Sanitation: Kwara govt apprehends, fines 400 offenders
No fewer than 400 sanitation offenders have been convicted and fined by the Kwara State Environmental Sanitation Task Force for violating the law during monthly sanitation exercises.
Hajia Nafisat Musa Buge, the State Commissioner for Environment, while disclosing this when fielding questions from Journalists after the environmental Sanitation exercise observed across the state over the weekend, said the decision was in a bid to enforce sanitation law in the state continually.
According to her, “the offenders were apprehended and charged to seventeen (17) mobile courts that were strategically positioned across the metropolis.”
“The good aspect is that none of the offenders can feign ignorance of today’s sanitation exercise, as enough sensitization was carried out by the ministry on radio, newspapers and online. It is obvious they willfully flouted the laws and so made to face the full wrath of law, to serve as a deterrent to others,” she added.
The Commissioner, however, noted that the exercise was a successful one, adding that there was an improvement in the level of compliance.
She, therefore, called for more adherence to the environmental laws, saying it is in the people’s best interest.
Speaking on the extension of time, the Commissioner re-emphasised it is that it was in line with the state Environmental Sanitation law of Section 29 (2) CAP E4 of 2006, which stipulates that the hours of sanitation are from seven o’clock to ten o’clock (7: 00 am – 10 am) in the morning, saying the move was necessary to ensure total eradication of indiscriminate dumping of refuse and forestall the outbreak of diseases.
Commending members of the Guild of Yoruba Media Practitioners for their community service in the Gaa Akanbi area, the Commissioner urged them to keep it up, calling on other groups and associations to emulate the good gesture of the association for better healthy living.
She, therefore, appealed to the public to continue to cooperate with the Government and its agencies in its efforts to ensure a clean, safe and healthier Kwara for residents and would-be investors.
