LIONS CLUB PRESENTS PLASTIC RECYCLING BINS TO ONDO STATE AS GOVERNOR AKEREDOLU RECEIVES MELVIN JONES FELLOWSHIP AWARD
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LIONS CLUB PRESENTS PLASTIC RECYCLING BINS TO ONDO STATE AS GOVERNOR AKEREDOLU RECEIVES MELVIN JONES FELLOWSHIP AWARD
No fewer than twenty recycling bins have been donated by the Akure Professionals Lions Club to the Ondo State Government in support of the waste-to-wealth policy of the global community.
The President of the Club, Dr.(Mrs) Olubunmi Ademosu who also doubles as the Special Adviser to the Governor on Public and Integovernmental Relations emphasized that the development is in line with the efforts to ensure safe and clean environment as well as creating platforms for societal engagement.
Ademosu said the Akure Professionals Lions Club has since put in place all the required structures and processes to ensure that the targets of the organisation to attend to the vulnerable, especially at the less privileged homes are achieved with the aim of justifying the existence of the international organisation.
In her words, ” we have here four bins to display while others would be deployed as planned to ensure that both we create awareness and achieve a buy-in of all the necessary stakeholders. It is a project that can engage our people, especially those who have interest in doing something new”.
She emphasized that Akure Professionals Lions Club has already created a high degree of platforms to create sense of belonging among residents while her office will keep supporting all programmes that can benefit the people.
The District Governor 404-A1 Nigeria, Anogwi Anyanwu appreciated Governor Akeredolu for his sustained support for Lions Club International.
He noted that Lions Club conceived the programme to tackle the menace of plastic waste in the environment.
Speaking at the event, Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu SAN, CON thanked the Lions Club International for its numerous interventions in the State.
The Governor harped on the need to encourage youths to embrace the waste to wealth initiative.
Akeredolu said ”Lions Club is known all over the world and your contribution is not something you can hide. I remember when we commissioned the Dialysis Centre at UNIMEDTH. I was there personally. I was also there to commission the Millennium Eyes Centre and I want to thank your members for recognizing our little contributions.
“It is not my personal contributions, it is the state that contributed it. Ondo State is partnering with you on a number of projects because I remember then, we were asked to make specific contribution to Millennium Eyes Centre and we did.
“The donation of this recycling bins was informed by the menace that all these plastic bottles are causing all over the country. And the country is not making any effort to find a way to solve it. If you go abroad today and you go to many hotels, they will serve you water in glass bottles, not plastic, because they are trying to reduce it. But in Nigeria it is increasing. To add to it, sachet water supply is increasing”.
“A lot of our waterways today are eyesores because you just see bottles there but a lot of people have found use for these bottles. It is just for us to make sure we propagate this your programme. It is a worthwhile programme. If you propagate it very well and give it adequate publicity, many of our Youths, not only youths but other people who don’t have anything to do will be engaged.
“This is why Lions Club, not only to donate this bins, but must have publicity, education and programme that people can also appreciate and let them realize that it is for their own good because they will make money from it. You also encourage them too to go to so many of our dump sites, from there you will see more bottles for recycling.
“I have seen building constructed with bottles and people live in it. So, encourage them. I want to thank you and appreciate Lions Club for what you have done in Akure. If we talk of new buildings in our University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital (UNIMEDTH), they are your buildings. Your Eyes Centre is there, the Dialysis Centre is there and they are working. We want to appreciate you for these.
The occasion also witnessed presentation of the prestigious Melvin Jones Award of the Lions Club International to the Governor in recognition of his dedicated humanitarian services.
The Award was presented to the Governor at his office, Alagbaka, Akure by the District Governor, 404-A1 Nigeria, of the Lions Club, Lion Anogwi Anyanwu.
The Melvin Jones Fellowship (MJF) is considered the backbone of the Lions Club International. The MJF is bestowed on those who have made tremendous contribution to humanity and to the legacy of the founder, Melvin Jones.
“On the Award, this is one award I am proud of. I will display it with pride. We must also show appreciation to you for this new project, provision of Recycling Bins, out of the Lions Club programmes all over the country, not only here.
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