By Sade Adewale, Ondo
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A Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ondo town, has sentenced a 30-year-old man, Gbenga Akinnola, to 10 months imprisonment, for not having sanitary latrine, bathroom, kitchen accommodations and for failure to provide an approved dustbin for use.

He was  convicted and sentenced by Mrs Odenusi Fadeyi, after pleading guilty to the charges preferred against him.

The court, however, gave him an option of N60,000 fine.

The environmental prosecutor, Mrs Adejoke Olarewaju, told the court that the convict, who reside on No 2, Ifelodun street, Oke-Odunwo, failed to provide sanitary latrine accommodation since the existing one is defective, emitting serious “obnoxious odour” and capable of causing epidemics.

Olanrewaju also said Akinnola failed to provide sanitary bathroom accommodation for their own use since the existing one expose the users, while he failed to provide sanitary kitchen accommodation for use.

She told the court that the accused  committed the offences contrary to Section 8, part 2 Cap 52 and punishable under Section 8 of the Ondo State Environmental Sanitation Laws, 2006.

The charge sheet read in part, ” That you, Akinnola Gbenga, of No 2, Ifelodun street, Oke-Odunwo, Ondo, failed to provide sanitary latrine accommodation since the existing one is defective emitting serious obnoxious odour and capable of causing epidemics.

When the charge was read to him, Akinnola pleaded guilty to all counts in the charge sheet and begged for leniency.

The presiding Magistrate, Mrs Fadeyi, found the defendant guilty on count one and sentenced him to six months imprisonment, with an option of N25,000 fine.

The court also sentenced him to three months on count two, with an option of N25,000 fine. While he bagged one month on count three with an option of N10,000 fine.

Though,  he was pardoned on count four, the court ordered him to buy an approved dustbin before leaving the court premises.

He was thereafter,  ordered to pay N5,000 in court for execution.