An Environmentalist and Chief Executive Officer of Greenplinth Africa Limited, Dr Olawale Akinwumi, has disclosed that over 180 million Nigerians lack access to clean Cookstoves.
Akinwumi made this known during the project implementation Retreat themed Clean cooking access in Africa: Leaving no one behind, held on Tuesday in Lagos.
The project, launched recently in Lagos, was designed to distribute 80 million highly efficient improved fuel woodstoves for free to women, low-income earners, poor families, and households across Nigeria, thereby drastically reducing the level of traditional firewood consumption during cooking to over 90 per cent.
He added that this figure makes it 950 Africans with no access to clean cooking; hence, the journey for the delivery of clean cooking technologies.
The CEO explained that the 80 million Clean Cookstoves Project involved the procurement, pre-fabrication, assembly and inaugurating of highly efficient fuel wood cookstoves as well as awareness and sensitisation campaigns and training of users mainly in households across the 36 States of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Federal Capital Territory.
The expert noted that women and children are particularly affected by a lack of access to clean and efficient cooking.
“More than 950 million Africans lack access to clean cooking, adding that out of the figure, over 180 million Nigerians are counted.
“As we all know, women and children are mostly at the receiving end when we talk of lack of access to clean and efficient cooking.
“Hence, the definite journey for a determined and uncompromising delivery of clean and efficient cooking technologies for women and households in Nigeria and Africa,” Akinwumi said.
Meanwhile, he assured that the stoves would get to the right people.
“I am assuring you the right people will get these, and that is why we have set up the project advisory board and all other necessary people to bring this goal to fruition,” he said.
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