You have read the lesson 'A Tale of Three villages'. In that lesson, you read about Koko village
Nigeria. Many large empty drums were placed outside Mr. Nana's house. After three months one of
the brightest boys in the village, Thomas Agonyo, who was a University student came home on
weekend with a new chemistry book. He spent all day looking at the drums and talking to himsejl
and shaking his head.
Imagine that you were the journalist who visited the Three Villages. Now describe your feelings,
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Poverty is the reason people have been lured into accepting substances that otherwise they would not have." This poverty is encouraging waste exports to Africa. In some cases the fees for trade in the hazardous wastes "rivals the African nations' annual gross national product." One exemplary case took place in Koko, Nigeria in 1987 between Italian and Nigerian businessmen.

Italy produces between "40 and 50 million tons of industrial wastes and 16 million tons of household wastes each year," most of which is believed to be exported to developing countries for disposal. In 1987, Italian businessmen Gianfranco Raffaeli and Renato Pent, of the waste broker firms Ecomar and Jelly Wax respectively, signed an illegal agreement with Nigerian businessman, Sunday Nana, to use his property for storage of 18,000 drums of hazardous waste for approximately $100 a month.
"They came on a Wednesday," said Sunday, "Many, many big lorries. They took all day unloading them. No-one told us what was in them. They gave the Chief a brown paper bag-I saw him smiling as the lorries drove away. This was five years ago. Then three months ago, one of the brightest boys in the village - Thomas Agonyo - started university in Lagos.He came home one weekend with a new Chemistry book, and spent all day looking at the drums and writing things down and talking to himself and shaking his head. We all thought he had gone mad. Then he called a meeting of the village and told us that the drums contained poisonous chemicals. He said they had come from Italy. But I don't know where that is. Is it in Europe?
Mr. Sunday Nana stopped, frowning, a troubled look on his face, "In the last five years, 13 people have died in this village, my own elder brother one of them. They have been in pain, terrible pain. We have never seen deaths like that before. Lots of our children are sick. We have asked the Government to take the drums away,
but they do nothing. We have written to Italy, but they do nothing. The Chief says we should move our houses to another place. But we have no money to buy land. We have no choice. We have to stay here. And they"---- pointing to the mountain of death in the clearing - "are our neighbours."
Explanation:
This was five years ago...what does "this" refer to ?