A Hohoe Magistrate Court finds George Yibor, a cocoa farmer and landlord, guilty of refusing to construct a household toilet.
Yibor was fined GH1,200 and informed that if he did not pay the fee, he would be sentenced to six months in jail.
The defendant, who appeared before Madam Edith Lucy Dzormeku in court, pleaded guilty and explained that he had yet to install a new toilet since the existing one was deemed unsafe to use.
He said that the artisans he hired to construct the new toilet had disappointed him.
The Court, on the other hand, decided that the convict’s reasons were insufficient to exonerate him, and thereby acquitted Yibor on his own plea.
Mr Frank Azila-Gbettor, Chief Environmental Protection Assistant at the Hohoe Municipal Assembly, who was prosecuting the prosecution, told the court that the defendant was the owner of a house in Hohoe with five tenants but resided in Papase.
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Environmental Health Officers inspected the convict’s house on March 19, 2020, during an investigation, and discovered the lack of a household toilet, he said, adding that the tenants were taught and urged to work with their landlord to provide one.
Mr Azila-Gbettor reported that the Officers returned to the house on June 19, the same year, and found that Yibor had taken no action against a law passed by the Assembly in 2018 .
When George Yibor refused to appear in court in July of last year, a bench warrant was released for his detention. He was then apprehended and sentenced.
SOURCE: ATLFMONLINE
