… says defaulters risk prosecution
The Kwara State Government has given a three-month ultimatum to landlords in the state to provide toilet facilities in their homes.
The government said that the people have between now and July to provide toilets in their houses or face prosecution.
Speaking with journalists in Ilorin on Tuesday on the sidelines of donation of refuse bins in strategic locations of the state capital by the Rotary Club, Ilorin Metro, a director in the state Ministry of Environment, Gabriel Towoju, said on expiration of the deadline, “officers of the ministry will embark on inspection of households in the state to arrest defaulters.”
Towoju also charged residents of the state to desist from indiscriminate dumping of refuse in drainage channels, saying that the habit constituted health hazard and environmental degradation.
For his part, the President, Rotary Club Ilorin Metro, Yousef Sanders, said that the donation of refuse bins was part of activities to mark Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) project of the club, adding, “We are trying to let people see why their environment should be clean, so they can be free from airborne diseases which is rampant these days.a health hazard and environmental degradation