Federal Government commits $5million to rural sanitation, hygiene

  
   The Federal Government has committed about $5million as counterpart contribution to the Rural Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion in Nigeria, RUSHPIN.

    Nigeria secured the grant for the project through the National Task Group on Sanitation, NTGS.

    Speaking at a meeting with State Governors on the Rural Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion in Nigeria, RUSHPIN, in Abuja, Minister of Water Resources, Engr Suleiman Adamu, stated that access to improved sanitation in Nigeria has declined over time.

    As a result, he said there are over 70 million people without access to improve sanitation and more than 45 million people practicing open defecation in Nigeria.

   Adamu said that the RUSHPIN project which is going on in 6 Local Government Areas of Benue and Cross River States is part of government’s efforts to mobilize resources to the sector in view of the limited resources available.

    Present at the meeting were the governors of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, Ondo State, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu and Sokoto State, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal.