Kwara declares war on open defecation

Date: 2019-12-01

Kwara State government has launched prototypes of Integrated Modern Public Toilet in Ilorin, the state capital.

The governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, said the move is in consonance with the global consensus that open defecation must be ended by 2025. Currently, Nigeria occupies a regrettable position at the top of the list of countries with high incidence of open defecation. The North Central zone, where Kwara is, is today the epicentre of open defecation in Nigeria.

With this disturbing records in mind, AbdulRazaq last August 2019 gave an approval for the Ministry of Environment and Forestry to build Integrated Modern Public Toilets in deserving areas of Ilorin metropolis.

According to the Convener Kwara Youth Centre, Kayode Oyin-Zubair, a community of young professionals that partnered the ministry of environment to build three prototypes, the foresight of the governor will help in meeting the 2025 target.

"Governor AbdulRazaq has promised that before his government will begin any enforcement at stamping out open defecation, he would have provided befitting and standard toilet facilities in strategic places in the state. Water and sanitation are central to healthy living. We can only have hygienic environment when human and other forms of waste are properly disposed," he said.

The prototypes are built to be self-sustaining with their own source of energy serviced by underground water. There are bath and toilet wares on both male and female wings making a total of 10 rooms in each facility. Shops are built at the front and on the sides, to generate revenue for the maintenance of the facility.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Ayo Opadokun     Shuaib Abdulkadir     Old Oyo     Abdullahi Imam Abdullahi     Binta Abubakar Mora     Vasolar     Moshood Bakare     Tafida     Alfa Modibo Belgore     Ben Duntoye     David Oyerinola Adedunmoye     CCEPE     Kwara State Health Insurance Agency     Oluranti Idowu     Abubakar Suleiman     Olofa Of Offa     Shuaib Jawondo     M.Y. Abdulrahaman     Abdulwaheed Musa     Ola Falade     Abdulkadir Bolakale Sakariyah     Waziri Yakubu Gobir     KW-GIS     Valsolar-Kwara Company Limited     Yusuf A. Usman     Popo-Igbonna     Christian Association Of Nigeria     AbdulRazaq Jiddah     Otuka     Adebara     Yekeen Alabi     Oko-Olowo     Javed Khan     Chief Of Staff     Garba Ado Sanni     AGILE Programme     Tunde Akanbi     Sidikat Uthman Ajibola     Sayomi     Mamman Saba Jibril     Odogun Olushola Gabriel     Saadatu Modibbo-Kawu     Pilgrims Board     National Pilot     Akande Idowu Ayoola Muhammed     Elerin Of Erin-Ile     Abioye Bello     Sheikh Alimi     Ilesha Gwanara Road     Ganiyu Abolarin     Eghe Igbinehi     Salihu S. Yaru     Muhammad Mustapha Suleiman     Bello Oyedepo     Press Release     Gobir Organization Foundation     Ezekiel Yissa Benjamin     Academic Staff Union Of Universities     Nurudeen Mohammed     Folashade Omoniyi     Olokoba Abdullahi Ayinla     COVID     Wale Oladepo     Offa     Abdulmumini Sanni Jawondo     Mutawali     Sodiya     Olupako     Kaiama     Orisa Bridge     Kwara Hotel     Olusegun Adeniyi     Ilorin General Hospital     Makama Of Kaiama     Kunbi Titiloye     Sambo Murtala     KWTV    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Local Government Pension Board     Code Of Conduct Bureau     James Kolo     Trade Lenda SME Fair     Oba Of Jebba     Salman Jawondo     Amina El-Imam     Ibrahim Agboola Gambari     Salihu Jibril Garbi     Kwara State Sports Commission     Isaac Aderemi Kolawole     Aminu Ado Bayero     Odogun Olushola Gabriel     Ekiti     Saad Belgore     Adamu B. Yaqubu     Moshood Kashimawo Abiola     Ilorin Descendants Progressive Union     Justina Oha     Adam Abdullahi Al-Ilory     Sobi FM     Hassan Taiye Salam     KW-GIS     Ilorin International Airport     Erubu Oba Zubair     Kwara State Printing And Publishing Corporation     Orisa Bridge     Yusuf Zulu-Gambari     Kawu     George Funsho Adebayo     Tunji Ajanaku     John Olobayo     Kwara State Government     Abdulrazak Shehu Akorede     Hijab     Samuel Adedoyin     Tunde Kazeem     Onikijipa     Rashidi Yekini     Ajia-Bako     Shoprite     Geri-Alimi Split Diamond Interchange     Fola Consultant     Fareedah Dankaka     Maimunat Oloriegbe     Diagnostic Centre     Bayer Nigeria Limited     Abiodun Oyedepo     Apaokagi     Mohammed Katsina Ahmed     Adesoye     Tunji Oyawoye     Kwara State Television (KWTV)     Ayo Opadokun     Razaq Ayobami Akanbi     Countryside Emerging Leaders Fellowship     Alapado     Ilorin Curfew     Salman Suleiman     AbdulGafar Tosho     Olayinka Are     Alore     Tunji Arosanyin     Katibi Ibraheem Adeola     Federal Polytechnic Offa     Hameed Oladipupo Ali     Abdulmumini Jawondo     Iyiola Oyedepo     Amosa     Deji Ajani     Ojuekun     Kolawole Bashirat     Mohammed Abdulahi     Hauwa Nuru     Leke Ogungbe     Road Transport Employers Association Of Nigeria     Olosi Of Osi