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Lagos: Traders decry open defecation at Gatankowa Market

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September 9, 2019
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Some of the traders at Gatan Kowa Market in Lagos State had decried  the rate high rate of open defecation around  the market owing to lack of toilet facilities.
They told the News Agency of Nigeria that if the unhygienic situation is not arrested, it could lead to an outbreak of epidemic for traders and buyers patronising the market.
They appealed to the Lagos State Government to provide public toilet facilities to curb such unhealthy act in and around the market.
The market popular for displaying fairly-used materials is situated along the Lagos-Abeokuta Express road  in Agbado Oke-Odo Local Council Development Area of Lagos State.
The traders told NAN that the persistent level of open defecation at the market was making them to lose most of their customers.
Pastor Adedoyin Adebambo, the leader at the LEOREM section of the market, popularly called Katangowa, told NAN that the lack of public toilets there had posed a lot of challenges to the operators.
He said: “We face the challenge of open defecation at the market environment due to lack of public toilets.
“People defecate around the area indiscriminately which has been posing a great challenge to business activities in the market.
“We appeal to the LASG to come to our aid by providing adequate public toilets to ensure proper hygiene in the market.’’
Joke Abdullahi, a trader at the market and a seller of fairly-used clothes, also appealed to the government to provide toilet facilities so as to keep the market environment clean.
Abdullahi said the toilet facility when provided   would ensure adequate hygiene and thereby curb possible epidemic in the market.
Another trader, Wunmi Ajose, a dealer in teenagers’ wears, also told NAN that lack of public toilets in the markets had begun to affect both the traders and customers.
According to her, customers are always in a hurry to leave the market for lack of restroom whenever they come for shopping.
Sunday Fashina, a dealer in school bags, begged the government to assist the traders by providing the toilets to improve on the current standard of the market.
He said: “A good and standard market is measured by the type of facilities enclosed; this is a big market, government should come to our aid and improve our standard by providing standard toilets for traders.’’
NAN reports that the Minister of Water Resources, Suleiman Adamu, had advocated Public Private Partnership initiative to end open defecation in the country.
Adamu made the appeal at the sideline of a One-Day Inter-Ministerial Dialogue on Sanitation on April 26 in Abuja.
He noted that there was the need for collaborative efforts by all stakeholders to end open defecation practice in the country.
He said: “We are not saying that government alone should provide public toilets.
“We are saying that the private sector can look for a land and the government should facilitate how the private sector can acquire such in the town or in the market (place) and build there a toilet facility, or a water facility, combined with the sanitation facility.
“So, it is a joint effort between the Federal Government, states, business communities, development partners and everybody.”

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