Nigeria:'Failure of National Policy Responsible for Poor Sanitation'

The Registrar of Environmental Health Officers Registration Council of Nigeria (EHORECON), Dr Dominic Abonyi, has said that the failure of circulation and implementation of the 2005 National Environmental Sanitation Policy has led to the current situation where government establishments require sanitation services.

DrAbonyi noted this at the official flag off of the Routine Sanitary Inspection and Environmental Health Assessment exercise of Federal Government establishments in Abuja recently.

He noted that sanitary inspection of premises is the hub upon which other sanitation services can be rendered, saying, "Sanitary inspection offers a veritable platform for detecting and correcting defects and establishing sanitation service needs apart from offering greater opportunities for real time community education on sanitation and other environmental health matters."

While noting that the focus of the exercise is not to prosecute or present establishments visited in bad light, he said it rather provided an opportunity to offer advisory services on the current state of sanitation and occupational hygiene situations in Federal Government establishments.