The mobile court set up by the Kwara State government to prosecute environmental offenders on Thursday convicted 21 offenders, just as 12 others are awaiting trial.
The Director of Environment, Mary Mustapha, disclosed that the convicts were fined between N2,000 and N10,000.
According to the spokesman of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC,) Ayoola Michael Shola, those arrested during the monthly enforcement were first brought to the NSCDC facility from where they were moved to the Ministry of Environment for arraignment.
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It would be recalled that the state government on Monday, inaugurated a 300-man surveillance taskforce to check indiscriminate dumping…
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