It has been observed that more than forty-seven million Nigerians lack access to befitting toilet facilities in Nigerian.
The State Director, National Orientation Agency, NOA, Anambra State Directorate, Awka, Barrister Charles Nworji, made the observation while speaking at a programme in Awka on, “Ending Open Defecation in Nigerian”.
Barrister Nworji, who noted that greater percentage of Nigerians took to open defecation due to non-availability of modern toilet facilities, called on Nigerian Government at all levels to work towards increasing the number of toilet facilities in the Country, especially in Schools and Markets.
He maintained that the construction of toilet facilities in Schools and Markets across the Country would dissuade the people, especially the Students, traders and Motorists and other road users from engaging in open defecation.
The Anambra state NOA Boss, advised Government to consider the issuance of license to private individuals to operate mobile toilet facilities at strategic locations across Nigeria with a view to saving the people from embarrassment and contracting various degrees of communicable diseases, adding that Communities should equally brace up to the challenges of maintaining clean environment at all times for their healthy living.
Barrister Nworji, who said that the Agency is committed towards making sure that Anambra State is open defecation free by 2025 as prescribed by the Presidential Order through its Community Orientation and Mobilization Programmes, emphasised that Nigerian Government and the International Agencies have committed enormous resources to make the Country open defecation free by 2030 as contained in the Sustainable Development Goals.
He charged Village Heads, the Leadership of Anambra State Association of Town Unions, ASATU, and those in the private sector to join forces with Government in upholding sanitary orderliness in the State, blaming the exponential increase in the practice of open defecation in the society to the rapid population density in the Country.
Obiorah Anthony
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