The Managing Director of the Anambra Broadcasting Service, ABS, Sir Chido Obidiegwu has called for collective efforts towards the realization of the clean, green and prosperous Anambra state vision of the Governor Chukwuma Soludo led administration.

 

Sir Chido made the call when top officials of the Anambra State Waste Recyclers Association, ASWRA, paid him a visit in his office at the ABS Cooperate Headquarters, in Awka.

The Anambra State Waste Recyclers Association, which operates under the State Ministry of Environment, is one of the Agencies with which the state government works with to archive its target of making Anambra state the most clean and healthy state in Nigeria.

 

The ABS MD, Sir Chido who pointed out that Governor Chukwuma Soludo is passionate about the environment, which is evident in the numerous interventions on the environment including the tree planting initiative, harped on the need for people to be sensitive about their environment, as according to him, human activities revolve round the environment and human survival depends on it.

He assured the group that the ABS will partner them in all ramifications to ensure that a more conducive and livable environment is realized in no distance time.

 

Earlier in a remark, the Chief Executive Officer of Sweep Foundation and Convener Anambra State Waste Recyclers Association, Barrister Philip Obuesi said that it is necessary for all the state’s residents to subscribe to the clean, green and sustainable Anambra initiative of Governor Soludo government by having attitudinal change towards the environment and shunning indiscriminate dumping of refuse for a better environment.

 

Barrister Obuesi while calling for synergy between the group and the ABS, explained that among efforts by the organization towards the realization of the clean and healthy Anambra as planned by Governor Soludo, is the ongoing statewide plastic wastes recovery challenge which officials of the association go round communities in the state daily to buy the picked plastics from members of the communities as a way of teaching the people that they can turn their wastes into wealth, as well as discouraging indiscriminate disposal of non-degradable wastes which according to him cause major havoc in the environment.

Contributing, the Coordinator General, Anambra State Waste Recyclers Association, Pastor Ben Agape said that they are in Anambra to help make the dream of better Anambra a reality, and encouraged Ndi Anambra to take active part in the statewide plastic wastes recovery challenge, especially the one coming up on Saturday this week.

 

On his part, the Managing Director of the Anambra State Wastes Management Agency, Chief Mike Ozoemene urged the state’s residents to be fair to the environment and to participate actively in this Saturday’s end of the Month sanitation exercise which will take place simultaneously across the state.

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