Federal Government says the Clean Nigeria: Use the Toilet campaign is aimed toward building the populace for a new culture of safe defecation in the country.
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A Consultant Gynaecologist, Dr. Raphael Olanrewaju, has called for the imprisonment of persons contaminating the environment by engaging in open defecation.
In a layman term, open defecation is the human practice of defecating outside rather than into a toilet. Of course, there are too many risks attendant on this awful practice.
Luther made the disclosure on Thursday in Jos during a sensitisation programme organised by the National Orientation Agency on preventing health risks and environmental hazards caused by torrential rainfall.
Adeleke, a retired nurse, who charges N20 for urinating, N50 for bathing and N50 for defecating, narrated that the pastor came to use her bathroom and toilet when he had already defecated on his body and his clothes already wet.
The Federal Government and the United Nations Children Fund have said they will engage the media in the Clean-up Nigeria Campaign towards eradicating open defecation in the country.
The United Nations Children Fund says it is partnering with the Federal Government in tackling open defecation in the country.
The National Bureau of Statistics says average of 24.4 per cent of households in the country still practice open defecation.
Ekiti State Government on Tuesday said it had arrested four people who failed to provide toilets in their residences.
Suleiman Adamu, the Minister of Water Resources, says an executive order is needed to end open defecation in the country.
The Federal Ministry of Water Resources and its partners have inaugurated the Clean Nigeria Website to signal commencement of Open Defecation-free campaign.
Adamu, who made the call at the News Agency of Nigeria Forum in Abuja, said it became necessary following continuous practice of open defecation in parts of the country.
Engr. David Wuyep, the Plateau State Commissioner for Water Resources and Energy, has cautioned residents of the state against indiscriminate open defecation.
The Chairman of the group, Emmanuel Awe, at its monthly meeting in Abuja on Friday, said noted that this was part of efforts to make Nigeria Open Defecation-free by 2025.
The Abuja Environmental Protection Board says total compliance to environmental rules is key to ending open defecation in Nigeria.
The campaign comes on the heels of a recent report indicting Nigeria as the second worse country in the world after India that still practices Open Defecation.
Kadilli stated that the meeting was part of efforts to support 250 million people globally to abandon open defecation.
Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State on Wednesday reiterated the commitment of his administration to eradicate open defecation in the state.
Kogi State Government said it has constructed 23 public toilets in some major towns across the state as part of efforts to discourage open defecation among residents.
Awe said this in Abuja on Wednesdaywhen he received a delegation from the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council led by its Executive Director, Rolf Luyendijk.