Env. Sanitation: C'River Commissioner Orders Arrest and Detention of Police Officer for Resisting Arrest of Defaulting Spouse
Hannah Arikpo
The Cross River Commissioner of Environment, Hon. Moses Osogi has ordered the immediate arrest and detention of a Police Officer who resisted the arrest of his wife for violating the states monthly sanitation laws.
Osogi gave the order, when the alleged Officer went physical with Members of the sanitation monitoring Team, for questioning his spouse, an outdoor food vendor, who was found attending to Customers around Rabana roundabout by IBB Way, Calabar, during sanitation hours.
The detained DSP had questioned the rationale behind ordering his wife to stop selling, bragging that he's a personnel in the Governor's wife escort.
The Task Force made a similar arrest at Nassarawa, 8 miles in Calabar municipality, where a group of youngmen were caught playing football during sanitation hours.
The sanitation supervision took the taskforce team through Marian road, Ikot Ishie, 8miles, Nassarawa among other areas where arrests were made.
Defaulters were tried immediately by various mobile sanitation courts with an option of fine, those who couldn't pay were taken to the Calabar Correctional Center, Afokang as underaged convicts served their punishment by kneeling down throughout the hours of the exercise.
Confirming the incident, the Cross River Environment Commissioner expressed disappointment that some law enforcement Officers tern to live above the law, " Law enforcement agents are expected to protect and enforce the law rather than do otherwise. The government will not relent in its efforts to sustain the Clean and Green states of Cross River state."
" His Excellency, the Governor, Prince Bassey Edet is doing well. The level of compliance of government programmes and policies determines the peoples appreciative attitude towards the present administration, we are doing well."
He further called on Cross Riverians to continue to support government policies by projecting the state positively to the international community.
Some Respondents who spoke with our Correspondent, commended the restoration of the Environmental Sanitation Policy saying, " it is for the wellbeing of the people".
