By Fatima Oluwakemi Saka
As the world fights to end open defecation by 2030, in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory still struggles curtailing the menace, findings have revealed.
According to investigations, while observing activities emanating from ongoing road projects in the FCT on the uncompleted roads revealed that the ongoing road construction is a site for defecating.
An outlook that harbors open defecation norms is the ongoing road construction at Area3 Roundabout.
A similar scenario played out in the major highways and roundabout of AYA that leads to Maitama in the FCT, Jabi Park among others.
In a chat with NatureNews.Africa a sachet water seller, Muhammedu Ali, who also made a similar observation lamented that Abuja being the FCT, should be more environment conscious, adding that the delay of construction of the roads had harbored a lot of environmental pollution and displacement in the city.
“I am not happy with the status of this road, as the FCT, we ought to have good roads,” he said.
Findings also alerted the correspondent to the presence of environmental pollutants which could cause health problems like respiratory diseases, heart disease, and some types of cancer.
Research also shows that people with low income are the ones living in polluted areas and have unsafe drinking water.
Also, it was discovered that children and pregnant women are at higher risk of health problems related to pollution.
This is evidence that illustrates whatever is done on the surface of the earth goes down to the ground that is connected to the ground water.
NatureNews.Africa spoke with a healthcare worker Mr. Usman Suleiman Shehu, who lamented that ongoing road construction had created an open space people for unscrupulous people to defecate, adding that it had an effect on the environment which was unhygienic to human health.
“You can’t be trekking and still inhale bad odors from the atmosphere, all of these are detrimental to human health,” he added.
