compost content in soil [54]. This observation may be explained bythe influence of compost on soil properties such as organic matterand pH [20]. These factors could affect metals solubility, mobilityand bioavailability in soil [55].Bioaccumulation factor values of metals in Kenaf plant were gen-erally less than 1.0 indicating low metal uptake, and hence lowenvironmental risks. The BF values of metals in Kenaf plant werelow despite compost amendment. However, the plant was able toeffectively remediate appreciable amounts of metals to establishits phytoremediation ability. The use of Kenaf plant for phytoreme-diation has been described in literature [56,57].In the phytoremediation study conducted by Shrivastava [58],Brassica juncea was used to bioremediate Cd and Ni in industrialand urban polluted soils in Bhopa, India. High BF values of 10.5 and1.3 were observed indicating high removal of metal by the plantused for phytoremediation.