124 offenders sentences for defecating in public

The Ogun State Government has arrested 124 open defecation violators for violating state environmental and health laws.
The task force arrested the suspects in various locations across the state.

Eighty-two of them were from Mowe-Ibafo, in the Obafemi Owode local government area of ​​the state.

The governor’s special advisor for the environment and director general of the Ogun State Waste Management Authority, Ola Oresanya, said all the offenders were sentenced to community service.

Environment Ministry information officer Rotimi Oduniyi in a statement on Thursday quoted Oresanya as saying the offenders had been apprehended as part of efforts to stop open defecation and maintain environmental safety of residents.

He said: “The bad habit, which occurs mostly late at night and at dawn, has negative implications on the immediate communities where it is practiced and on the state as a whole, especially during this time when the world is ravaged by a pandemic. ”

While insisting that arrests of offenders would continue, Oresanya warned drivers of articulated vehicles, which were passing through the state, including the Mowe-Ibafo axis, to stop defecating on the medians and edges. routes during stopovers.

He urged them to use public toilets provided by the state government instead of “such an ignominious practice”.