Environmental Impacts of Hora Tannery Industry and Human Right Abuse in Oromia Regional state: The Case of Modjo Town Administration Downstream Villagers.

Abstract

The leather Industry is one of the industries which have effect on the Environment if it is not managed properly. This research paper assessed the environmental impacts of Hora tannery Industry and human right abuse to the downstream villagers of Modjo Town administration. Because of The Tannery is not complying adequately with the constitution and environmental policy of Ethiopia. As a result the study uses primary and secondary data sources. The sampling used in this study was purposive sampling of population affected by the pollution of water to the downstream settled villagers. Accordingly the data collected was analysed by using both quantitative and qualitative data analysis particular descriptive types of analysis which was used in the study are percentage and tables. There is an implementation gap between Hora tannery and FDRE constitution that abuse citizen’s right of article 43, 44, 91 and, 92, according to the findings of this case study. The tannery has primary and secondary treatment plant but it had not been operated based on the standards of WHO, FAO and EPA. The main challenges for the Tannery not conduct environmental standards and regulations adequately are, to run the ETP too expensive financially, lack of educated person on ETP operation and maintenance capacity, weak inspection capacity by environmental authorities, Insufficient electricity and power interruption are the main binding challenges. This research recommends that conducting frequent inspection and feedback by environmental authorities, allocate budget to run ETP, educating ample of people in this fields, improving power of electricity finally taking procedural administrative action.