AOLG CHAIRMAN TASKS YOUTHS ON PRODUCTIVITY
In a bid to reduce the rate of unemployment and idleness in our society, the Chairman, Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government, Hon. Musa Sheriff has tasked youths to always conceptualise ideas through their ingenuity which in no doubt will facilitate productivity.
The Executive Chairman, Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government made this declaration during the celebration of this year World Clean Up Day at St. Michaels Nursery & Pry School, Ota saying that everyone would always reckon with value added - oriented people in the society.
Hon. Musa commended the efforts of the organiser of Sam Clean Initiative, Samuel Adebayo, a 21-year-old student of National Open University who deems it fit to clean his environment without the aid of government.
According to the Chairman, Hon. Musa Sheriff, “The challenge is that people are one- sided in their thinking expecting to involve in only material things that usher in monetary gains forgetting that it is our collective responsibilities.
Olota of Ota, Oba Abdukabir Obalanlenge, represented by Onijana of Ijana-Ota, Oba Clement Olusegun Akinyemi, expressed his delight for the massive presence of youths at the occasion adding that there is assurance that youths are truly the future's leaders.
“We will try as much as possible to encourage others, older or younger ones to emulate these young ones, because the success of these youths is the success of all of us. It is high time we started thinking in the right direction. The old belief that government will do this or that for us should change. If we fall sick, is it the government that will buy paracetamol for us to get well?
“This is the time to rise to the challenges of our time, do things that will encourage good living. When we see young ones going in the right direction, we should not keep quiet, we should encourage them so that they can do more. We should not wait till they go the bad way before we start correcting them.
“We should praise them when they do good things. I will try as much as possible to educate the older ones to encourage and assist these young ones. I am sure if they call on us at any time, we will be delighted to render assistance in whatever way required from us”, the traditional ruler said.
Speaking, Comrade Ajeigbe Oluwafemi, Assistant APC Youth Leader, Ado-Odo/Ota re affirmed their confirmation as the newly elected APC youth leaders of various wards in Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area.
He added that this stuff is all over the world pledging their total supports for Sam Adebayo's initiative.
“I truly love the programme. It is such a programme that demonstrates that youths in politics are not thugs. This programme differentiates between the thugs and the Youths. My advice to the youths is they should be seen in their professional callings and stop being seen as thugs that have no means of living,we have representatives from various wards such as Iju, Ota 1, Ota 2, Ota 3 and Sango. ” the party youth leader said.
Responding, in an interview with the journalists,Adebayo Samuel, Convener of Sango Clean-Up and Founder of Sam Clean Initiative bares his mind on his new project called “Pet For Schools”:
“The initiative was borne out of my in-depth passion for cleaning up environment. When I was indoor, I was thinking of the kind of change agent or initiative I could bring to my environment for better development. So, I started to gather young ones like me who share the same passion for the environment.
“We started our cleaning up at Sango Under bridge with over 120 volunteers in 2019, to celebrate the World Clean-Up Day done in about 180 countries all over the world with over 20 million people engaged in this. We did the last clean-up at Oju-Ore with the office of the Majority Leader and C-Way company supporting us. Here we are in 2021 doing World Clean-Up Day in Ota.
“Besides, we are using this opportunity to launch a project tagged: “Pet For Schools”. This is a project targeted at turning plastic wastes to wealth, and other things you could easily throw away.
"We want to use the proceeds generated from this to help students whose parents are of low-income earners to get school materials, books, etc. for them, so that there would be no financial impediments against their struggling to get education. This year our Motto for the project is “Your Waste, Their Knowledge”.
“We want people to know that before they decide to throw away their waste, they should think of the child that does not have books, school uniform, and someone who can convert it to wealth for the child to get knowledge. This is why we are trying to brink this initiative to the environment so that people can see that these wastes are not just wastes but resources that can benefit other people.
“We are able to do this through assistance of local government authority in Ado-Odo/Ota, individuals and groups who have been assisting us morally and financially. We tried to include members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in this year World Clean-Up Day activities because they too are youths who could go to their environments and make a change after their service.
On how he got the inspiration to embark upon the initiative, Adebayo said:
“I am a Church Boy. My inspiration came from the Holy Spirit and from my experience in the church cleaning department. I advise the youths to start thinking of bringing value to their society, and engage in changes that can make their environment better.
"Because of this little thing I am doing, I was privileged to meet great and important personalities, including the Olota of Ota, Majority Leader of the state House of Assembly, the newly elected Ado-Odo/Ota Local government Chairman, Hon. Sheriff Adewale Musa, directors of some companies.
Adebayo enjoins everyone to cultivate the habit of making the environments clean at all times.
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