The Environmental Sanitation Court in Kwara State has prosecuted and fined 135 people for violating the monthly sanitation exercise in Ilorin, the state capital.
The indication was given in a statement by Taiwo Okanlawon, the Public Relations Officer, Ministry of Environment.
Okanlawon was quoted in the statement as saying that the violators were fined for various sanitation infractions by the Mobile Court in the state.
It stated that some of the offenders were arrested during the Environmental Sanitation exercise, on Saturday.
According to it, the violators were fined at the Post Office, Maraba, Oloje, Offa-Garage, and other areas in Ilorin.
“The Commissioner for Environment and Forestry, Remilekun Banigbe, said that the offenders were caught in some unauthorised areas and found guilty of violating the Environmental Sanitation and Waste Management Laws.
“Banigbe said that the state government will no longer tolerate indiscriminate dumping of refuse in wrong places.
“She urged the people of the state to ensure regular cleaning of their environment to avert outbreak of disease,” the statement read.
It reported that since the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the Mobile Court stopped its operations during monthly sanitation exercises because of the lockdown.
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