Sterling Bank takes environmental sanitation to communities in Ekiti

As part of the efforts to raise the aesthetics of Ado Ekiti and prevent breakout of epidemic, Sterling Bank Plc has begun a period environmental sanitation exercise in the Ekiti State capital to shore up cleanliness in the town.

The bank mobilised its staff to the streets of Ado Ekiti to maintain cleanliness, during which ditches and other dirt-prone areas along Oja Oba Market were cleaned up.

Speaking during the exercise which lasted for three hours at the weekend, the bank’s Regional Manager (South West), Mr Abiodun Tomomero, said the programme was part of the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of the bank to the people of the state.

Tomomero, who said the programme is taking place in 14 states of the federation, added that the bank would also intervene in other critical sectors like education and tourism to boost the state’s human capital development as well as shoring up the resources accruing to Ekiti.

He said the bank had demonstrated its corporate obligation to the state by building an ultra-modern e-Library at the College of Education, Ikere Ekiti, saying the facility is now being enjoyed by the staff of the College and workers of the state civil service.

“We have to make our environment clean. We should not rely on government alone to do everything, because this may bring about  breakout of diseases. We are operating in Ekiti and this constitutes part of our noble contributions to this state.”

Another top executive of the bank, Mr Olatunji Adeyemi, disclosed that all the staff of the bank are partaking in the exercise, adding that the programme will create awareness among the people on the need to accord the issue of sanitation a priority.

The General Manager, Ekiti State Waste Management Agency, Mr Olajide Borode, said every area suspected to be prone to breakout of epidemic diseases within the state capital were being fumigated at regular interval by the agency.

Borode appealed to the people of the state to stop sabotaging government’s efforts at making Ekiti clean by refraining from indiscriminate refuse disposal and deposition of sewages inside canals and ditches.