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September 4, 2019
The Minister for Water Resources Sulieman Adamu, has urged Nigerians to take the issues of open defecation seriously as it concerns everyone.
Adamu made this call in Abuja whiledelivering a lecture on the theme: “Stopping open defecation’’ organised by theFaculty of Engineering, University of Abuja.
He said that in sub-Saharan Africa,Nigeria with the highest population has about 47 million people defecating inthe open and ranks second in the world.
He said that tackling the problem ofopen defecation in Nigeria “is everyone’s business and not for the governmentalone.’’
According to him, 86 per cent ofdisease cases are attributed to poor environmental sanitation,’’ he said.
The Director-General, InfrastructureConcession Regulatory Commission Chidi Izuwah called on the universityauthority to include a programme in the institution for students to also beenlightened on open defecation.