Bauchi mobile court convicts four over environmental violations

A mobile court sitting on the Bauchi State Environmental Protection Agency (BASEPA) has convicted four individuals for violating sanitation and environmental rules after they pleaded for leniency.

The presiding Justice of the Peace, Laraba Hamisu, convicted Musa Bashir of Magaji Quarters for failing to adjust to the month-to-month environmental sanitation train.

The court sentenced him to 10 days of neighborhood service beneath the supervision of the Nigerian Correctional Service in Bauchi and BASEPA.

Another defendant, Malam Bello Hassan of Kur, was sanctioned for obstructing waterways.

Similarly, Sarajo Yusuf, Shu’aibu Abubakar and Adamu Musa, all from Zango, have been convicted of blocking their neighbour’s wastewater channel by means of unlawful building on a setback.

Meanwhile, counsel to Bello Hassan, Barrister M.S. Abdulkarim, requested an adjournment to allow him to review the case involving allegations that his shopper had didn’t adjust to a court order directing him to take away an unlawful obstruction from a waterway.

The court granted the appliance and adjourned the matter to a later date.