Most cities in Nigeria today lack toilets for its citizens. This is according to Dominic Abonyi, the assistant registrar, Environmental Health Registration Council of Nigeria (EHORECON).
Speaking to Nigerian newspaper Leadership Weekend Abonyi noted that many Nigerians living in rural areas and even those who live in the urban slums do not have access to toilets, which according to him has increased the level of transmittable diseases in the country. According to the newspaper, Abonyi joined Nigerians to discuss the importance of toilets in the open. He said that the more people discussed that (access to toilets) the better informed they would be on how to prevent transmittable diseases. He shared his disappointment that most politicians campaigning for electoral positions in the country do not include provision of toilets as part of their campaign promises, adding that most people do not even see providing toilets as an important achievement. “Amidst all our human needs we should put toilets as aspects of what we should demand. When you say infrastructural development our minds would usually go to electricity, roads, bridges, technologies and others; nobody thinks about toilets,” he concluded.
