Association Backs Fight Against Dirty Environment

The FCT Market Women
Association has expressed support  for the environmental ethics and safety corps in fighting against dirty environment under the aegis of centenary cleaner environment campaign.
The National Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the association, Mrs Yaduma Usaku, said this in an interview in Abuja.
“We will take it to the rural areas. We will make sure we go to our markets in the villages all over the 36 states and make sure that we enlighten our women.
“As the National PRO, I will carry the message to my President, Chief Mrs Felicia Sani, to call all the presidents from the states, let them come to FCT so that we will have a general meeting.
“She will tell them what the programme is all about so that we promote our country Nigeria at hundred,’’ she said.
Usaku said that Centenary Cleaner Environment Campaign was a programme empowered by an NGO known as “the Environmental Ethics and Safety Corps”.
She said the NGO had collaborated with the Environmental Health Council of Nigeria to ensure that the programme would achieve its objectives.
She added that one of the objectives is to ensure that all the 36 states of the federation were kept clean.
She noted that Nigerian markets were filthy, saying that people should imbibe the culture of proper waste management both in the markets and in their homes.
According to her, keeping the environment clean starts with oneself as all waste materials should be dumped at the appropriate places, to enable the appropriate authority to convey them to the dump site.
“We must look inward and explore ways of keeping our surroundings clean. We must be responsive and disciplined while doing this. “If the right thing is done and the environment is kept clean, there will be positive impact in the well-being of an individual,” she said. She noted that toilet was the commonest place that one could easily contract diseases, saying that measures should be taken to keep a healthy living.
The PRO stressed the need for stakeholders to collaborate to tackle environmental issues in the country.
She called on the Federal Government to provide all the necessary facilities that the newly launched corps needed to keep the country clean.

Managing Director Metal Recycling Plant, Mr Roy WoolCock (right) explains to chairman, House Committee on Environment, Hon Victoria Nyeche (3rd right) and her members, Hon Anderson Miller (3rd right) Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Environmet, Dr Nyema Weli (left), during the committee’s oversight function to the company at Kira in Tai LGA.
Photo: Chris Monyanaga