The club made the call during a clean-up exercise from Ojuelegba under bridge to Tejuosho market, in commemoration of this year’s World Clean Up Day.
District Governor, Ifeyinwa Ekezie, appealed to the government to provide waste bins by the roadsides to encourage proper waste disposal.
Ekezie, who used the occasion to solicit people’s support for a cleaner environment said all hands must be on deck to ensure environmental sustainability:
She said: “We are doing this because we know that the Lagos State government cannot do everything alone. So, we are here as partners in progress to the government, as Rotarians, to teach our community the need to dispose of their wastes properly, especially plastics that end up blocking drainages.” On the success of the yearly exercise, she said: “What we do every year has attracted many people to Rotary; people see us and join us. It is our duty to help the community and the less-privileged to find peace.”
We are asking everyone to become Rotarians and those that cannot join should support financially to enable us to do more, because it costs a lot to do this.
Also, Imaginative President, Rotary Club of Egbe, Lawrence Adesoye, said: “We need a clean environment just like we have in developed countries. The Lagos State government is trying in terms of waste collection and enforcement by the state environmental sanitation corps (LAGESC), but more actions are needed,” Adesoye said.
