Using the toilet and washing hands with soap has become a great experience for me. I grew up to see my family members defecate in the bush, but our fortunes turned around early this year when my father was able to construct a toilet using Sato Pan', said 16-year-old Faith Ede, a native of Jago in Oyo State.
Using the toilet and washing hands with soap has become a great experience for me. I grew up to see my family members defecate in the bush, but our fortunes turned around early this year when my father was able to construct a toilet using Sato Pan", said 16-year-old Faith Ede, a native of Jago in Oyo State.
However, ending open defecation is doable. Like India which was the leading country with the highest number of people defecating in the open, Nigeria can eradicate open defecation. Although the Clean Nigeria Campaign is working assiduously to improve the number of Open Defecation Free, ODF, Local Governments Areas, LGAs, in the country, statistics have shown that Nigeria needs to build not less than 3.9 million toilets annually to meet the 2025 target of open defecation.
Public places like Markets, and motor garages among others lack WASH facilities. In Mile 2 areas of Lagos, operators of trailers and tankers who are on a daily basis along Mile -Apapa expressway have turned the road into pit toilets. They now use foils popularly known as take-away plates as toilet pans. They go to the toilet in it and throw it anywhere on the road. For instance, the lack of investments in wash facilities remains a major setback in the 2025 target.
Johnson said Nigeria has a deficit of N46 billion for ODF. He regretted that most states are yet to establish WASH, in all the LGAs said Nigeria cannot continue business as usual or it will miss the target of 2025. He expressed worry that Nigeria will not be ODF by 2025 and will maintain its top rank as the country with the most number of OD people practising open defecation.The WASH Specialist further stated that open defecation spreads disease quickly and can lead to death.
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