By Kennedy Aniedozie
Anambra State Commissioner for Environment, Dr. Clem Aguiyi, has charged the Dobe Anambra Ocha team to intensify environmental sensitisation campaigns in schools and communities to promote a cleaner and greener state.
Dr. Aguiyi gave the charge when the team paid him a courtesy visit at his office in the Jerome Udorji Secretariat Complex, Awka.
The Commissioner, in line with Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s vision of a livable Anambra, stressed that environmental education is critical to value reformation. He urged Ndi Anambra, irrespective of age, to embrace environmental responsibility.
He emphasised the need to inculcate proper environmental practices in schoolchildren and called for increased public awareness campaigns through television, radio and social media platforms.
Earlier, the team’s coordinator, Mr. Ernest Okafor, thanked the Commissioner for his support and reaffirmed the team’s commitment to promoting a cleaner and greener Anambra.
He noted that the team had been actively involved in environmental sensitisation and drainage desilting within Awka, the state capital.
Kennedy is of the ministry of Information and Value Reformation, Anambra State
