Lagos Court Jails Eight Residents For Open Urination

By Felix Kuyinu

The Lagos Mobile Court in Oshodi has convicted eight persons who have contravened the state’s environmental law through open urination.

The violators, who were arrested by officers of the Lagos Environmental Sanitation Corps, LAGESC, and charged to court yesterday were sentenced to one month jail term having commited the offence at Yaba area of the state.

The court found the lawbreakers: Idowu Adedeji, 25, Aliyu Mukaila, 32, David Chukwu, 60, Wasiu Dada, 40, Walter Ofuorochukwu, 37, Magaji Abubakar, 40, Adeseun Christopher, 60 and Adegoke Sule, 45, culpable of the offence which is punishable under Section 168(1) d) of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State 2015 and Section 5(1) of the Public Health Law 2015.

Following their conviction, the agency’s Corps Marshal, Olaniyi Cole said, ‘‘As the premier enforcement Agency in the State with operatives situated across 21 Divisions in the State, we must not allow public indecency such as open urination and defecation to fester undeterred and this daily monitoring of Lagos environs lead to the arraignment and prosecution of 8 offenders in the same vein and we remain unshaken”.

Cole also revealed that the judgement has consolidated the level of deterrence to intending defaulters not to engage in acts of public indecency.