70 Landlords arrested for defrauding in providing toilets for house facilities

No fewer than 70 landlords have been arrested in the last two months for defaulting in providing toilets facilities in their houses in Ekiti.

The Director of Environment and Sanitation, Mr Tunde Balogun, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ado-Ekiti on Friday.

Balogun described the landlords as “recalcitrant residents’’, who always test the will of government when issues relating to policies and programmes come to question.

He said that the affected land lords would be prosecuted under the Ekiti State Environmental and Sanitation Law, 2004 and the Environmental Regulations 2009, as amended.

He recalled that this year, the state Ministry of Environment organised an awareness campaigns on the need for the landlords to abide by government’s policy of “One House, One Toilet’’.

“Those landlords, who were arrested, turned deaf ears to the government’s order, thinking they can ignore an important policy such as this and get away with it,’’ he said.

The director, who said the exercise would be continuous one, declared that all offenders would face the wrath of the law.

“There is nobody in Ekiti, who will say he is not aware of various existing Environmental laws that are passed by the House of Assembly and assented to by Gov. Kayode Fayemi.

“They think we are not serious about this, and so, they must pay dearly for this until they learn to comply.’’

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