Osun State Government has said it would prosecute violators of the environmental sanitation exercise in the state.
It spoke just as its monitoring team said it arrested some violators during the Thursday environmental sanitation exercise in Osogbo, the state capital.
They were alleged to have violated the environmental laws of the state, especially in the haphazard dumping of refuse on major roads and highways in the state capital, Osogbo, and other towns.
Commissioner for Environment, Hon. Mayowa Adejoorin who made this known added that the violators were apprehended very early in the morning.
He further explained that officers from the Ministry of Environment and Osun Waste Management Agency made the arrests when they mounted an early morning surveillance in many of the areas where residents and even nonresidents of the state have formed the habit of indiscriminately dumping heaps of refuse and other waste items.
The Commissioner maintained that the Ministry of Environment under his purview, will not relent in ensuring sanity throughout the state, stressing that no violator or group of violators caught or found would be spared from being prosecuted in line with the environmental laws of the state.
He, therefore, called on members of the public to stop the indiscriminate dumping of refuse.
