45-Year-Old Jailed For Illegal Dumping Of Waste In Lagos
A Magistrate Court sitting in Bolade, Oshodi, Lagos, has sentenced a 45-year-old man, Mr. Ime Bassey, to three weeks’ imprisonment for illegally dumping waste along the Ikorodu Road median near Ketu bus stop.
According to the Lagos State Ministry of Environment and Water Resources, Bassey was apprehended by the monitoring team of the Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) in the early hours of Tuesday and brought before the court the same day.
Upon arraignment, he pleaded guilty to the environmental offense and was promptly convicted and sentenced.
Bassey’s conviction comes a day after 13 individuals arrested in the early hours of Monday were arraigned and subsequently sentenced to three months imprisonment each for engaging in open defecation and urination at Agege and Alimosho areas.
In a related incident, 43-year-old Mr. Paul Agwu was also arrested after being caught in the act of dumping refuse into a canal in the Oshodi area.
He was arraigned before the same court but pleaded not guilty to the charge.
The magistrate ordered that he be remanded in correctional custody until July 8, when his trial is set to begin.
45-Year-Old Jailed For Illegal Dumping Of Waste In Lagos is first published on The Whistler Newspaper
