Two Mobile Courts sitting in Benin on Saturday
convicted 95 people for various sanitation offences in the state monthly environmental
sanitation exercise.
Chief Magistrate Ihenyen Aigbediofe convicted 60
people at Kilometre 6, while Magistrate Osamudiamen Afe, convicted 35 people at
Oredo.
While some were convicted for not participating in
the exercise, the others were convicted for wandering and obstructing
sanitation officials from discharging their duties.
The presiding Magistrates sentenced the accused
persons to various terms of imprisonment or an option of fines of between N5,
000 and N7, 000, respectively.
The Chief Prosecution, Mr Pius Oiwoh, advised the
people to always obey sanitation laws to avoid conviction.
Mr Yusuf Osagie, the Chairman of the Edo State
Committee on Environment, described cleanliness as next to Godliness.
Osagie said the punishment would serve as a
deterrent to others who deliberately violate sanitation law, adding that the
offences contravened the Edo State Sanitation law.
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