Over 300 Arrested for Violating Kwara's Monthly Sanitation Laws
According to the information from Punch, no fewer than 300 individuals were arrested and prosecuted by a special court for violating sanitation laws in Kwara State during the monthly sanitation exercise held on Saturday.
The monthly sanitation, which runs for three hours between 7 a.m. and 10 a.m. on the last Saturday of each month, saw offenders apprehended in Ilorin, the state capital.
Despite the arrests, the state government praised residents for the successful completion of the sanitation exercise in various towns and villages within and outside the state capital.
A statement by the Press Secretary in the Ministry of Environment, Kamaldeen Aliagan, indicated that the Commissioner for Environment, Hajia Nafisat Musa-Buge, gave the commendation while answering questions from journalists at Checkpoint, along the Ilorin-Ogbomoso Expressway shortly after the completion of the exercise.
“Let me use this medium to express our delight with an increase in the level of compliance, by the good people of Kwara State, towards the successful exercise, most especially, the metropolis. I urge you all to sustain the tempo.”
The commissioner who was represented by the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Alhaji Abubakar Ayinla, during the inspection of the exercise, however, expressed disappointment that despite government's enlightenment and campaign programmes, some people still flouted the sanitation laws in the state.
She said, “Despite the enlightenment programme and campaigns on radio and other electronic media, it is sad and unfortunate that almost 300 sanitation offenders were apprehended within the metropolis and subsequently charged to various mobile courts, during the exercise.”
The commissioner however implored the people of the state to strictly adhere to the three-hour sanitation schedule for cleaning their residential and business environment to sustain a clean and safe environment.
Musa-Buge also appreciated the mobile court judges, monitoring and security agents, transport unions and relevant bodies for their steadfastness in the discharge of their duties.
Cloud Tag: What's trending
Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.
Lai Mohammed Shaaba Lafiagi Mohammed Lawal Bagega Pius Abioje Olatunji Abdulmumeen Government Girls’ Day Secondary School Pakata Alanamu Saheed Akinwumi Saba Jibril Yusuf Badmus Ilorin Muslim Community Maimunat Oloriegbe Kwara South Talaka Parapo Gobirawa Waheed Ibrahim Rashidi Yekini Oke-Odo Jelili Yusuf Christopher Odetunde SSUCOEN Aso Ofi Aliyu Salihu Ashiru Sam Onile Bola Sagaya CCEPE Kwara Poly Rabiu Kwankwaso Henry Makinwa Zaratu Umar Shuaibu Yaman Offa Grammer School Igosun Mutawali Abdulkadir Akanbi-Oke Yahaya Dumoye Kwara Volleyball Association Tunji Folami Shehu Raheem Adaramaja Durosinlohun Kawu IYA ALFA NLA Nigerian Army Apado Omoniyi M. Ayinla Offa Poly Saka Aleshinloye NSCIA Tosho Yaqub Flights To Ilorin Segun Abifarin Ilorin Descendants Progressive Union Azeez Bello Bukola Ajikobi Obasanjo Ubandoma Of Ilorin Laduba KWSIEC Madawaki Of Ilorin Ibrahim Mashood M.Y. Abdulrahaman CBT Abubakar Baba NFAI Mahee Abdulkadir Mohammed Ghali Alaaya Chief Imam Of Ilorin Forgo Battery Tunde Yusuf Ayinde Oyepitan Peter Amogbonjaye Seed Technologies Yahaya Seriki Rebecca Olanrewaju Jebba Bureau Of Lands Memunat Monsuma

