The Deputy Minority Leader of the Nigerian Senate, Senator Lere Oyewumi, has called on Nigerians to desist from all forms of habit capable of causing pollution to their environment.
Oyewumi spoke in Ikire, Osun State on during the weekend while addressing newsmen on climate change and environmental hazards.
The senator, who is representing Osun West Senatorial District at the red chamber, frowned to the habit of dumping refuse and waste on waterways, stating that the “uncivilized” habit has caused many Nigerians to lose their properties while others became homeless.
He also warned Nigerians not to embark on bush burning at this period, enjoined them to seek alternative way of doing this to avoid environmental disaster.
The Senate Deputy Minority Leader said, “We have to be proactive, we have to defend our environment, people should desist from bush burning in the defense of fire. Whatever we do during this dry season will impact on raining season.
Speaking on Governor Ademola Adeleke’s N100bn infrastructural project for Osun, the lawmaker stressed that the plan can only be achieved when the government is focused and there is not extrinsic problem.
“If we have flood somewhere now, the government will be forced to deviate from its course to attend to the immediate thing which was not in it plans.”
He charged environmental department of local governments and states to commence serious monitoring program community by community saying their officers should start sensitizing the public and not wait until problem comes.
