The National Environment Agency’s fresh crackdown on plastic bags has seen the environment agency arrest hundreds of offenders.
The agency on its official Facebook page on Monday said enforcement on the ban on plastic bags Order 2015 has resulted in hundreds of “offenders arrested, hundreds taken to magistrate courts, whilst hundreds awaiting bail at different police stations or possible evacuation to Mile two if no one is willing to bail them”.
“The NEA therefore call on all citizens and non-alike residing in the country to be law abiding, noting that Environmental protection is everyone`s business. The ban on plastic bags came to order since July 2015,2 NEA said.
An official of the agency told The Fatu Network the crackdown began since last week and it has also seen the agency disentangle the different smuggling methods including women pretending to be pregnant when it’s plastic bags that they would attach to their stomach.
