The Ash-Town District Court One has jailed a 66-year-old man for polluting a stream near his house at Bremang-Nkontwima in Kumasi.
Dauda Akorobila would serve seven days in prison for his punishment.
He pleaded guilty to the charge.
The court presided over by Mr Solomon Kofi Achina heard from Mr William Aduaga, an Environmental Health Officer, that the convict has for some time now been collecting an illegal fee of 30 Ghana pesewas to allow residents of the area to dump refuse into the stream.
Warning by environmental health officers to end this went unheeded and he was therefore arrested.