We live in a society where almost everyone believes that following the norm is the right way to do things , that mentality should be trashed!
We wake up to messed up roads , gutters ... environment , why? Is it becaue we are ignorant or rathe, because we choose to be ignorant of what a dirty environment does to us.
We are too used to being dirty and disorderly and yet , we envy the ‘’AMERICANS’’ calling their cities ‘’BEAUTIFUL’. Now let me ask , would you call it beautiful if you saw litters of everything on the roads and in the gutters ? The air there is said to be ‘’FRESH’’ , now tell me , would it be so if they poured out the dirty water used to either wash the dishes etc unto the roads?
You think it’s magic? NO! They worked towards it , so you see , we are the cause of our problems.
It won’t take us anything to properly dispose our wastes. I thought doing the right thing should give us a certain level of satisfaction and joy ... and someone would tell me that keeping the environment clean is the work of the government , must we expect everything to be done for us? Even the little we can do ourselves? We need to wake up!
The gutters are not trash cans , the roads were not constructed to be littered! And i see people disposing things into the rivers claiming ‘’ the river flows , it will carry it away’’ , excuse me , where is it carryng it to?
It’s a chain , it comes back to us!
Let me leave the adverse effect it has on our health for another day.
We need to wake up i say!
Let’s stop wishing and start doing!
The change we wish for isn’t farfetched all it takes is a change in our menality and a will to achieve something.
CLEANINESS THEY SAY IS NEXT TO GODLINESS , A GOOD ENVIRONMENT IS OBTAINABLE!
Written By:
Jennifer Odumegwu.
