangerous chemical got into the blood stream of people when they consumed contaminated fish, vegetables such as cabbage grown with mercury polluted water and also when they breathed in the toxic waste from fumes of burnt e-waste.
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