The Chairman Anaocha Local government Area Traditional Rulers Council Igwe Innocent Obodoakor of Agulu, says careless lifestyle can bring about untimely death.
He stated this at his palace during an advocacy visit by Social Mobilization and Technical Committee SOMTEC, a UNICEF assisted programme.
According to him ignorance of essential family practices can cause someone to fall sick and implored the committee to respond fast anytime he calls them for grassroots sensitization.
The UNICEF Mobilization Officer domiciled in the State Ministry of Information and Public Enlightenment, Mrs Chineze George-Ileka noted that UNICEF had shown appreciable presence in Anaocha Local Government Area, adding that it was the successes recorded in the area that motivated the group to move to other Local Government Areas.
The mobilization officer explained that the present outreach was aimed at intimating community leaders on the essential family practices to be promoted and unhealthy ones to be jettisoned.
A Hygiene Education Officer, Dr Rose Amasiana observed that there exist a number of hygiene methods such as personal, menstrual, food, environmental, adding that personal hygiene involved cleanliness of the body, especially the public areas.
The Programme Manager, of RUWASSA, Mr Victor Ezekwo said that they had been renovating and drilling boreholes in schools and communities but expressed dismay at high rate of theft of government facilities, and appealed to communities to take full ownership of these facilities by deploying vigilante groups to guard them.
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