The Jericho Metro Rotary Club, Ibadan Chapter, on Tuesday, distributed food items to eighty adhoc staff of the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, who clean the metropolitan roadsides.
While presenting the palliatives to the beneficiaries, the President, Rotary Club, Jericho Metro, Mr. Damilola Olaleye commended the Oyo State government for standing out in its efforts at maintaining and sustaining a healthy and clean environment.
He explained that its members, home and abroad, would, as always, join in partnership to cater for the less privileged in the Pace Setter state, Nigeria, and the world at large.
The Honourable Commissioner of Environment & Natural Resources, Architect AbdulMojeed Olawale Mogbonjubola, commended the leadership of the Jericho Metro Rotary Club, Ibadan for the kind gesture and partnership.
Represented by the Acting Permanent Secretary and Director of Forestry, Mr. Moradeyo Sunday, he described the gesture as being in line with the SafER program of the present administration to alleviate poverty in society.
He maintained that the act exhibited by the Rotary Club would further boost the morale of the staffers.
While responding, the recipients showered encomium on both the Jericho Metro Rotary Club and the present administration.
