No fewer than 70 landlords have been
arrested in the last two months for
defaulting in providing toilets facilities in
their houses in Ekiti.
The Director of Environment and
Sanitation, Mr Tunde Balogun, made this
known in an interview with the News
Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ado-Ekiti on
Friday.
Balogun described the landlords as
"recalcitrant residents'', who always test
the will of government when issues
relating to policies and programmes
come to question.
He said that the affected land lords
would be prosecuted under the Ekiti
State Environmental and Sanitation
Law, 2004 and the Environmental
Regulations 2009, as amended.
He recalled that this year, the state
Ministry of Environment organised an
awareness campaigns on the need for the
landlords to abide by government's
policy of "One House, One Toilet''.
"Those landlords, who were arrested,
turned deaf ears to the government's
order, thinking they can ignore an
important policy such as this and get
away with it,'' he said.
The director, who said the exercise would
be continuous one, declared that all
offenders would face the wrath of the
law.
"There is nobody in Ekiti, who will say he
is not aware of various existing
Environmental laws that are passed by
the House of Assembly and assented to
by Gov. Kayode Fayemi.
"They think we are not serious about
this, and so, they must pay dearly for
this until they learn to comply.'' (NAN)
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arrested in the last two months for
defaulting in providing toilets facilities in
their houses in Ekiti.
The Director of Environment and
Sanitation, Mr Tunde Balogun, made this
known in an interview with the News
Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ado-Ekiti on
Friday.
Balogun described the landlords as
"recalcitrant residents'', who always test
the will of government when issues
relating to policies and programmes
come to question.
He said that the affected land lords
would be prosecuted under the Ekiti
State Environmental and Sanitation
Law, 2004 and the Environmental
Regulations 2009, as amended.
He recalled that this year, the state
Ministry of Environment organised an
awareness campaigns on the need for the
landlords to abide by government's
policy of "One House, One Toilet''.
"Those landlords, who were arrested,
turned deaf ears to the government's
order, thinking they can ignore an
important policy such as this and get
away with it,'' he said.
The director, who said the exercise would
be continuous one, declared that all
offenders would face the wrath of the
law.
"There is nobody in Ekiti, who will say he
is not aware of various existing
Environmental laws that are passed by
the House of Assembly and assented to
by Gov. Kayode Fayemi.
"They think we are not serious about
this, and so, they must pay dearly for
this until they learn to comply.'' (NAN)
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