Pay N10,000 per Goat to Bail out your arrested goats - OWMA

The Osun State Waste Management Agency, OWMA, has ordered the owners of the five goats arrested in Osogbo, the state capital, last Tuesday to pay N10, 000 fines each. The Director of Environmental Management and Sanitation in the agency, Mr.Henry Ogunbanwo, who gave the order at the weekend, charged the owners of the goats to comply within seven days or lose their goats.

Though some of the owners of the arrested goats had approached the agency to claim their goats, but were compelled by law to pay the prescribed fine or forfeit the ownership of the goats. The agency was acting in line with the provision of article 101 of the 2002 Laws of Osun State, which prohibits rearing of animals in residential areas, adding that the agency has the backing of the court