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World Environment Day: Environmental Activist Advocates Huge Tax For Companies Engaged In Pollution
An environmental activist and Director, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), Nnimmo Bassey, has advocated huge taxation for companies involved in pollution of the environment
Bassey who made this submission in Benin on Monday at the organisation’s 2023 School of Ecology on Arts and Culture, described Nigeria as a “difficult environment”, hence everyone must embark on advocacy for safe environment.
HOMEF’s June 2023 School of Ecology on Arts and Culture was held to commemorate this year’s World Environment Day and also to broadening communities understanding of causes of Climate Change.
He added: “There is no reason why the big companies polluting our environment should go without paying a big tax for their pollution.
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“We have a duty, which is inescapable, to advocate for a safe and clean environment where people can live in dignity to develop and grow their potentials.
“We also have a duty to inform policies and to advocate for policy changes.”
Emphasizing the fact that a safe environment is right of the people according to Africa Chartered for People and Human Rights, the environmental activist lamented that in spite of the damage caused to the environment, companies into pollution are having their ways because of their influence in the society.
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He said: “This is the only way you can have a healthy people; and without a healthy people, you can’t have a healthy workforce.
“If we want to have Nigeria working again, we need to have healthy people in a clean environment.
” What this companies are doing is, If the world eventually moves away from using petrol, diesel and the rest, this industry wants to make sure the world stays with plastic to keep their production alive, all for profits. They don’t really care about the safety of the environment; the safety of our biodiversity or the lives of citizens. As long as they can make money and keep their business going, they are okay,” he added.
He, therefore, called on the new government in Nigeria to “begin to think of the environment in differ way with a view to changing the narrative.”
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On his part, a cartoonist with a newspaper, Mike Asukwo said “the way forward is that the advocacy should be more vocal; should be more stronger and more persistence. We need to keep speaking to the issues.”
He continued: “We should do everything possible to draw government attention to the dangers of climate change. We should be more conscious of how we treat our environment; how we treat waste.”
This month edition of School of Ecology also featured poetry, drama, etc, in telling stories of dangers in climate change.
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