By Esther Mark, Gift Nwachukwu & Utibe-Abasi Okon
The Vice-Chancellor, University of Jos Professor Hayward Mafuyai has charged students to embrace clean habits on campus to create an environment conducive for learning.
Prof. Mafuyai stated this during the launch of a “Campaign for Cleanliness” at the institution’s Naraguta Hostel.
He said as a public health scientist, it was his deepest wish to promote public health on campus through sensitization on personal hygiene.
He re-iterated that the gesture was also in view of the National Universities Commission’s unscheduled accreditation visit, which also involves assessment of environmental safety and hygiene of institutions of learning in the country.
The vice-chancellor stressed that part of the policy of his administration is to see that the University stands out in Nigeria and Africa for her aesthetic beauty and overall level of cleanliness in no distant time.
In her remark, the chairperson of Partnership with Students Hajiya Hauwa Garba, said the effort is geared toward inculcating cleanliness habit among students especially those living in the hostels as well as the University community at large.
The chairperson disclosed that refuse disposal bins have been kept in strategic locations to enforce constant message of cleanliness.
Also speaking a member of the JCPC, Professor Kirian Ekpeyong said keeping the environment clean entails appreciating nature and that nature could not be appreciated with refuse littered all over hence the need to keep our environment clean.
The Students’ Union President, Comrade Aluta Nantok expressed delight for the initiative by PWS, stressing that it will go a long way in improving the beauty of the university.
During the campaign, billboards with the logo ‘Keep Unijos Clean’ were mounted by Partnership with Students (PWS) an intervention of the Jos-Carnegie Partnership Committee (JCPC), in collaboration with the Students Union Government.
