Information
emerging from the Permanent Secretary, Edo State Ministry of
Environment and Public Utilities, Maj. Lawrence Loye (retd.), has
revealed that the state government has begun the process of establishing
mobile courts to try environmental sanitation offenders.
The
Permanent Secretary, who stated this at the inauguration of the state
Technical Committee on Environmental Sanitation in Benin on Wednesday,
said the state would no longer tolerate shoddy handling of environmental
matters.
According
to him, “We are working on the introduction of mobile courts to address
issues of environmental sanitation offences, where offenders will be
tried in accordance with the law… The magistrate will be in the mobile
court, we will move from street to street. We look forward to bringing
environmental standard in the state to an acceptable level comparable
with what is obtainable in other parts of the world. We want to see the
cities neat and I promise all that it is not going to be business as
usual.
“My
advice is to encourage all to work as a team, build the structure of
enforcement and address illegality associated with enforcement… No
enforcement team will be allowed in any local government area without
the supervision of the technical committee, to avoid cases of extortion
and other untoward acts… For environmental sanitation, its either you
are part of the team or outside of it. If you’re not part of the
technical committee, you cannot enforce.”
TalkOfNaija
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