*As Woman Pays N35,000 To Avoid Jail Sentence
By Eseoghene Emuke
Zabairu Abubakar, a cart pusher, has been sentenced to two month imprisonment by the mobile court of the Delta State Waste Management Board for indiscriminate disposal of waste.
Similarly, a resident of Asaba, the state capital, has narrowly escaped being sentenced to prison for contracting her waste to the cart pusher who is not a registered waste disposal.
The Asaba resident, Mosuratu Omotosho, however, paid N35,000.00 to avoid jail sentence.
Chairman of the State Waste Management Board, Mr. Emma Chinye, who confirmed the development on Monday, said the convict, Ababakar, was caught while dumping the waste collected from Omotosho on the median of a road in the state capital.
Abubakar, who was caught by officials of the board, was tried and sentenced by the mobile court of the agency.
Chinye said Omotosho contracted the cart pusher for N700.00 to dispose off her domestic waste instead of engaging the services of Private Sector Participants (PSP) whom she could have paid N1,000.00 every month to have her waste properly disposed off.
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Chinye said, “Last week Saturday, we sent a truck pusher to Ogwashi-Uku prison for littering our environment.
“We caught the man with truck loaded with refuse, arrested him, and he led us to the woman who contracted him, and we arrested her also.
“A mobile court was set up, tried them, and the woman paid N35,000 fine but the truck pusher could not afford it, so we sent him to two months prison in Ogwashi-Uku.”
He, however, appealed residents of the state to register with Private Sector Participants (PSP) for proper disposal of their waste, warning that anyone caught would be jailed by the agency.
