Olubadan begins advocacy projects to reduce open defecation
The Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba (Dr.) Akinloye Owolabi Olakulehin, has initiated an advocacy advertising and marketing and marketing campaign for the form of toilets in frail homesteads in Ibadanland by the family heads (Mogajis).
The mission, which used to be launched to Ibadan family heads at a gathering of all Mogajis, is portion of the paramount ruler’s ninetieth birthday and first coronation anniversary occasion activities growing next month.
In his address at the meeting with Mogajis in Ibadanland, at the extinct Olubadan Palace, Oja Oba in Ibadan, the paramount ruler disclosed that the level of launch defecation is worrisome, thus the need for the directive on the form of toilets in family compounds across Ibadanland spearheaded by the Mogajis.
Talking by Prince Folaseke Owolabi Olakulehin, the monarch urged Mogajis to compose the kind and development of Ibadanland their priority.
He talked about, “Effectively being is wealth, for all of the residents of Ibadanland to steer a healthy existence, a hygienic and easy atmosphere by correct disposal of human wastes wants to be given priority attention.”
Introducing the mission to the meeting, the Finishing up Coordinator, Toye Arulogun, acknowledged that Oyo Deliver is ranked third in Nigeria, whereas Ibadanland is ranked #1 in Oyo Deliver within the Open Defecation ratings. The palace, attributable to this fact, designs the mission to bolster the actualisation of the Oyo Deliver Authorities’s target for an Open Defecation Free articulate by 2028.
In his speech, the Chairman of the Oyo Deliver Rural Water Provide and Sanitation Company ( OYORUWASSA), Alhaji Waheed Hassan Babalola Afobaje, educated all of the family heads on the need for correct human shatter disposal, personal hygiene, sanitation and a easy atmosphere.
The chairman assured the Mogajis that RUWASA will seemingly be offering technical reinforce to the “TOILETS IN AGBOLE” initiative of the Olubadan sooner than, all the device by and after the form of the toilets within the inner city dwellings, namely by the facilitation of the provision of compulsory construction affords, cheap suggestions and sustainability of the toilets.
Earlier, in his welcome address, the President, Association of Mogajis of Ibadanland, Mogaji Asimiyu Adepoju Ariori, appreciated the introduction of the “Bogs in Agbole” mission and gave the commitment as correctly as assurance that every person Mogajis in Ibadanland will key into the mission as it's a developmental initiative for Ibadanland.
He urged the Ibadan Mogajis to take proactive steps to verify the lavatory construction mission in their family houses is applied successfully correct now as a generous ninetieth birthday reward from the Olubadan of Ibadanland to the folk of Ibadan.
In attendance at the meeting had been representatives from the Office of the Olubadan, the Executive Committee of the Ibadan Mogajis, UNICEF, RUWASA, other partnering companies, and the media.
