Mrs. Olufunso Amosun, wife of the governor of Ogun State and President of UPLIFT Development Foundation, on Monday stressed the need for clean and safe environment in market places to prevent outbreak of sicknesses and diseases in the state.
Mrs. Amosun, who spoke during the commissioning of the UPLIFT Development Foundation blocks of toilets located at Panseke, Lafenwa and Adatan Markets in Abeokuta, said sicknesses and diseases like malaria, cholera, diarrhoea, dysentery and skin rashes could be prevented with clean environment.
Speaking at the event held in commemoration of the United Nations World Toilet Day, she said: “We are here to observe the United Nations 2018 World Toilet Day, a day set aside for everyone to maintain good personal hygiene and live a healthy life style because health is wealth.
“We need to have clean toilet facilities and stop defecating all around our environment. This is why the UPLIFT Development Foundation has deemed it fit to provide modern toilet facilities in our communities and market places.”
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She enjoined other stakeholders and well meaning Nigerians to join hands with government to improve the quality of lives of the people by investing in facilities that would affect the lives of the people and the environment positively, urging the market people to take good care of the facilities by cleaning them regularly.
Mr. Bolaji Oyeleye, the state’s Commissioner for Environment, said the construction of the toilet facilities was in line with the Goal Six of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), saying Mrs. Amosun’s effort in providing the facilities was a good way of complementing the work of the state government.
He expressed deep appreciation to the foundation in its bid to sustain the environment and promoting a healthy living for the people of the state, adding that the state government would continue to do its best to make life meaning for the less privilege in the society.
