Borno Government Plans Environmental Mobile Court

Borno State Government is to set up an environmental mobile court to check indiscriminate dumping of wastes in the state capital.

The Permanent Secretary of the state’s Ministry of Environment, Alhaji Mustapha Kurna, disclosed the plan in an interview with newsmen in Maiduguri.

Kurna said that a committee would be constituted to plan for the establishment of the court to check the activities of road side hawkers and indiscriminate dumping of refuse in the state capital.

He said, “We have in the past driven away all the road side hawkers in the metropolis, but it seems they have started coming back.

Look at the situation at the Post Office area in the state, traders have taken over the road and are causing accidents and traffic congestion.

By the time the mobile court commences sitting, whoever is arrested in connection with any of the environmental offences will be duly charged and prosecuted.

The permanent secretary advised the hawkers to vacate the streets in their own interest before the law caught up with them.

He also urged them to desist from indiscriminate dumping of refuse, adding that they could cause contamination of the environment, which could be very hazardous to human health.

Kurna urged the residents to always dump their refuse in the dustbins placed by government in some strategies locations in the metropolis.