No fewer than 100 persons in Warri South Local Government Area of Delta were on Saturday prosecuted for violating the state environmental sanitation law.

The Supervisor for Environment, Warri South, Omawumi Elete, said, following an exercise to keep the council clean “We were able to arrest over 100 defaulters and they were charged to our mobile courts, which imposed some fines on them.”

The defaulters were arraigned at a mobile court presided over by Tunde Smooth, the Magistrate of Court 5, Warri South.

The mobile court which sat at the Warri South Council main secretariat convicted no less than 50 of the offenders, awarding them various fines depending on the magnitude of their offences.

Others were instantly engaged in community service as punishment.

There was restriction of movement between 7:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. to enable residents in Warri participate fully in the monthly exercise.

Sylvester Oromoni, Chairman, Delta Task Force on Environment, while addressing journalists after the monthly exercise, said the mobile courts were to ensure people obey the state’s environmental laws.

“It is no longer going to be business as usual, as the state government will continue to use all lawful means to ensure that the  state is kept clean,” he said.

Mr Oromoni, however, appealed to the residents of the state to always maintain proper hygiene by way of keeping their environments clean.

(NAN)