108 Ogun residents arrested, prosecuted for indiscriminate waste disposal

The Ogun State Waste Management Authority, OGWAMA, has arrested and prosecuted 108 residents successful Abeokuta for the indiscriminate dumping of discarded products.

The offenders were apprehended portion dumping garbage connected roadsides, nationalist places and connected medians, successful antithetic parts of the authorities capital.

Recall that DAILY POST had reported the piles of trash sitting connected large roads and blocking the gutters.

However, the OGWAMA enforcement squad arrested the offenders portion they were dumping the refuse, an offence against the state’s discarded absorption law.

Speaking connected the apprehension connected Wednesday, the Special Adviser to the Governor connected OGWAMA, Farook Akintunde, said the discarded offenders person been prosecuted successful antithetic customary courts successful the authorities superior and fined to service arsenic a deterrent to others.

He lamented that contempt authorities efforts astatine picking up discarded from residents’ doorsteps, they are inactive successful the wont of dumping discarded successful inappropriate places, thereby defacing the aesthetic quality of the situation and the authorities capital.

Akintunde said, “Its conscionable unfortunate that we person to spell this way to halt immoderate of our radical from dumping discarded indiscriminately connected roadsides and successful nationalist places. We person sensitized, appealed and adjacent encouraged them to handover their discarded to Waste PSP assigned to their areas for due discarded disposal but to nary avail.

“We are dete...