Oyo state gives three days warning for houses that have no waste bin
A clean environment will make you and your family members healthy and free from all forms of germs and deceases.
In order to keep Oyo state clean and free from any deceased across the state, the government is set to go all out to seal houses and commercial centres across the state that have no waste bins.
The state commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Mr Isaac Ishola, said that there would be a house-to-house inspection of bins and three days warning starting from next Monday.
Warning that owners of houses who disregard the seal order would be fined 200,000, he said the measure was put in place to implement the state’s environmental laws.
The commissioner disclosed during an interaction with Journalist in this at an Ibadan.
He said the act had become imperative due to indiscriminate dumping of refuse.
He mentioned areas such as Beere, Oje, Ojoo, Sango, Moniya, Akingbile, Olode as hotspots for the indiscriminate dumping of refuse.
“The Oyo State Environmental law, section 74, stipulates that every house must have a waste bin. Every person that generates waste must dispose of it in a sustainable manner and through government accredited waste collectors. We will be inspecting the houses and any house without waste bin would be sealed after a three days grace period.
“Violators are liable to 6months jail term or option of N50, 000 fines. Whoever disregards the seal order on any house would pay N200,000.”
According to Ishola, no fewer than 1,342 environmental law offenders were arrested and convicted last year but the practice of indiscriminate waste disposal still resonated among residents across the state.
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