Lagos State, the Environmental Special Offences Court presided over by Magistrate MCDAVIES AMORE, has committed 26 persons to community service for dumping waste indiscriminately in different parts of the state. 

The offenders were arrested by the enforcement team of the Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA), in collaboration with the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps while disposing of their refuse.

Managing Director of LAWMA, MUYIWA GBADEGESIN, said the ongoing joint enforcement has been intensified in line with the government’s zero-tolerance on indiscriminate waste disposal.

According to him, the era of recklessness and disdain for the environment is over and anyone caught under whatever guise will face the wrath of the law. 

GBADEGESIN warned that there would be no hiding place for defaulters.