SEEPCO Donates 1,180 Water Purifiers To Lagos Community

Sterling Oil Exploration & Energy Production Company Limited (SEEPCO), last Friday organised an event with the theme, ‘Safe Drinking Water, Healthy Living’ with mothers and children from Otto Community in Lagos Island Local Government Area of Lagos Sate at Otto Primary School, Ijora-Olopa, Lagos.
This initiative was geared towards ensuring that women in the community have access to sustainable and safe drinking water and a total of 1,180 water purifiers (water guards) were distributed to the community.
Speaking at the event, Executive Director, Distribution Department, Lagos Water Corporation, Lagos State, Mr. Olatunji Saheed said, water is connected to every form of life. Contaminated water can lead to a variety of preventable health risks in a community.
According to him, access to safe drinking water is crucial for good outcomes in healthiness which influences all attributes of human growth.
“This initiative by SEEPCO can help decrease the high prevalence of water-borne diseases and improve the quality of life for the community. Safe drinking water must be among the highest priorities for every community. Water is bountiful, what is needed is to ensure that it is treated, purified, and made available by safe means. Reliable access to safe drinking water endorses healthy ecosystems,” he said.
Also speaking, the Chairman, Otto Community Development Association, Lagos State, Mr Muhez Salako said, providing safe drinking water has become a challenge for humankind.
He expressed appreciation to SEEPCO for understanding the challenges and moved to strengthen the Otto community through provision of safe drinking water. Safe drinking water is at the heart of SEEPCO, and it aims to build favourable, empowered, and prosperous community. “The company is dedicated to encouraging the right to safe drinking water a reality”.
Dignitaries that attended the safe drinking water event, averred that healthy living initiative, one of the most universal necessities for life is safe drinking water, saying that water being essential for human existence, safe drinking water is a human birthright. “It acts as a catalyst for progress, contributes to good health, and community resilience.”
They include Executive Director, Distribution Department, Lagos Water Corporation, Lagos State, Mr. Olatunji Saheed, Engr. (Mrs.) Oridami Bright, Assistant Director, Lagos Water Corporation, Lagos State, and Mr. Lanre Adetayo, South-West Water Lead, Society for Family Health, Lagos State.
Others are Hon. Azeez Oloto, Councillor, Otto Community Ward, Otto Community, Lagos State; Mr. Muheez Salako, Chairman, Otto Community Development Association, Otto Community, Lagos State and Mrs. Babalaye Oluwakemi Abeni-Chairperson, World Health Community, Otto Community, Lagos State.

By: Akujobi Amadi