DRAINAGE TURNED COMMUNITY TOILET. By Buhari Olakunle.

 DRAINAGE TURNED COMMUNITY TOILET.

By Buhari Olakunle.

Another preferred location for open defecation is uncompleted buildings. For those whose houses are within range, as soon as they are done wrapping their poop in nylon, they fling it into the uncompleted building– a popular act referred to as ‘shotput’.

Although there is a signboard warning against defecation in the drainage in the Amule area and neighbouring communities, residents seem not to care. Almost everyone whose house is within close proximity to the drainage has turned it into a toilet. 

Asmiyu Biliamin, a trader and resident in Amule, said: “We are lucky to have this drainage pass by our backyard.From morning till evening, residents, mostly children, can be seen bending at the edge of the drainage and discharging their feces. Worse still, some of the residents have used zinc to construct open roof toilets, passing the pipes directly into the drainage.But what do you want us to do when we don’t have toilets? Should we kill ourselves? Even the government knows there is nothing they can do to us,” 

He therefore advised the leaders of the Community to made available Public Toilets for use of the people to avoid this act.