Nigeria ranks second after China in child mortality record, just as diarrhoea claims 500,000 children worldwide daily, Dr Otive Igbuzor, the Executive Director, African Centre for Leadership, Strategy and Development, has said.
Igbuzor said this, on Wednesday, in Abuja at the opening ceremony of the staff training on Community-Led Total Sanitation and Waste Management.
Community-Led Total Sanitation is a United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)-assisted project aimed at contributing to the improvement of environmental health by addressing behavioural change related to sanitation and waste management by promoting community participation.
“The fact is that children die every single day in Nigeria. The rate is only second to China and it is unacceptable,” Igbuzor said.
He noted that the proportion of the Nigerian population with access to basic sanitation was still very low, adding that many people were dying from diseases such as diarrhoea, dysentery and cholera.
“These diseases occur because people defecate in bushes around their houses and when rain falls, it washes it into the river and the water is consumed by individuals,” he said.
The News agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalled that the organisation last year focused on the Durunmi and Ruwan Fulani communities both in the FCT.
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