Elegushi Distributes Gas Cylinders To Subjects In Ikate

Over  200 households got free gas cylinders in  Ikate/Elegushi , Lagos state on Sunday, they were beneficiaries  of the  ‘Trash for Gas,’ an environmental sustainability initiative of Oba Saheed Elegushi Foundation.

Team@orientactualmags.com learned  that the programme which was organized in partnership with Smart Gas  is designed to  help maintain environmental cleanliness and sustainable society.

Addressing the beneficiaries, Chief Executive Officer, Smart Gas, Dr. Yinka Opeke, said the campaign will help  to promote the use of cooking gas as a safer alternative to kerosene, firewood and charcoal.

‘We are educating you on the importance of living in a cleaner and healthier environment.

The use of firewood and charcoal for cooking not only impacts our environment negatively due to the emissions but also your health because of the smoke inhaled mostly by women and children.

We pitched this campaign to the Oba and he has deemed it fit to bring it to your doorsteps and that is why, today, he has funded these cylinders.

We will be exchanging your trash for our gas cylinders, thereby leaving you with a healthier and cleaner neighbourhood.

I implore you to please make good use of these cylinders’  Opeke said.

In his remarks, Chief Olalekan Bakare, the Aro Oba of Ikate/Elegushi,  said Oba Saheed  has always shown interest when it comes to issue of climate change, especially in his domain.

‘Cooking with wood is not healthy again, it is not the way forward. It is cleaner cooking with gas.

Oba Elegushi will continue to support anything for a sustainable economy and we will continue to talk  about the importance of keeping the environment clean’ he said.

Also speaking, the Managing Director of the Lagos state Waste Management Authority, Mr. Muyiwa Gbadegesin, lauded the initiative, saying that it would save the environment-Team@orientactualmags.com Do you have any information you wish to share with us? Do you want us to cover your event or programme? Kindly send SMS to 08059100286, 09094171980. Thank you