Permanent Secretary in the Delta State Ministry of Environment, Dr. Minnie Oseji has charged Deltans to preserve their environment by disposing their waste properly.
Dr. Oseji gave the charge while addressing Journalist during the celebration of the World Environment Day, in Asaba, the state capital.
Oseji urged them to avoid things that would create flooding, reducing the mitigation of climate change through our activities and also planting trees.
She advised them to avoid illegal falling of tree, adding that if they have to pull down a tree, they should make effort to plant another one to replace it.
According to her, the theme of year 2022 World Environment Day, ‘Only One Earth’, focused on living sustainably in harmony with nature, adding that it required all humans to become change agents in adopting cleaner and greener lifestyle.
She added that planet Earth was their only home, hence they must be preserve their natural resources for future generations.
The Permanent Secretary said that the year’s World Environment Day marked the 50th years since the Stockholm Conference in Sweden in the year 1972, led to the designation of 5th June as World Environment Day.
Highlight of the annual event was a rally and road walk exercise to sensitize Deltans on the need to live sustainably in harmony with nature.
Some of the places visited were, Interbua junction, Konwea and Ogbeogono market and it’s environment where clean up exercises were monitored, fliers distributed and also was the distribution of refuse bags to promote bagging and proper disposal of waste.
