In a bid to end open defecation by 2025, Kwara State Government has secured a donation of 1000 pour flush toilets from private sector stakeholders, Nature News gathered.
The state governor, Mallam AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq announced this on Monday in Ilorin while declaring open a public lecture to mark the 2020 World Toilet Day.
AbdulRazaq, who was represented by the state Commissioner for Health, Dr Rasaq Raji, said that the gesture of the stakeholders working to end open defecation would support the effort of the state to end the practice soon.
He asserted that the present administration in the state had demonstrated a total commitment to this course with the completion and inauguration of some prototyped integrated modern public toilets in 2019.
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This, he said, would be spread across all local government areas in the state in an effort to uphold good hygiene in the state.
“This event again affords us the opportunity of reviewing our journey on sanitation with a view to strengthening our campaign on global effort to end open defecation by 2025.
“Kwara cannot afford to be left behind in this noble course. This administration has demonstrated a total commitment to this goal by completing and commissioning some prototype of integrated modern public toilets in 2019.
“We plan to spread this gesture across the local government areas of the state. I am glad to announce that our efforts have paid off as private sector stakeholders working to end open defecation are to build 1000 pour flush toilets in Kwara to support what we are doing.
“We are indeed very grateful to them while pledging to step up our effort to end open defecation in our state and uphold good hygiene