Boulos Enterprises Limited (BEL) in conjunction with Suzuki Motor Corporation, Japan, as part of its company’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) is once again canvassing for healthy and clean environment with a visit to the Gberefun riverine community in Badagry, Lagos state. This is the ninth edition of the exercise being embarked upon by the the company that has been in operation in Nigeria for over 40 years.
In a statement signed by the management of BEL, this year’s beach clean up campaign last week during which period the company donated many clean-up items to the residents, fishermen and women of the Gberefu riverine community, BusinessDay was told told that, the move is aimed at improving the safety of the ecological system as well as reducing environmental pollution harmful to human existence which is the major reason that the initiative is being organised.
Suzuki Marine has always aimed at providing customer satisfaction along with excitement on the water in a clean and healthy environment. It was a aresult of this that Suzuki marine distributor in the country that BEL, the franchisee organised the Beach-Clean-Up- Campaign at Ilaje 2, Gberefun, Badagry.
It would be recalled that, in the past years, the corporate social responsibility exercise has been taken to other fishing communities in parts of Lagos State. In 2018, the exercise was taken to the Inagbe Beach Resort on the Lagos Island to create cleanliness awareness among the reverine populace.
Every year, the clean up campaign is carried by the staff of BEL in conjunction with the visited fishing communities in collaboration with the fishery department of the Lagos state ministry of agriculture, the ministry of environment and the general public around the reverine area where people enjoy boating and fishing exercises for the propagation of a better sanitized community in order to ensure a healthier environment.
The take-off in the five minutes boat ride by the staff of Boulos Enterprises Limited and BusinessDay reporter from the Badagry harbour point near the first one storey building located in Nigeria across the lagoon to the riverine Gberefu was an emotional reminder of the historic slave trade-off of Nigerians to the Western world during the colonial era.
The Gberefu reverine community sandwiched between the Badagry lagoon and the Lagos Ocean presents a community of migrants from different ethnic nationalities and neighbouring countries that lives in make-shift bamboo shanties without electricity, no good portable water, without visible signs of government infrastructural development. Even some of the government’s institutions have been closed down.
