Minister of Water Resources, Mr Suleiman Adamu, has called on state governments to key into the Open Defecation-Free Roadmap to promote sanitation and hygiene in the country. Nigeria has a Roadmap for Ending Open Defecation by 2025, with a goal for every Nigerian to have access to safely managed sanitation and attain 100 per cent coverage of improved sanitation nationally. He said that it was saddening and ‘scandalous’ that only nine local governments had been declared Open Defecation Free (ODF), out of the 774 nationally. “We have too many paper works, and less action, we want to start seeing more actions, especially in the states, we want to see that quantum leap toward ending open defecation. Since inception, the group has been able to facilitate and validate open defecation communities.

Source: Nigerian Tribune January 30, 2019 18:45 UTC