Ondo State government has placed a ban on open defecation across the state in order to address the increasing rate of the trend .

Speaking while inaugurating a seven man steering committee on open defecation free society in Akure, governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu vowed to make Ondo state an example on open defecation.

The event which was attended by chairmen of the eighteen council areas of the state was to end the scourge before 2030 in accordance with United nations target .

Available records shows that Nigeria is the second after India on open defecation in the world as close to 50 million Nigerians are involved in open defecation with 9 million living in the south west and 1.4 million people in Ondo state.

Speaking on this development, Akeredolu directed that all public and private buildings as well as public facilities across the state must provide a functional toilet within six months or risk been closed down.

The governor also directed that all public and private schools in the state must have functional toilet facilities and a space for menstrual hygiene which must be put in place within six months starting from next month.

The governor said after six months any one caught violating this directive wil be dealt with decisively.
speaking at the event, The head of UNICEF field office in Akure, mohsena Islam harped on the need for continuous enlightenment in rural areas to ensure the state is open defection free before 2030 target of the sdgs.
The seven man committee chaired by the commissioner for economic planning and budget, pastor Emmanuel Igbasan promised to deliver on the assignment.

Shttttng-in-public Coneheads will stage protest against this

It should be after these and other measures are confirmed to have been efficiently implemented that any decent goevrnment should enforce a ban. Why ban first then ask public and private buildings to provide toilets in 6 months? What hapens within that time? Besides what about providing government-owned public toilet facilities? I hope the state government is also ready to prvide sanitary, modern toilets in all its schools and institutions at least to show good example...

ideynl1:
Open defection is a culture in Yoruba land, the same way skull mining and ritual killings are culture.

I doubt if this ban can hold.

Says who? World dirtiest race?


The slugger of the farmer to catch the thief, the thief catches the hunter.

What about you igbos that flesh feasting is your culture.

Build more public toilets everywhere then ban it. But who really does open defecation sef