Nigeria’s emerging social platform, Playmates Royale Club, PRC, took to the streets on Saturday, June 22, 2019 to mobilize youths and residents in the general cleaning of Jibowu, Igbobi, Sabe community, Yaba in Lagos.
The exercise which witness a huge turnout of young men and women who happily moved around in every street to pick and adequately dispose waste amidst cheers and applauds.
The cleaning exercise began about 8am with music jams to motivate the volunteers who turn out in hundreds within the neighborhood
The team moved From 4 Igbobi Sabe to Onayade street, then moved from to Ijaoye street to the roundabout linking Oweh st, Lawal st , Abimbola st. and back to the pilot point.
Mate Olatubosun Awonuga, the chairman board of Trustee,PRC, in an interview with newsmen lamented that refuse disposal points were lacking in some major suburbs within the metropolis, making residents of such areas to dispose their refuse indiscriminately.
“Some of these areas usually are in the habit of disposing their refuse in uncompleted buildings regardless of where such buildings are located.
Most of the time, such uncompleted buildings are located in residential areas, thereby exposing nearby residents to risk of contacting infectious diseases while rodents and reptiles use such places as their abode,” he said.
Mate Abdulrazaq Abayomi Badmus, the Club’s vice President in his speech, advised government to provide adequate refuse dumps where residents can dispose their wastes. Speaking further, the initiative decried the haphazard activities of traders around the state, saying, “Their surroundings are usually dirty with all sorts of used packaged materials because most of the consumers indiscriminately dump waste products on the ground after use.
Mate Nosa Omoregie, the club’s Social secretary also called on the relevant authorities enforcing environmental sanitation laws to take the necessary steps to curtail such potentially harmful practices.
The club members had on Thursday June 20 visited Mainland High School in Fadeyi, Lagos to deliver a seminar on the dangers in illicit drug abuse.
The seminar had in attendance, Mr Charles Onojedje from the NDLEA office, who was the guest speaker , the vice principal, teachers and students who were about hundred with a lots of souvenirs given to the students.
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