The Lagos Environmental Sanitation Corps (LAGESC), popularly known as KAI, has secured the arrest and subsequent arraignment of eight environmental defaulters for charges bordering on breach of peace and public urination in the Yaba area of the state.

The suspects are Idowu Adedeji, M, 25, Wasiu Dada, M, 40, Aliyu Mukaila, M, 32, Walter Ofuorochukwu, M, 37, David Chukwu, M, 60, Magaji Abubakar, M, 40, Adegoke Sule, M, 45 and 60-year-old Adeseun Christopher.

They were arraigned before Magistrate Oshikoya of the Special Offences (Mobile Court) at Oshodi on charges bordering on breach of peace, an offence punishable under Section 168(1) d) of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State 2015 and open urination, an offence contrary to Section 5(1) of the Public Health Law 2015.

The Corps Marshal, Major Olaniyi Olatunbosun Cole (rtd), said: ”As the premier enforcement agency in the state with operatives situated across 21 Divisions in the state, we must not allow public indecency such as open urination and defecation to fester undeterred and this daily monitoring of Lagos environs lead to the arraignment and prosecution of eight offenders in the same vein and we remain unshaken.”

The retired major also revealed that the presiding magistrate sentenced the defaulters to one-month imprisonment.