113 Million Nigerians Defecate In The Open Due To Lack Of Sanitation Facilities

A Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) specialist with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Mr Saaondo Anom, has stated that over 113 million Nigerians defecate in the open due to lack of sanitation facilities. Anom made this statement while speaking at a workshop organised by UNICEF in Enugu, emphasizing that the practice constitute health hazards to Nigerians.

“Do you know that a teaspoon of shit, or in other words, a lethal dose, just one gramme of human faeces can contain more than 10 million viruses, one million parasites, 1000 parasities cysts and 1000 parasities eyes?. One can imagine the amount of infections people who defecate in the open voluntarily release into the communities which in turn come to harm others’’, he said.