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.

Abdulquowiyu Olododo     Adamu B. Yaqubu     Shao     Abdulrauf Yusuf     AbdulKareem Yusuf Danhawa     Yusuf Abdulraheem     Aliyu Umar     Rebecca Bake     Usman Yunusa     Kayode Ishola     Ndakene     Arik     George Innih     Toyin Olayinka Tejidini     Lasiele Alabi Yahaya     Amusement Park     Jamiu Oyawoye     Grillo     Unilorin FM     JAAC     Nigerian Supreme Council For Islamic Affairs     Gobir Organization Foundation     Mohammed Ghali Alaaya     Olufolake Abdulrazaq     Isin     KWASAA     AIT Ilorin     Saadu Yusuf     Adeleke Ogungbe     Col. Taiwo     SWAN     Sulyman Abdulkareem     Col. Ibrahim Taiwo     Lai Mohammed     Aliyu Muhammad Saifudeen     Victor Gbenga Yusuf     Mohammed Halidu     Joana Nnazua Kolo     Bola Olukoju     Sulyman Buhari     Laolu Saraki     Dele Momodu     Oyedepo     Raymond Olaitan     Sanusi Abubakar     Abdulrazaq Adebayo     KwaraLearn     National Information Technology Development Agency     Muazam Nayaya     Funmilayo Braithwaite     Saliu Ajia     Abraysports FC     Oba Abdulraheem     Oye Tinuoye     Abdullahi Saadudeen Alikinla     Mukhtar Shagaya     Yusuf A. Usman     Ibrahim Agboola Gambari     KSIRS     Ahmad Fatima Bisola     Wasiu Odewale     Ilorin General Hospital     Alaiye     Ajakaye     ASUU     Charcoal     Ilota     Kawu Baraje     Alanamu     Royal FM     GAMA     Bola Sagaya     Sheriff Olanrewaju     Gbadeyan Gbadura Yomi     Oke-Ogun     Principal Private Secretary     Kwara State Television (KWTV)    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Sheikh Ridhwanullah     Ballah     Dan Iya Of Ilorin     Abdulkadir Bolakale Sakariyah     Taofik Abiodun Ahmed     Kwara State Infrastructure Development Fund     Kale Bayero     Abdulsalam A. Yusuf     Maryam Ado Bayero     Turaki     Abdulazeez Arowona     Ogbondoroko     Ajia-Bako     New Model Police Station     MMWG     Lanre Aremu     Maja     Doyin Agbamu     Bukola Saraki     Ilorin.Info     Erubu     Christopher Odetunde     Grillo     A.E. Afolabi     Abdulhakeem Adelaja Amao     Kayode Issa     Jimoh Saadudeen Muhammed     Adisa Logun     Abdullahi Imam Abdullahi     Mogaji Aare     Plat Technologies     Dunmade     Hakeem Idris     Femi Agbaje     Muyideen Ajani Bello     Yusuf Zulu-Gambari     Oba-Solagberu     Seni Saraki     Rex Olawoye     Kunle Suleiman     Oyin-Zubair     Kwara NIPR     MAI Akande     Kwarareports     Al-Hikmah Radio     ER-KANG Mining     Mahmud Babatunde Baker     Akorede     ITP     Ibrahim Gambari     CUTI     Wahab Kunle Shittu     Smart School     Government High School Adeta     CT Ayeni     Niyi Osundare     Afolabi-Oshatimehin Adenike Harriet     SDP     Air Peace     Umar Ayinla Saro     Ajikobi     Nurudeen Muhammed     Mopelola Abdulmaliq-Bashir     Afolayan     Borgu     Kwara State Printing And Publishing Corporation     Dasuki Belgore     Ahmed Bayero     Taofeek Ibraheem     Tunji Oyawoye     20 Billion Bond     Kishira     Dauda Adesola     Gbenga Awoyale     Hassanat Bello     Kwara TV     Harafat E. Mukadam