DELTA MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT PROSECUTES ENVIRONMENTAL LAW VIOLATORS

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The Delta State Ministry of Environment has prosecuted no fewer than 23 violators of the state environmental law at the Bonsac axis of the state capital, Asaba.


Officials of the ministry monitored compliance in the area and in the end arraigned the 23 persons before a Sanitation Mobile Court.


Those arraigned were found either not to have registered with the Private Sector Participants, PSPs in refuse collection, not to have refuse bins or did not keep their environment clean.


Both individual and corporate clients were affected.


The Commissioner for Environment, Honourable Chris Onogba, represented by the Director Sanitation and Waste Management, Mr Lucky Adah, said enforcement of the law would continue until a reasonable level of compliance was achieved.


Onogba said the time had come for residents to take ownership of their environment as the era of living in a dirty environment in Delta state was gone for good.


He urged Deltans to be environment friendly for their own good, pointing out that living in healthy and clean environment had become more demanding in view of the Lassa Fever scourge which the state government was working had to prevent.


The Environment Commissioner noted that the level of environmental sanitation in Asaba had improved significantly through the joint effort of his Ministry, the Waste Management Board and the Delta State Capital Territory Development Agency, and urged residents not to go back to the old narrative.

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