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United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF has revealed that presently, no fewer than 120 million people in the country lack access to improved sanitation facilities, a situation that exposes them to public health hazards.
The UNICEF’s Chief Officer in charge of Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), Kannan Nadar, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja. He said the country needed an investment of N850b for households to construct 25 million toilets by 2025.
According to him, reaching the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) target on sanitation requires us to multiply our current efforts by 15.
“Such situations could be reduced with proper hygiene promotion messages,” he said.
He added that, “14,000 Nigerian communities have attained open defecation free status within the eight years of its intervention via the Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) Programme.”