Lagos Waste Management Authority Logo. Photo: LAWMA
The Lagos Waste Management Authority on Monday secured the conviction of 16 environmental offenders following their arraignment before the Oshodi Special Offences and Mobile Court for various environmental infractions, including illegal waste disposal at unauthorised locations across the state.
The court sentenced each of the offenders to four months’ imprisonment, comprising one month on each of four counts bordering on indiscriminate waste disposal, failure to patronise assigned Private Sector Participants, breach of environmental sanitation laws, and other related offences.
This was contained in a recent statement by the Director of Public Affairs at LAWMA, Mukaila Sanusi, obtained by The PUNCH.
Sanusi explained that the convicts were arrested by LAWMA’s enforcement team during coordinated surveillance operations at Gbagada Expressway, Anthony Oke, Oworonshoki, and Bariga “for dumping waste illegally on road medians, drainage channels and other unauthorised locations, contrary to the environmental laws of Lagos State.”
