No fewer than five goats were yesterday
arrested at Dele-Yesa area in Osogbo, the Osun
State capital by officials of the state Waste
Management Agency (OWMA) for allegedly
violating environmental laws.

The state Coordinator of the agency, Mr. Henry
Ogunbanwo said the goats would be charged to court by the agency and would be prosecuted in accordance with the laws guiding environmental protection in the state.

He said the state government had issued notice of
warning to all residents of the state capital on the
need to monitor their domestic animals to avoid
public disturbance by the animals, which, he said, was against the environmental laws. Ogunbanwo disclosed that the five goats arrested were detained at the office of the agency in Osogbo from where they would be taken to court for prosecution.

He said the goats ran fowl of the laws guiding
environmental protection by roaming around the
residential area of Osogbo instead of being caged by
their owners. He declared that the present
administration in the state had zero tolerance for
dirtiness and environmental hazard; hence the need for the enshrinement of the environmental laws,adding that the government would not take it lightly with violators of the laws According to him, officials of the agency would from now move to every nook and cranny of the state to arrest animals violating the state environmental laws, stressing that owners of such animals would also be dealt with in accordance with the provisions of the laws.

He advised those rearing domestic animals to keep
them in a cage to avoid arrest, insisting that his
agency would not allow any animal to roam about on
the streets of any town or village in the state. He
urged those looking for their goats in Osogbo and its
environs to check at the state office of OWMA in
Osogbo.

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