Miss Face of Culture Nigeria, Queen Pirinye Bristol says the occasion of this year’s World Environment Day was a good time to ask questions about critical issues affecting the environment.  

Queen Bristol said this today via a statement signed by her and her handlers, Cultural Innovation Precision and made available to Kristina Reports.   

She stated that the day should be used to accord deserving recognition and honour to the environment, stressing that this can be done by promoting awareness on the importance of how the environment is being treated.  

“I, Queen Pirinye Bristol, Face of Culture Nigeria, and my managers, Cultural Innovation Precision, celebrate the World Environment Day with the rest of world. Even as we celebrate, this is the time for us to ask questions and find answers to issues affecting our environment.”

“World Environment Day is a day intended for paying honour and recognition to the environment, pledging to keep taking care of it and promoting awareness on the importance of being kind and mindful of the way we continuously treat this environment we have been blessed with.”

The Beauty Queen who hails from Bonny in Rivers State, Nigeria, regretted that increasing challenges faced by the environment such as air pollution, climate change, and global warming, amongst others remain major unresolved issues today.  

“The vast increase in air pollution, climate change and global warming at large are major issues in our world today.”

She further raised alarm over the persistent challenge of open defecation which has remained a serious threat to the health of the people, especially in the rural areas, lamenting that this practice portends endemic dangers to public health and the environment.

“My managers and I are particularly concerned about the issue of open defecation, this has been affecting communities, particularly in rural areas, for some time.”

“Open defecation is the act of emptying bowels in public without the use of proper structures that have been designed specifically for the disposal of human waste such as toilets.”

“This act yields many problems such as increasing the likelihood of waterborne diseases, this occurs because in areas where this practice is observed, this act is commonly done near waterways.”

“This water ends up being carried into the water system without treatment, hence the contaminated water ending up inside the community’s main water source. When the people in these communities use the water it then ends up resulting in diseases such as typhoid, cholera and so on.”

She expressed her readiness and that of her managers to partner and collaborate with relevant stakeholders to create awareness about the dangers posed to the environment by these harmful practices.  

“My managers and I call on the state governments to spread awareness on our environment and do all we can to prevent these occurrences. My managers Cultural Innovation Precision and my office as the Face of Culture Nigeria is committed to work with governments at all levels, relevant agencies and organizations to spread this awareness. Thank you.”