Indiscriminate waste disposal: Court sentences Ogun residents to community service

An Ogun State Magistrate Court sitting successful Isabo, Abeokuta, has sentenced 8 offenders to assemblage work for indiscriminate discarded disposal.

The suspects, six females and 2 males, were caught betwixt the hours of 6:15 to 8:05 a.m on Friday, dumping discarded connected nationalist roads astatine Isale- Igbein, Car-Wash and Abiola Way successful the Abeokuta Magisterial District.

Prosecuting the suspects connected a 2 number charge, Sanitarian Kehinde Ogunsola, Medical Officer of Health of the Ogun State Waste Management Authority, OGWAMA, said the discarded emitted violative odour that attracted flies which are liable to dispersed cholera.

According to Ogunsola, indiscriminate dumping is unsafe to the wellness and causes flooding which affects beingness and property, adding that the discourtesy contravenes the Public Health Law of Ogun State, 2006, and Section 34(1) of the Ogun State Waste Management Authority Law, 2020.

Delivering his judgment, Justice A.K Araba recovered the 8 offenders – Oyebanjo Abidemi, Aminat Adewusi, Aminat Olarewaju, Omolana  Olusola, Abiola Moridiya, Olaogun Mary, Abiodun Aromoku...