Twenty eight (28) people were charged to court in Ado Ekiti for open
defecation and indiscriminate dumping of wastes in the state.
Two of the suspects who were underage were, however, discharged and
acquitted while the other twenty-six (26) were convicted and sentenced
to fines ranging from two thousand to four thousand naira.
Magistrate Modupe Afeniforo who presided over the mobile court
expressed hope that the development would serve as deterrence to people
in the habit of dumping waste indiscriminately in the state.
Reacting to the development, the state commissioner for Environment,
Chief Bisi Kolawole said that the state would continue to implement the
state Environmental and Sanitation laws to the letter as part of efforts
at eradicating open defecation and indiscriminate dumping of refuse in
the state.
Warning that government was set to commence a continuous house to
house monitoring exercise towards ensuring compliance with the policy of
having at least a toilet in every house in the state, the commissioner
stressed that no excuse would be tolerated as culprits would be made to
face the full wrath of the law.