The state Director of Environment and Sanitation, Mr Tunde Balogun, said this in Ado-Ekiti on Friday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, (NAN).
Balogun said the affected landlords were arrested under the Ekiti State Environmental and Sanitation Law, 2004 as well as Environmental Regulations 2009 as amended.
The director, who vowed that more culprits would soon be arrested, said nobody was above the law.
"There is nobody in Ekiti State who will say he is not aware of the existing environmental laws that were passed by the state House of Assembly and assented to by the governor.
"It is the resolve of this government that the people change from their old habits that are inimical to the beautification agenda of the governor, " he said.
He also said the Ministry of Environment had organised awareness campaigns on the need by landlords to abide by government's policy of "One House, One Toilet."
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