The Borno State government has set up an environmental mobile court to check indiscriminate dumping of wastes in Maiduguri, the state capital.
Permanent secretary, in the state’s Ministry of Environment, Alhaji Mustapha Kurna, disclosed the plan in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Maiduguri.
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 area around the post office; 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, and also urged them to desist from indiscriminate dumping of refuse, and added that they could result to 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 strategics locations in the metropolis.