Sterling Bank’s Staffers Join LAWMA To Clean Streets

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Sterling Bank’s Staffers Joins Street sweepers

From Benjamin A Ameh, Lagos

Sterling Bank Plc management adopted a new strategy as part of the bank’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives, focuses on environmental sustainability, a clean environment and provisions of good health among the citizens.

The aims at promoting this exercise, outside provision of brand kits to high way managers in Lagos over years, has joined a wind of change to includes its workforces at the weekend seen carried out a nationwide environmental cleaning as part of the bank’s “Sterling Environmental Makeover” (#STEM) series.

In Lagos, the exercise saw the workers in collaboration with officials of the Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) cleaning a section of the famous Ladipo spare parts market on Oshodi Apapa Expressway to the delight of the traders, who also joined in the exercise.

According to the source, the exercise went on simultaneously in other locations include Ochanja Area at Anambra; Agodi Gate, Ibadan; Durumi Abuja; Bata market Kano; Elelenwo Akpaja road Port Harcourt and Behind Ogbogonogo Market Delta.

The source further disclosed that in other locations, the workers undertook the exercise, which many of them said was a great avenue for them to make a difference.

The bank promised to extend the initiative to other parts of the country in subsequent editions. Other states included in the scheme are Kaduna, Delta, Ogun and Enugu.

The Executive Director, Finance & Strategy of the bank, Abubakar Suleiman, while response to media at the event, said the bank started the exercise in 2013 in furtherance of its core purpose of enriching lives.

Suleiman added that the bank would continue to engage in initiatives that promote a healthy environment, especially those that promote healthy living through its renowned partnership with relevant government agencies.

His words: “What we are doing is all about impacting our environment positively. We want to keep on doing the small things, while we plan for the big, audacious ones. Each time you reach out to a child, mentor a troubled teen or join street sweepers to clean the street, you are part of an unstoppable force to make our country a better place and that is what we want to achieve with this exercise.”

As part of its campaign designed to ensure a clean environment, the bank has on a yearly basis in the last five years donated 25,000 units of reflective kits to LAWMA for street sweepers and highway managers.  The Managing Director of LAWMA, Tunde Oresanya at the presentation of kits to the highway managers and sweepers lauded the bank for being a major partner in the authority’s success story.


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