Minister of Environment, Mrs. Laurentia Laraba Mallam has announced that the Federal Government has commenced a process to review the National Environmental Sanitation Policy.



FG To Review Environmental Sanitation Policy

Mallam said the review is vital due to changes in public health practices which have evolved since the NES policy was inaugurated 10 years ago.

Speaking during the inauguration of an Inter-Ministerial Committee on the NES at the headquarters of the Federal Ministry of Environment in Abuja, Mallam said: “With the current trend of developmental challenges and advent of new areas of sanitation practice, it is absolutely imperative for Nigeria to review the existing NES policy in order to comply with international best practices and also to harmonise grey areas that are of concern to stakeholders for the overall maintenance of sound public health.

“The ministry is in the process of reviewing these documents to re-strategize on all goals and achievable implementation plans for national environmental sanitation.”

Mallam expressed sadness that environmental sanitation across the country is no longer being Observed by many families whenever it was time for the regular monthly sanitation exercise as observed in many states.

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She noted that the cross-cutting dimension of environmental sanitation issues and the magnitude of the problems called for collective responsibility for Nigeria.

“It is against this background that the existing membership of the standing inter-ministerial committee for the National Environmental Sanitation Day is being broadened to incorporate more stakeholders”.

“The new members of the inter-ministerial steering committee on NES have been drawn from relevant federal ministries and extra-ministerial departments, donor agencies, the armed forces, para-military organisations, NGOs and bilateral organisations,” she said.

There have been numerous calls by individuals and organisations alike for the environmental sanitation which is usually held every last Saturday of the month between 7am – 10am to be cancelled.

The sanitiation exercises were 1st implemented by the Colonial Government between 1900 – 1904. The earliest form of the enviromental policy which was 1st adopted in Lagos was the ‘Cantonment Proclamation of 1904 on the Layout and Sanitation of GRA’ .

Other policies were the Public Health Act of 1909 on Environmental Sanitationand the Township Ordinance No. 29 of 1917 on Sanitation and Environmental Management.

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