Courts convict 116 offenders in Kwara

Date: 2016-10-30

One hundred and sixteen people were convicted for various sanitation offences by Mobile Courts, during the October month end sanitation in Ilorin, Kwara.

The News Agency of Nigeria correspondent reports that the convicts were arrested and prosecuted for driving and loitering about among other offences, during the monthly sanitation contrary to the Sanitation Laws of the state.

NAN also reports that there was improvement in compliance as against the last exercise.

This might be reason for the reduction in number of convicted offenders from 150 in September to 116 in October.

They were convicted and sentenced to pay fines by Mobile Courts situated at strategic locations in Ilorin. Speaking with reporters shortly after the exercise, the State Commissioner for Environment and Forestry, Otunba Taiwo Joseph, commended the people for their compliance.

He said that the present administration is totally committed to environmental cleanliness of the state.

The commissioner explained that with a clean & conducive environment, visitation to clinics and hospitals by citizens would be reduced drastically.

Joseph said that the conviction and sentence of offenders would serve as deterrence to other would be defaulters in future.

"We must keep our environment clean. It is a law and we must abide by it. There is no excuse for non-compliance with the sanitation law," he said.

He also commended the active participation of the youth in the exercise by cleaning their environment and also serving as sanitation enforcers through voluntary organisations like Man 'O' War, Red Cross, Sheriff Guide among others.

In a related development, two hundred and forty-five persons were convicted by two separate Mobile Courts in Benin for violation of the state's Sanitation and Pollution Management Law No 5 of 2010.

Mr Samson Erhaze, Senior State Counsel, Edo ministry of Justice and Mr Plus Oiwoh, Head of Legal Services, Edo Ministry of Environment, gave these statistics to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Benin.

The counsels said while some of the offenders were convicted for violation of sanitation, others were convicted for wandering and obstructing sanitation officials from discharging their duties.

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Zulu Gambari     Maimunat Oloriegbe     Twitter     Savannah Centre For Diplomacy, Democracy And Development     Kamaldeen Ajibade     Lithium     Solomon Edojah     Association Of Kwara State Online Media Practitioners     Nigeria Foundation For Artificial Intelligence     Mohammed Alabi Lawal     Olanrewju Okanlawon Musa     Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq     Toun Okewale-Sonaiya     Ganmo Power Sub-Station     Alaiye     Alikinla     Funke Adedoyin     Abdulkadir Orire     Kannike     Abubakar Suleiman     Umaru Saro     LEAH Charity Foundation     Oye Tinuoye     Moremi High School     Prince Mahe Abdulkadir     Ilorin Durbar     Olukotun Of Ikotun     Kwara University Of Education     Saad Belgore     Bamidele Aluko     Fatimat Saliu     Convocation Ceremonies     Adaramaja     Kwara State Television     Apaola     Maigida Soludero Transit     Sarafadeen Kayode Akorede     Forgo Battery Company Limited     Kwara State Governor     Ilorin     Sidikat Alaya     Toyin Abdullahi     FOMWAN     JSSCE     Muhammadu Buhari     Kwara State Fish Farmers Association     Lanre Jimoh     Adeola Abraham     Isiaka Oniwa     Ilorin East     Shade Omoniyi     Harrison Osauwagboe     2017 Budget     Al-Ilory     Issa Manzuma     Afolabi-Oshatimehin Adenike Harriet     Tafida Of Ilorin     AGF Abdulrazaq     SDP     Centre For Community Empowerment And Poverty Eradication     Pakata Development Association     Ibrahim Issa Jetti     Kwara United     General Hospital, Ilorin     Aliyu Kora-Sabi     School Of Nursing     Alore     Iyiola Oyedepo     Seun Bolaji     Rotimi Samuel Olujide     Timothy Olatunde Fadipe     Ope Saraki     Kwara State University Of Education     Tafida Of Kaiama     John Obuh     Alfa Modibo Belgore     Baaziki Sulaiman    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Mohammed Jimoh Faworaja     Tosho Yaqub     Tunji Olawuyi     Offa Metropolitan Club     MMWG     Razaq Ayobami Akanbi     Yusuf Abdulkadir     Usman Rifun     Dankaka     Monsurat Omotosho     Kwara Coalition Of Business And Professional Associations     Doyin Awoyale     Ahman Pategi University     Salake     Kwara Restoration Project     Lanre Issa Onilu     Oba Sulaiman Asude     Joseph Yemi Ajayi     Rasaq Jimoh     Dapo Teni Nig Enterprise     Isiaka Abdulrazak     Alaaya     Suleiman Ajadi     Admiralty Villa     Kulende     Shuaibu Yaman     Association Of Kwara State Online Media Practitioners     Sabi     Fareedah Dankaka     Yeketi     Ishola Moses Abiodun     Salaudeen Oyewale     Abdullahi AbdulMajeed     Alabe     Hikmah AbdulKareem     Kpotum Mohammed Baba     Baba Isale     Standard Organization Of Nigeria     Elelu     Olosi Of Osi     Madawaki Of Ilorin     Otunba Taiwo Joseph     Ilorin Innovation Hub     Olomu     Jimoh Saadudeen Muhammed     Nigeria Computer Society     Abdulrazak Shehu Akorede     Odogun Olushola Gabriel     Y.A. Abdulkareem     Femi Oladiji     SARS     Ishola Balogun Fulani     Bola Ahmed Tinubu     Rex Olawoye     Jumoke F. Ajao     TESCOM 2025     Gani Saadu     Bilikisu Gambari     Zaratu Umar     Young Progressives Party     Balogun Ajikobi     Kwara North     Abdulkadir Jimoh     Abdullahi G. Mohammad     Rotimi Atere     Moshood Mustapha     Bursary     Mohammed Tunde-Jimoh     Kayode Ibrahim     Kolawole Akande     Pakata Development Association     Issa Manzuma     Akande Idowu Ayoola Muhammed     Kwarareports.com     Okoolowo     Salami Adekunle     Akume