By Nneka Nwogwugwu
Mr Sylvester Oromoni, Chairman, Delta State Task Force on Environment has assured that the state government will continue to use all lawful means to ensure state is clean.
Oromoni, said this while addressing newsmen shortly after the monthly exercise on Saturday.
He also announced that 100 persons in Warri South Local Government Area (LGA) of Delta were on Saturday prosecuted for violating the state environmental sanitation law.
The defaulters were arraigned at a mobile court presided over by Mrs Tunde Smooth, the Magistrate of Court 5, Warri South.
The mobile court which sat at the Warri South Council main secretariat convicted no fewer than 50 of the offenders and awarded them various fines depending on the magnitude of their offences.
Others were made to immediately carryout community service as punishment for their offences.
here was restriction of movement between 7:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. to enable residents in Warri participate fully in the monthly exercise.
Oromoni, said that the mobile courts would continue to prosecute violators until people learned to obey the state’s environmental laws.
Oromoni, however, appealed to the residents of the state to always maintain proper hygiene by way of keeping their environments clean.
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