Clean-up Nigeria’s report, armchair rating – Osun govt

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Clean-up Nigeria’s report, armchair rating – Osun govt

Osun state government has dismissed as ‘lazy armchair mischief,’ a report by Clean-up Nigeria, a non-governmental organisation that rated Osun as one of the three dirtiest state in the country.

In a statement by the state Commissioner for Information and Civic Orientation, Funke Egbemode, on Wednesday, she called on members of the public to disregard the report, as it did not reflect the situation in Osun.

Egbemode said, “The Clean-up report is unclean and suspicious. The people living in Osun know the truth and we implore them to see the report for what it is, the handiwork of mischievous clout-chasers seeking public acceptance and relevance by any means.

“One wonders which Osun State the report was rating. Is it this same Osun where Ifedayo Local Government is the only local government in the entire South-West that is Open Defecation Free, and among the 61 local governments out of 774 in Nigeria that have been certified Open Defecation Free?

“Is it this same Osun that has a functional Waste Management Agency that ensures safe waste disposal?

“This is a state that has a sanitation team among its Osun Youth Empowerment Scheme with a mandate to ensure cleanliness of streets, towns and cities across the state on a daily basis. One can’t help but wonder how these details escaped Clean-up Nigeria in their sweeping generalization.

“If only the sponsors of the report had invested the necessary empirical undertaking to appraise the environmental status of Osun, they would have delivered a balanced and credible report.”

The government reiterated its commitment to continue to do everything to improve the quality of lives of residents of the state irrespective of distractions from those who are grabbing at straws to keep their political relevance afloat.