Two states, Jigawa and Katsina, are on their way to being declared Open Defecation Free (ODF), Chief WASH Officer, United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF), Jane Beran, has said.
Beran said this on Monday, at the First Bi-annual Inter-Ministerial Dialogue on Sanitation in 2022, which was held in Abuja where ministers; Suleiman Adamu (Water Resources), Babatunde Fashola (Works and Housing), Pauline Tallen (Minister for Women Affairs) and Minister of State (Health) were present.
Already, 78 local governments have been declared free of open defecation.
According to her, while the planned national exit from being an open defecation free society was slow, “I think the progress is very good in the country.
*I particularly want to commend Jigawa and Katsina, the two states that we hope will be declaring open defecation free status very soon.”
She continued that: “I would just urge all the assembled ministers to work together with their teams in those particular states to see how we can absolutely put the cherry on the cake as it were.”
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