Open Defecation: 50 Per Cent Of Nigerian Schools Need Toilets, Says Govt - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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June 28, 2019
TheFederal Capital Territory Water Board has said that about 50 per cent ofprimary and secondary schools in the country need to be provided with toiletfacilities in order to tackle the open defecation menace.
Theboard noted that Ekiti, Plateau, Oyo, Nasarawa and Cross River States areendemic in the open defecation practice, putting children at risk of diarrhoeaand other diseases.
TheFCT board added that the toilets’ provision was necessary as around 87,000children below five die in Nigeria annually from diarrhoea.
Theboard Head of Rural Water Supply and Sanitation, Mohammed Dan-Hassan statedthese at a lecture organised by the Nigerian Institution of Water Engineers.
Thelecture was to mark the inauguration of its fifth National Chairman, AboladeLawal.
Dan-Hassansaid, “A healthy child does well in learning than a sick child. Stuntedchildren are admitted late and are less intelligent.