JWSC arrests 44 persons over alleged pollution, illegal activities at Lamingo dam

The Jos Water Services Corporation has decried illegal activities around the Lamingo water dam site, one of its sources of raw water. Briefing journalists,on Wednesday, after the arrest of 44 persons on the site by officials of the corporation and security men, Mr Apollos Samchi, the Managing Director, said that their activities posed a…

According to the corporation’s managing director, the activities resulted in the leak of various chemicals and heavy metals into the raw water source. Samchi said that the corporation, prior to the raid, had issued several warnings to the people engaged in the illegal activities to vacate the site. A Rwandan court on Wednesday found opposition leader and government critic Victoire Ingabire ineligible to run in the July presidential elections because of previous convictions for terrorism and genocide denial. "I disagree with this ruling. It is clearly politicised. We still have a country where the courts are still not independent," she told AFP after…

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