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By Amos Odeh, Yenagoa
A non-governmental organization, Stakeholders Alliance for Corporate Accountability (SACA), has donated notebooks and t-shirts to the Bayelsa State Ministry of Education for distribution to students in both public and private schools in the state.
Making the donation to the commissioner for Education, Dr Gentle Emelah, in Yenagoa, the SACA’s executive director, Kingsley Ozegbe, explained that the materials were donated to consolidate on the campaigns against environmental hazards.
Ozegbe noted that the NGO will continue to enlighten pupils and students in primary and secondary schools in a bid to deepen their awareness of dangers associated with exposure to oil spills on the environment and human health.
He said it was not the first time SACA is giving out branded books and t-shirts to students, noting that last year, the NGO collaborated with the Bayelsa State ministries of Education, Environment and Health, as well as the Catholic Education Board and NAPPS, to enlighten students on effects of oil spills on environment and humans.
The executive director assured that the NGO will continue to contribute to healthy, societal development especially given the considerable cooperation from the Ministry of Education, adding that last year Dr Imelah directed schools where SACA established Child Safeguarding clubs, to allow their students wear the SACA branded environmental campaign t-shirts to school once a week to broaden public awareness on ills linked to high exposure to crude oil.
Receiving the donations, the commissioner for Education, Dr Emelah, who was represented by his senior aide, Princewill Osobirigo, commended SACA for the gesture, assuring that the notebooks and t-shirts would be distributed to students of the state to fast track the campaign against oil spills in order to promote a safer society.
Emelah added that the donations would reinforce the earlier campaigns against oil spillages in the Niger Delta region, promising to distribute the books and t-shirts to pupils and students of schools in the state.
Our correspondent reports that the materials donated by Stakeholders Alliance for Corporate Accountability (SACA) were funded by Misean Cara of the Republic of Ireland and St. Patrick Missionary Society.
