ABA? The Aba South Local Government Environmental Health Office, yesterday, arraigned a monarch, Chinasa Ijeh of Amatu Autonomous Community, for alleged environmental offences.
Ijeh was arraigned at the Customary Court in Aba on a five-count charge of alleged failure to keep his compound clean, among others.
The other offences are failure to renew his house?s certificate of fitness, channel sewage content appropriately, repair septic tank and obtain excavation permit.
Prosecutor, Prince McAnthony, said the offences contravened Rule 82 Paragraph V and Rule 83 of the Public Health Laws CAP 139, Laws of Abia State.
The accused would be sentenced to one month imprisonment or an option of N5000 or N10,000 if found guilty.
Ijeh pleaded not guilty to the charge. He told the court that when the health officer came to his house, ?I showed him every certificate he requested. Having seen all, he went further to ask me to give him N5000 for his superior officer at their office.
?But I asked him why I should do that and he said it was to save me from being arraigned in court. I, therefore, asked him to arraign me in court if he so wishes because I was not afraid of the court and that I will come to the court to defend myself. That was how I was brought to this court.?
Ijeh also said that the certificate which was issued to him years back had no indication that it expires annually.
The prosecutor, who did not counter the claims of Ijeh, however, insisted that he did not get site approval certificate which was supposed to be renewed annually.
The Presiding Senior Magistrate, Dr Diamond Olewengwa, intervened and said that he would not allow a monarch to be ?disgraced? in his court.
Olewengwa, therefore, urged the prosecutor to settle the matter with Ijeh out of court and adjourned the case to July 10, for report of settlement.
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Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/06/monarch-arraigned-over-dirty-environment/
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