Ekiti Govt arrests 70 lanlords without toilet facilities in their houses

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.'' (NAN)