Twenty persons including traders were on Saturday arrested and prosecuted while their goods were also seized for failure to comply with sanitation laws.
Director Environmental Health and Sanitation, Mr Tunde Balogun announced this after monitoring this month’s exercise.
Balogun who was not happy with the attitude of people of the state towards hygiene, said the arrested offenders were made to face legal consequences so as to see e as lesson to others.
Also the permanent Secretary, Ministry of Environment and
Natural Resources, Mr Babatunde Alokan expressed dissatisfaction with level of people’s complaince.
He observed that people in areas like Okeiyinm market, motor parks and majorly Okesa market were engaging in normal business activities against the order of the sanitation which restrict trading and movement of people.
Mr Alokan said despite various sensitisation and jingles on radio as well as social media, the attitude of people to hygienic environment is still poor.
“We are not happy to see operational markets during environmental sanitation. Government will not fold it arms to allow residents to continue to engage in habits that can encourage epidemic” Alokan said
The permanent Secretary who maintained that efforts would be geared towards more sensitisation, however appreciated the residents of Igbehin street, Basiri, bank road, Ajilosun, Ilawe Road, Federal Poly Road for better complaince.
While sensitising the market women, the General Manager, Waste Management Authority, Mr Ayoola Osalusi appealed to traders to stop indiscriminate waste disposal but make use of government refuse vans to make their environment tidy.
