The Edo State Government has urged members of the public to report anyone or group of persons found removing manhole covers on major roads and walkways to the nearest security agency or to the Ministry of Environment and Sustainability.
In a statement, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Sustainability, Lucky Wasa said security agencies have been empowered to arrest and prosecute anyone caught in the act.
Wasa noted, “the attention of the state government has been drawn to the incessant criminal habit of removing and carting away of steel manhole covers on major roads and walkways by some unscrupulous persons.”
Permanent Secretary, Edo State Ministry of Environment, Lucky Wasa (left), with other government officials evacuating vital documents after security operatives foiled arson attempt at Palm House, along Sapele Road, in Benin City…yesterday
Edo State Government has disclosed that it deployed security operatives to safeguard its secretariat also known as Palm House, in Benin City, the state capital.
This followed intelligence reports of an arson attempt on the offices of the Ministry of Environment and Sustainability, with a view to destroying critical documents of the N30b Benin Stormwater Project.
Governor Godwin Obaseki had during an inspection of the Textile Mill Road catchment of the stormwater project on Monday morning vowed to set up a panel to investigate how money meant for the project was spent, decrying that the project was conceived by the previous administration in the state to defraud Edo people.
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Edo govt seals 23 sawmills over illegal logging
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Edo State Government has sealed 23 sawmills for being in possession of 279 illegal logs believed to have been harvested without permission from relevant authorities.
Mr Lucky Wasa, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Sustainability, disclosed this while speaking with journalists in Benin on Tuesday.
Wasa, who said that the illegal logs were cut and taken away from the state’s forest reserves at odd hours, vowed that the culprits would be brought to book.
He also said that forest officers and uniform field staff would henceforth be running shifts to curtail activities of illegal loggers.
Three notorious illegal loggers have been arrested at the Okomu High Conservation value area (HCV), Edo State, with over 35 highly-endangered species of timber, loaded in three lorries.