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Ooni Launches Environmental Sanitation Programme In Ife by generaladunna01(m): 10:20pm On Sep 18, 2016 |
The programme is worth millions of Naira and
anchored by Motherland Beckons and has as part
of strategies to push residents’ involvement a
cleaning competition among all the streets in Ife.
The cleanest street in Ile-Ife and its environs
when chosen would receive a cash reward of
100,000 Naira every month.
At the commissioning of the project held in front
of the Ile-Oodua, Enuwa Square in Ile Ife, Osun
State, Oba Ogunwusi, who was accompanied by
his queen, Olori Wuraola Ogunwusi, said the
provision of the two new Leyland trucks and
waste disposal bins was to encourage the people
of Ile-Ife to take the issue of sanitation very
seriously.
He declared that “environmental sanitation or
cleanliness is crucial in the drive to make Ile-Ife
a tourist destination. And Ile-Ife has to be
prepared ahead for the millions of tourists
expected to visit the ancient historical city from
next year”.
Ooni of Ife at the launching of the ‘Gba’femo’ initiative
According to him, this is why about 200 youths
have been selected and enlisted for the take-off
of the programme in collaboration with Local
Government Authorities.
Waste To Wealth Programme
Oba Ogunwusi, therefore, urged the women and
elders to co-operate with them in order to make
it successful.
“We should not leave every responsibility to the
government alone. We are the ones that voted for
those in position of authority. Thus, we are also
part of the government. Therefore, we need to
support the governments at all times to make our
environment clean, neat and healthy.
“It is part of Ife anthem to uplift Ile-Ife. It is when
we uplift our community that the government
would be encouraged and give necessary
assistance to our community,” the Ooni told
reporters.
He noted that the event was a great one before
God. “This is because God dwells in cleanliness.
And that is why the event is special to me,” he
highlighted.
Oba Ogunwusi emphasised that environmental
sanitation and cleanliness in all ramifications
should be properly observed and carried out in all
the nooks and crannies of Ile-Ife.
He encouraged all the residents to ensure that Ife
city became the cleanest city in Nigeria.
He said that the programme would begin from
each household.
One of the trucks that will be used for waste disposal in
Ife town
“It is the women that ensures cleanliness of the
home. Therefore, all the women in Ile-Ife and
environs should give priority to environmental
sanitation and cleanliness, the monarch added.”
He also urged the Environmental Sanitation
Vanguard in the palace to ensure the replication
of the clean palace environment observed in the
last six months despite visits by thousands of
people daily to the palace.
Earlier, the Project Manager, Mr Tunde Awoyemi,
while addressing the crowd at the event said that
Ooni Ogunwusi had challenged the youths,
women and elders of the community to be
actively involved in environmental sanitation and
cleanliness of Ile-Ife and environs.
He added that the two new Leyland trucks and
waste disposal bins provided by the monarch
would go round the city to collect refuse and
dump them at a designated dump site where it
would be separated for recycling, converting it to
wealth. “It would be waste to wealth programme,”
he stressed.
Also the Ife Traditional Council led by Obalufe of
Iremo, Oba Idowu Adediwura and Lowa Adimula
of Ife, Oba Julius Omisakin, spoke glowingly in
support of the programme initiated by Ooni
Ogunwusi.
They said that they had chosen wisely in picking
Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi as their king.
They also appealed for support and co-operation
of all and sundry in Ile-Ife and its environs to
make the programme successful.
This initiative is coming days after flood
destroyed property in the state’s capital city,
Osogbo , leading to the death of one person.
The incident had been blamed on indiscriminate
waste disposal by residents, something that the
Ooni is trying to address in Ife town.
Dredging work has, however, started in Osogb o to
guard against recurrence of the incident that
occurred after flood warning was issued |
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