Community Agenda For Peace (CAP), a Non Governmental Organisation, NGO, is planning to celebrate Nigerian Independence with Lagos Beach Marathon on September 29 at the Alpha–Lekki Beach.

Phillips Obuesi, the Spokesman for the organisation said that CAP is hosting the event to celebrate Nigeria’s 52nd Independence anniversary as well as use it as an advocacy vehicle to draw attention to the challenges of ocean erosion along the Lagos shoreline while promoting beach marathon as a sports to drive tourism.

“We have tagged this year’s event “Green Independence” as a demand for freedom for biodiversity and improved relations between the Nigerian and his immediate socio-political, cultural and economic environment.

We want to use the Beach Marathon as a strong and effective platform for awareness and finding solutions to ocean erosion, flooding, desertification and gully erosion which currently represent the many ecological challenges facing Nigerians”.