So yesterday I joined my family away from family (winners coppers lodge) in cleaning the environment and then I realised that environmental sanitation is as important as any other community development service...because it brings people together as well as help in promoting a healthy society free from all forms of diseases and infections. **According to the **World Health Organisation ( W.H.O) an estimated amount of 12.6 million people die each year due to living in an unhealthy environment...this issue has become so critical that every 18th of August each year is declared world's portable sanitation day so as to reduce the death rate caused by this pandemic to a minimal level
Also according to the Vanguard Nigeria in an aticle titled **ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION: THE ONLY LEGACY BUHARI RETURNS TO MEET edited by Oghene Omonisa
..It was stated clearly and I quote The uniqueness of the day is not peculiar to any town or state. It is a nationwide thing. And it is not just any other Saturday. It is the last Saturday of the month, a day set aside by the Federal Government for Nigerians to sanitize their environment between 7am and 10am. During this period, movement is restricted. This practice has been ongoing for 34 years, since March 1984. That was when the 3-month-old military government of Major General Muhammadu Buhari enacted its War Against Indiscipline (WAI) law by military decree. Environmental Sanitation was a part of the WAI law...And on Environmental Sanitation Day, WAI officials went round to enforce the movement restriction order and to ensure that citizens cleaned their environments, and mobile courts tried offenders who broke the law, where various fines and corporal punishments were meted out. Though, initially, many Nigerians considered the enforcement of the Environmental Sanitation law to be militant, the results were eventually generally appreciated as Nigerians suddenly began to imbibe the culture of cleanliness and discipline
Futhermore, it is an open secret to say that majority of the people who are together in this 21st century met at one social function or the other....imagine a world where people come together irrespective of their different individualities, colour or language to engage in community development service and as such meet people who become part of their entire life...
The place of unity and togetherness can also not be underrated because once people can work together they can live together and as well walk towards developing the community together...
Finally, i want to appeal to us all that we should participate in community development services whenever we have the opportunity to so as to protect our society from various hazards as well as promote unity and togetherness in our society, community, nation as well as reaching out to the wolrd at large.