The Hohoe Magistrate Court has sentenced Jonas
Magbeh, a landlord, and Peter Gah, a tenant, to a fine of GH¢420.00 for
indiscriminate disposal of human excreta and accumulation of waste water behind
their bathhouse.
Jonas and Peter both pleaded guilty to the
charges and were convicted on their own plea.
They will serve six months imprisonment each, if
they default in paying the fine.
Prosecuting, Mr Frank Azila-Gbettor, Chief
Environmental Health Assistant at the Hohoe Municipal Assembly, presenting the
facts of the case to the court presided over by Mr Peter Anongdare said the
accused persons were all living at Hohoe-Ahado.
He said the first accused person (Jonas) is a
landlord and second accused (Peter) with three other accused persons who were
absent in court were tenants who rented their rooms from the siblings of Jonas.
Mr Azila-Gbettor said on August 29, 2019, the environmental
health officers on their normal house to house inspection entered the accused
persons’s house and detected indiscriminate disposal of human excreta behind
their bathhouse and accumulation of waste water behind the bathhouse, leading
to the breeding of mosquitoes and emitting foul smell.
He said the accused persons were educated and
advised to construct a household latrine and abate the nuisances and added that
after several visits by the environmental health officer to the house of the
accused persons, the nuisances were not abated.
Prosecution said on February 10, 2020, the
officers went to the accused persons’ house and the aforementioned nuisances
still existed and the premises was filthy and unkempt. GNA