World Environment Day: Loads of Waste Evacuated as CEPEJ Embark on Cleaning Exercise in Delta

By Ezekiel Kagbala FPR

A Nongovernmental organization, Center for Peace and Environmental Justice CEPEJ, on Wednesday, embarked on waste clean-up exercise to celebrate 2022 World Environment Day themed; "Only One Earth"

The foremost NGO in Delta State 
embarked on cleanup exercise to commemorate World environment day, annually celebrated, June 5, however, CEPEJ started early to accommodate other environmental programs lined up to create elaborate awareness across Nigeria.

The National Coordinator CEPEJ, Comrade Sheriff Mulade in collaboration with other Civil Society Organizations and Environmental Sanitation agencies participated in the awareness and cleanup exercise from Eneheren Junction to Hausa quarters/ Igbudu market to enable traders imbibe the culture of cleanliness.

During a press briefing Mulade said that, "All stakeholders including agencies of government as well as Federal Ministry of Environment should create awareness on the dangers of indiscriminate disposal of wastes and need to ensure clean environment"

"We must take action to protect our environment so that it does not fight back, we don't have another earth".

During the exercise, it was observed that when bins get full of dirts, people would drop the dirts on the roadside, they begin to overflow on the roads for days, causing flies and littering the environment.