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–Pix(above): Engr. Suleiman H. Adamu, HMWR
The Honourable Minister of Water Resources, Engr Suleiman H. Adamu, FNSE, FAEng, has happily announced that, on Wednesday, 21st December, 2022, the National Task Group on Sanitation NTGS, a multi-sectoral platform involving line ministries, agencies, NGO Network and the media, has certified and declared additional seven new Local Government Areas as Open Defecation Free. This brings the total number of Open Defecation Free Local Government Areas to 100.
The breakdown for this significant milestone is as follows: Jigawa State, the first Open Defecation Free state (27 LGAs); Anambra (3), Akwa Ibom (1), Bauchi (7) , Benue (9), Borno (2), Cross River (6), Kano(11) Kaduna (5), Katsina (24), Osun (1), Yobe (1) and Zamfara (3) Local Government Areas.
It will be recalled that as at 2017, only one Local Government Area, Obaniluku LGA in Cross River State was ODF. President Muhammadu Buhari, declared a state of emergency in the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Sector in 2018 and flagged off the Clean Nigeria: Use the Toilet Campaign in November,2019, backed by Executive Order 9, towards making Nigeria open defecation free by 2025./SHARE THIS