By Editor
The Ogun State Waste Management Authority, OGWAMA has arrested 45 residents for contravening the law and sentenced them to community services.
The arrest is part of the government’s continued efforts at enforcing the State Environmental Laws which forbids indiscriminate waste disposal.
They were arrested today in Panseke, Quarry Road and Kolobo areas of the state capital after dumping their waste indiscriminately on the roadsides, highways and other public places.
Addressing them before their community services,the Special Adviser to the Governor on OGWAMA,Hon Farook Akintunde outlined the implications of their offence to them which include defacing the aesthetic beauty of the state capital, spreading diseases especially airborne diseases through their indiscriminate dumping of waste which has health implications.
Akintunde noted that their actions can also contaminate the underground water of the city which is injurious to other residents of the state.
He therefore expressed disappointment with their behavior which he said is unpardonable especially with massive campaign mounted against indiscriminate dumping of waste in various media outlets and the need to patronize government licenced Waste Collectors assigned to their communities.
Akintunde said due to their pleas and written commitment not to run foul of the law again as well as their immediate enrollment with the Waste Collectors in their areas,they will be allowed to do community services.
He warned that any one of them caught again for the same offence will be prosecuted according to the state environmental laws and warned other residents of the state still in the habit of dumping their waste indiscriminately to stop forthwith or await the unpleasant consequences in not too distant time.
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