A mobile court in Furgar, Etsako
Central Local Government Area of Edo, yesterday (Saturday), convicted ten persons for not
participating in the environmental sanitation exercise.
The presiding judge, Lawrence
Wilson, found the accused guilty of the offence and ordered that they should
either pay a five thousand naira fine each or be imprisoned.
He ruled that the convicts must pay
the fine within seven days or be sent to prison.
Earlier, the prosecutor, Uyigue
Iyobo, told the court that the offenders were found loitering during
the sanitation exercise.
Mr Iyobor, who is the Head of the
Sanitation Office of Etsako Local Government Council, urged the court punish
the culprits so as to serve as deterrent to others.
He said that their offence contravened Section
12, Sub-section 2 of the Edo State Sanitation Law of 1976.
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