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PHOTO Environment Environmental Sanitation: Court commits 38 to community service in Delta

Written By: Ebule Anthony Metsese 

29 Jul 2024 03:19 AM

Warri, Delta – The Warri South Local Government Council Mobile Court, sitting at the Council's Main Secretariat in Warri, on Saturday July 27, committed 38 persons to community service, for flouting the three - hour restriction order announced by the Delta State Government.                                 

The Presiding Judge, Chief Magistrate E.V. Tunde Smooth (Mrs.) also slammed 25 sanitation defaulters with fines ranging between one and three thousand naira and discharged one person on health ground.                      
Delta State Commissioner for Environment, Mr. Jamani Tommy Ejiro, who alongside the Chairman of Warri South Local Government Area, Comrade Weyinmi Isaac Agbateyiniro, supervised the environmental sanitation exercise in Warri South Local Government Area, said the turnout of people during the three - hour clean-up , "wasn't too encouraging."                         
The Commissioner, commended Chairman of Warri South Local Government Area, Comrade Agbateyiniro and members of his team, for enforcing the environmental sanitation exercise, urging Deltans to collaborate with government to make the state cleaner.               

Whilst noting that environmental sanitation across the state is a daily exercise, Mr. Jamani, assured that authorities of Warri South Local Government area, through the Market Master, would ensure that traders at Igbudu Market, Warri, comply with the state government sanitation order, henceforth. 

Chairman of Warri South Local Government Area, Comrade Weyinmi Agbateyiniro, told newsmen in an interview that from Monday July 29, the Council will swing into action, to open the internal roads in Igbudu Market and ensure that it is properly cleaned up for business.                             

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