No fewer than 42 people have been prosecuted by the Environmental Sanitation Mobile Court for violating the monthly environmental sanitation exercise law in Nasarawa State.
Chief Prosecutor of the court, Alhaji Abubakar Mohammed, said the offenders were arrested at various locations in Lafia engaging in their private businesses during the hours of the environmental sanitation in the state capital.
The prosecutor, who is also the Chief Environment Officer in the state Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources said, “The suspects were prosecuted in line with the provision of Section 9, subsection two of the Nasarawa State Environmental Sanitation Law.
“The offenders were convicted and sentenced to between two and four months imprisonment with option of fine.”
The acting Permanent Secretary, Nasarawa State Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, Mr Jonathan Kwaghkaha, described the level of compliance with the monthly environmental sanitation as impressive.
According to him, “The state government had strengthened the capacity of the environmental inspectors and deployed them to areas that were not previously covered during the exercise to ensure compliance.
” I am calling on residents of the state to always keep their environments clean as part of measures to avert the outbreak of the second wave of the COVID-19 and other diseases,” he said.
