OPEN DEFECATION: Agency Donates Public Address System, Sanitary Materials,Others  To Ten LGs  

 

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Atleast 10 Local Governments areas in Oyo State have received campaign  items from State Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency (RUWASSA)  to facilitate campaign against Open Defecation .
The  state Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Prince Dotun Oyelade, who disclosed this in a statement listed the items to  include  100 Ahuja speakers, six motorcycles (two each for Egbeda, Ona-Ara, and Ibarapa-East local government areas), and sanitary items
He said the items were distributed  based on selection criteria in benefitting local government areas.
Chairman of the agency, Alhaji Babalola Afobaje who donated the items the benefiting councils disclosed that it was part of the activities marking his 100 days in office  woth support from the United Nations Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF) to curb the menace in the State.
Among the items donated included motorcycles,  public address systems (Ahuja speakers,) and sanitary materials.

Alhaji Afobaje said the agency had enjoyed tremendous support from the United Nations Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF) in its efforts to end open defecation in Egbeda, Ona-Ara, and Ibarapa-East.

He added that under his supervision, the agency had drilled solar boreholes across some local governments in the state.

Afobaje added that the purpose of the donation was to support the efforts of local government areas to end open defecation.
He urged the authorities to ensure timely distribution of the items to the beneficiaries.

Afobaje also noted that the agency’s partnership with UNICEF had, to a large extent, impacted the lives of people of the state positively.

He commended Governor Seyi Makinde for his unwavering support for the agency, which he said had attracted international partnerships with UNICEF and other donors.

The  chairman of Egbeda Local Government Area, Sikiru Sanda, expressed appreciation to RUWASSA for the gesture.

He called on other international partners, donors, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), corporate organizations, and wealthy individuals to emulate RUWASSA’s gesture of responding to the needs of the less privileged to ameliorate their sufferings.

He assured that all the items received would be used for the exact purpose for which they were intended.

The affected local governments include Egbeda, Ibarapa East, Ogo-oluwa, Iseyin, Oluyole, Ibadan South-East, and Ona-ara, among others.

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