AfriPulse
September 13, 2025 September 13, 2025
By Chuks Oyema-Aziken
Former Senator for Ondo North district, Prof. Robert Ajayi Boroffice has challenged youths to partner with the Government to ensure pure and sanitized environment.
Prof. Boroffice gave the advise on Friday in Abuja at the award night to commemorate 10th anniversary of Chanja Datti Recycling Company Limited.
Prof. Boroffice who is the father of the Founder/CEO of Chanja Datti, Funto said waste recycling is an avenue to create employment and bring youths out of poverty.
He said “The United Nations is very particular about environment. And environment has many components. One of the very vital components of environment is getting rid of waste.
“The federal government will be very, very pleased with any organization that is involved in this very important exercise in ensuring that we have a very pure and sanitized environment.
He commended Ms. Funto for grooming Chanja Datti to its present enviable global status.
“All we’re doing is to support her with prayers. And by her nature, in her DNA, she’s very hardworking.
“And she has used every opportunity available to her to continue to grow the company, to even diversify, and also, most importantly, to contribute to national development in terms of providing employment for people, and also contributing to the education of youth, especially children who have not had the opportunity to go to school.
“And of course, as an ambassador of Nigeria, many, many fora which she has represented Nigeria through her company.
Head of Strategy and Innovation at Chanja Datti Ltd., Gabriel Onyebuolise said the organisation is looking at expanding, creating impact for both the environment and for people.
He said the organisation gave out awards and recognized partners for their support over the years
“We’re always creating new projects. And one of the most exciting things is that we’ve been able to achieve decentralizing collection of plastic waste. Now, we’re going to be transitioning to decentralizing recycling.
“Meaning, we want recycling to happen at source, not just collection. And beyond that, we’re also looking forward to move up the value chain, creating even finished, valuable materials, plastic products, from the recyclables we collect, and more exciting, producing polymer threads. These are just exciting journeys.
“We have recycling hubs in Abuja, up to 20 of those recycling hubs, positioned close to residential areas. We also have our mobile application, utilizing technology in our collection scheme. We integrate working with informal sector, by working with aggregators as well.
“So these are the various means we aggregate and collect materials, which are then processed at our factory in Area 1, Durumi, and our biggest factory now that can process up to 400 tons monthly in Giri.”
Some staff of Chanja Datti also received long service award at the event which held at the Musa Yar Adua Centre, Central Area.
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