The mobile court attached to Kano State central Task Force Committee on sanitation has shut down YoungXing Steel Company and fined the management of the company the sum N5 million for violating environmental sanitations exercise order.
The court has found the company guilty of operating during the Environmental Sanitation period, which is a strict violation of the Kano State Environmental Sanitation Act.
Presiding magistrate, Auwalu Yusuf Suleiman, ordered the closure of the company and the management to pay the sum of five million naira as fine.
Reacting to the development, the chairman of the committee who doubled as state commissioner for environment, Dr Kabiru Ibrahim Getso, said the action of the company is disheartening, urging other business premises to desist from violating sanitation exercise.
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He warned that anybody found wanting for violating the sanitation exercise will be sanctioned appropriately.
Similarly, the committee fined one filling station at Western Bypass, MAM Oil and Gas the sum N500,000 for operating during the exercise.
MAM Oil was said to be found operating during hours of the Saturday’s environmental sanitation exercise which is against the policy set aside by the state government in ensuring a clean environment.
Dr Getso said the exercise is recording a lot of success as people in Kano contribute immensely by staying at home and cleaning their premises and drainage.
During the exercise, the court arrested 58 defaulters and fined them the sum of 5,587,000.
