Mr Kefas Yilrwang, the acting Managing Director of the Jos Metropolitan Development Board (JMDB), has called on investors to build public toilets in the state to check open defecation.
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Yilrwang made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Jos.
He said that the absence of adequate toilet facilities in some public places within the metropolis had led to various health hazards.
He said that proper disposal of excreta was an essential part of urban sanitation and a basic necessity in disease prevention.
“’We want the public to invest in these toilets because it will give all participants mutual benefits; the environment will benefit; the investors will benefit and the government will equally benefit, ‘’ he said.
The acting managing director said that the board would carry our regular inspection of toilet facilities to ensure conformity with national standards and guidelines of public toilet provisions.
He said that the environment had “given us more than we can ask for and the need to care for it is, therefore, important”.
“When we don’t take care of our environment we call for diseases such as malaria, dysentery and cholera and open defecation is one way to deface a city and cause some health problems, ‘’ Yilrwang said.
He said the board would support interested investors and provide them with all the necessary documents that would enable them to manage the facilities. (NAN)
