Court Jails Eight For Open Defecation, Urination In Lagos

A Magistrate Court sitting in Bolade, Oshodi, has sentenced eight individuals to one month imprisonment for engaging in open defecation and urination in Lagos.

The offenders were arraigned before Magistrate Oshikoya of the Special Offences (Mobile Court) on Friday, where they all pleaded guilty to the charges.

According to a statement by the Lagos State Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources, the convicted individuals, aged between 18 and 45, were sentenced to serve as a deterrent to others who may contemplate similar environmental violations.

The conviction follows an earlier case on June 26, when officials of the Lagos Environmental Sanitation Corps (LAGESC), also known as KAI, arrested and arraigned eight individuals for public urination and breach of peace in the Yaba area.

The Corps Marshal of LAGESC, Major Olaniyi Cole (rtd), said the suspects were charged before Magistrate Oshikoya for offences punishable under Section 168 (1)(d) of the Lagos State Criminal Law, 2015, and Section 5(1) of the Public Health Law, 2015.

He added that the judgment served as a strong warning to potential offenders, reinforcing the government’s zero-tolerance stance on public indecency.

‘‘As the premier enforcement Agency in the State with operatives spread across the five divisions in the State, we must not allow public indecency such as open urination and defecation to fester undeterred and this daily monitoring of Lagos environs lead to the arraignment and prosecution of eight offenders in the same vein and we remain unshaken,” he said in a statement.

Similarly, on June 16, thirteen individuals were sentenced to three months imprisonment for open defecation and urination in the Agege and Alimosho areas of the state.

Court Jails Eight For Open Defecation, Urination In Lagos is first published on The Whistler Newspaper