Yemisi Dada
Beneficiaries of various Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, WASH, interventions projects in Lagos have been implored to ensure maintenance of toilet facilities and protect it to serve the purpose of ending open defecation.
A representative of the Federal Ministry of Budget and Economic Planning, Mr AbdulMalik Giwa, gave the advice when he inspected WASH facilities in Ikorodu and Ojodu LCDA, provided by a Non Governmental Organization WaterAid Nigeria.
Mr Giwa said the inspection was to ascertain that the quality of WASH facilities interventions by WaterAid Nigeria meets the standard approved by the Federal Government.
After inspection of projects in Ojodu, Isiu, Agbede, Itamaga and Olorunda in Ikorodu, Mr Giwa commended WaterAid Nigeria to ensure international specifications with a call on benefitting communities not to sell some of the WASH materials like water purification tablets, sanitation soaps and ORS tablets given to them but to distribute to affected households to curb spread of Cholera.
“As part of our oversight functions, we have visited some areas in Agidingbi, Ojodu, now Isiu, Itamaga, Olorunda, and we can say WaterAid Nigeria has done well and it is worth commending but if distribution is not well monitored it can get to wrong hands who will sell at cheaper rate but I am glad the LCDA will be in charge with CDCs and CDAs.”
Earlier, the Executive Secretary, Ikorodu North LCDA, Mr. Niyi Odugbesi, assured that the WASH materials would be distributed to the nooks and crannies of the Council Area with promise to sustain the advocacy and sensitization on regular hand washing with soap, environmental sanitation and improved water supply to fight against communicable diseases.
“On behalf of my Executive Chairman of Ikorodu North LCDA, Mr Adeola Banjo, I want to say a big thank you to WaterAid NGO for all the various interventions too numerous to mention, we promised to ensure maintenance and protect the toilet facilities and ensure distribution of the materials to those concerned.”
The inspection and monitoring climaxed the ten days rural advocacy and sensitization by WaterAid Nigeria in over twenty communities in Ojodu, Ikorodu and Igando Ikotun LCDAs with over five hundred thousand direct and indirect beneficiaries.
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