About 22 persons have been apprehended and sentenced to four months imprisonment for allegedly
violating environmental sanitation laws in Lafia, Nasarawa State.
Parading the suspects on Sunday, the chief environmentalist who is also the prosecutor officer, Mr Abubakar Mohammed, informed the court that the suspects were arrested because they neglected the sanitation exercise and were going about their business in the state.
According to him, the offences violated Section 9 (2), of the state Environmental Sanitation Law.
Mohammed added that the court had no option than to sanction them accordingly to serve as a deterrent to violators in the state.
He maintained that the Judge, Mr Shittu Umar, convicted and sentenced them to between two and four months imprisonment respectively.
Meanwhile, the state government said it would not hesitate to adopt stringent measures to enforce the state Environmental Sanitation Laws considering rising cases of flooding in some parts of the state.
The state Commissioner for Environment and Natural Resources, Mr Musa Ibrahim, spoke with Sunday PUNCH shortly after monitoring the exercise in the state.
According to him, most environmental disasters across the state are attributed to human factors, particularly building on waterways, indiscriminate dumping of refuse and other activities posing a great danger to the environment.
He, therefore, urged citizens of the state to make the cleanliness of their surroundings a priority, adding that the state government would continue to strengthen the environmental mobile courts to prosecute offenders.
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