Mikano donates 30 corner shops, sanitary tools to aid sanitation officers in Lagos CBD

Mikano International Ltd., a major player in the power plant generation in Nigeria recently donated sanitary tools to the Lagos Central Business District (CBD) sanitation officers, to boost sanitation in the area with distribution of corner shops to traders and a further promise to employ 10 sanitation officers within the Lagos CBD at the commissioning of market sanitation corps, taskforce.

The donation follows Mikano’s commitment to boosting environmental sanitation within the Lagos Island CBD, which witnesses a daily transaction of various businesses and trading in millions.

Mikano through its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has keyed into the development vision of the state government through partnership, by providing 30 corner shops for petty street traders along Marina and Broad Street and employing market sanitation officers with necessary kits to ensure constant clean environment on the Lagos Island Central Business Districts.

AkinwunmiAmbode, Lagos State Governor, said his administration is committed to fast tracking the vision of turning Lagos State in to an enviable mega city, a role model not only to other states of the federation but also to other mega cities in the world.

The Governor who was represented by AgboolaDabiri, Special Adviser to the Lagos State Government on CBD, said, “This effort he said is aimed at ensuring even development of the state by improving of doing business, which calls for removal of street trading with its attendant risk to human life and dirty environment, and replacing same with modernized way of trading that ensures constant clean environment, which would be a boost to businesses in the CBD”.

Ibrahim Ibrahim, Mikano’sMD, Said: “It is a great honour, on behalf of the Chairman and the entire management of Mikano International Limited to be presenting these 30 Corner shops to the Lagos State Government, Central Business District (CBD) in support of the present administration’s ‘Cleaner Lagos Initiative’ (CLI) Project”.

According to him, Ambode has so far demonstrated by words and action that he is committed to achieving a greener and cleaner Lagos. “To this effect, Mikano also provided sanitation tools and two (2) year salary of 10 sanitation workers in support of government’s vision and as part of our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR),” he concludes.

JOHN SALAU