200 Environmental Law Offenders Arrested, Prosecuted In Kwara

No fewer than 200 residents of Ilorin, Kwara State, were arrested on Saturday for violating the state environmental law during the monthly environmental sanitation exercise.

The environmental law offenders were tried and convicted by mobile courts stationed at strategic locations in the Ilorin metropolis.

The state commissioner for environment, Hajia Nafisat Musa-Buge, frowned at the attitude of motor park operators in Ilorin during the environmental sanitation exercise.

Musa-Buge, speaking through the permanent secretary of her ministry, D Abubakar Ayinla, warned the motor park operators to desist from sabotaging the environmental law.

She warned that “henceforth, the ministry will no longer tolerate anyone, especially commercial transporters, who often flout environmental laws, during the monthly sanitation exercise in the state.”

Musa-Buge, however, commended security agencies and various voluntary organisations for their support in ensuring a smooth sanitation exercise.

She lamented, “Despite public awareness of the monthly sanitation exercise, about 200 environmental offenders were apprehended and charged to various mobile courts during the exercise held across the local government areas of the state.”