Nigeria, a global leader in open defecation – UNICEF.

By Adamu Aminu.

Nigeria has taken the baton of becoming the global leader in open defecation from India.

The Kano’s representative of the United Nations Children’s Fund
(UNICEF) Stellah Terve dropped the hint today (Wednesday) during a monthly sanitary items distribution exercise at the Kano state ministry of local government

Stellar said UNICEF data shows that presently 46 million Nigerians bereft of proper toilets and latrines defecate openly mostly in rural areas.

Adding that, Kano state wasn’t an exception in this regard, whereby most schools, motor parks, and markets, lack proper restrooms for the people to ease themselves conveniently.

” That’s among the reasons why people are prone to infectious diseases such as; cholera and diarrhea, she said.

The UNICEF representative stressed that three local government areas of Kano such as Dambatta, Garko, and Wudil were open defecations-free areas. While some local governments including; Gwarzo, Minjibir, D/Kudu, Takai, Madobi, Kabo, and Bichi are currently within the parameters of working assiduously towards eradicating the menace of open defecations in Kano.

“By the virtue of the roadmap, which by the year 2025 open defecations in Nigeria would be hope get rid off, there’s need for Kano to become a kind of model of functionality amongst its counterparts,” Stella said.

The Kano UNICEF representative explains that being a development partner is proudly willing to compliment the Kano state government’s efforts to solve the menace of indiscriminate defecation ravaging openly in the state, particularly in the rural and some urban areas.

In his remark, the director in the Kano ministry of local government overseeing the aspects of Water and environmental sanitation under the acronym of W.A.S.H Alh Yahaya Nuhu Amasaye challenges the participants of the event who are the local governments Head of departments, to roll up their shirts sleeves toward complimenting state government effort in their various districts to stop the menace of open defecations in Kano.