 17 September every year is marked as World Cleanup Day and as Nigeria joins the rest of the world to mark the day, conversations are being directed and redirected towards citizens paying more attention to their environment and making every day a World Cleanup Day. Briefing journalists in Lagos, the president of the Clearing Professionals Association of Nigeria, Dr. Tunde Iyer, submitted that poor community hygiene is a huge contributor to infant mortality. He however stressed the need for more citizens' participation and government advocacy to the public to make every day a Cleanup Day. We just have a very dirty environment. Unfortunately, you may be as clean as clean is. If your environment is dirty, then it affects all of us. And we can see it in the number of our young people that are dying. So one of the reasons why we believe that the clean and hygiene sector needs to take a little bit more center stage is that it's a lot cheaper to keep our environments clean and avoid children from falling sick, being out of school because of sick days or even dying from communicable diseases just by ensuring that every day is World Cleanup Day. Ensuring that your personal space is clean and the immediate perimeter of your space is clean. If we are all committed to that as citizens, then we also might have something to hold our government more accountable to. The program director Inara George calls for constant education of the public on how to manage their waste. It's not just having us as stakeholders. We need to educate these people on the waste being generated. Again, we are setting up an institution to professionalize the entire cleaning system whereby we will train people. So this is just saying education. You need to understand the waste being generated and how to dispose of it within your day to day activities. Because, yes, you will engage cleaning services from morning through evening, but what happens at night? How do you dispose at night? How do you keep ready to be properly disposed? How do you separate your waste?