More than 400 individuals in Kwara State have been found guilty and penalized by the Environmental cleanliness Task Force for violating the state's cleanliness laws.
While answering questions from reporters during Saturday's three-hour statewide environmental sanitation exercise, Hajia Nafisat Musa Buge, the state's commissioner for environment, revealed this.
“The exercise was successful since there is an improvement in the level of compliance," the commissioner who led the task team stated.
For the sake of the people, she demanded stricter compliance with environmental regulations.
According to Buge, the criminals were taken into custody and brought before 17 mobile tribunals that were placed in strategic locations around the city.
Because the ministry sufficiently sensitized the public through radio, newspapers, and the internet, none of the violators can claim ignorance about today's sanitation exercise. This is the positive element. They obviously disobeyed the law on purpose and now they're paying the price.
She is optimistic that the sanctions imposed on the violators during the monitoring exercise would discourage similar behavior in future exercises.
The commissioner reiterated that the additional time is "in line with the state Environmental Sanitation Law of Section 29 (2) CAP E4 of 2006," which states that the sanitation hour is from 7 am to 10 am, when discussing the extension of time.
The complete elimination of careless waste disposal and the prevention of disease outbreaks, she added, necessitate this action.
She went on to say that the state's laws should take the sanitation exercise seriously.
To make sure that everyone in Kwara, including potential investors, lives in a clean, safe, and healthy environment, she pleaded with the public to keep helping the government and its agencies.
