32 million Nigerians defecate openly – World Bank report

April 16, 2012 by Agency Reporter
 
The World Bank on Monday said 32 million Nigerians had no means of defecation and as such pass faeces in the open.
 The report, titled, “Economic impacts of poor sanitation in Africa,” covered Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Republic of Congo, Liberia, Madagascar, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.

“The desk study, Economic Impacts of Poor Sanitation in Africa, found the majority of these costs to production come from annual premature deaths, including children under the age of five, due to diarrheal disease. Nearly 90 percent of these deaths are directly attributable to poor water, sanitation, and hygiene. Other significant costs were productivity losses from poor sanitation, and time lost through the practice of open defecation.
 
Adverse impacts of inadequate sanitation that are likely to be significant, but difficult and expensive to estimate, include the costs of epidemic outbreaks; losses in trade and tourism revenue; impact of unsafe excreta disposal on water resources; and the long-term effects of poor sanitation on early childhood development,” the report’s Executive Summary said.

 In the portion on Nigeria, it said, “Poor sanitation costs Nigeria 455 billion Naira each year, equivalent to US$3 billion, according to a desk study carried out by the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP).

“This sum is the equivalent of US$20 per person in Nigeria per year or 1.3% of the national GDP.”
It also said 70 million Nigerians use unsanitary or shared latrines.
It also said “the poorest quintile is 10 times more likely to practice open defection than the richest.

Open defecation costs Nigeria US$1 billion per year – yet eliminating the practice would require
less than 6.5 million latrines to be built and used.”
The World Bank warned that “open defecation not only has higher costs than any other sanitation
practise, it has considerable adverse social impacts. Low cost and effective ways of stopping open defecation need to be scaled up.”
 
via Punch

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Posted: at 17-04-2012 07:13 AM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac

 

Posted: at 17-04-2012 11:24 AM (12 years ago) | Hero

     i beg i cant laf 

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Posted: at 17-04-2012 12:21 PM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac

 

Posted: at 17-04-2012 12:31 PM (12 years ago) | Upcoming

no wonder, that's why they dint want to give madam fuel subsidy the  post of world bank president , despite the facts that shes highly qualified after putting inn the service of over 25 years with the bank , she was once too defecating in public when she was a baby , she was born and raised at IBADAN , and she hardly speak their own language , but youruba

Posted: at 17-04-2012 01:15 PM (12 years ago) | Grande Master

Ok..

Posted: at 17-04-2012 02:00 PM (12 years ago) | Upcoming

If it's cheaper to build public toilets, why do we have to spend so much because of public defecation

Posted: at 17-04-2012 02:32 PM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac

And 381 million world bank are peeping at 33 million Nigerians as they are defecating. Nonsense! and you kill human beings in America and hide them in refuse bin.

Posted: at 17-04-2012 03:34 PM (12 years ago) | Upcoming

Choi ... and am eating

Posted: at 17-04-2012 03:39 PM (12 years ago) | Upcoming

Not my business

Posted: at 17-04-2012 03:58 PM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac