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Nigeria: FG Sets to Achieve MDGs Target on Sanitation
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Leadership (Abuja)
27 March 2008
Posted to the web 27 March 2008
Pamela Sombo
Abuja
The Federal Government has said it will promote environmental activities to speed up the attainment of the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target for sanitation.
This, it said, has become imperative as much has not been achieved and time is running out for the MDGs to be attained.
Speaking at the inauguration of the inter-ministerial planning committee for the 2008 national environmental sanitation day in Abuja, the minister of environment, housing and urban development, Architect Halima Tayo Alao, said the MDG target for sanitation is to half by 2015, the proportion of the worlds population without sustainable access to basic sanitation.
Alao said "there is need to reinforce strategies towards achieving a comfortable level of sanitation coverage in the country and the attainment of the sanitation MDG is critical for economic and human development at both local and global levels".
According to her, the aim of the inauguration of the committee is to bring global sanitation issues to the fore and promote activities that will accelerate progress in the attainment of the MDG target for sanitation.
The ministry of environment, housing and urban development, has as such pledged its commitment to the goal which prompted the captioning of last years sanitation day 'environmental sanitation: key to millennium development goals'.
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She explained that this year's World Environmental Sanitation Day (WESD) is one of the several activities lined up to commemorate 2008 as the International Year of sanitation (IYS) saying this was why the recently concluded world water day was tagged 'sanitation matters' to be in line with the IYS.
The minister who pointed out that WESD was instituted as a way of institutionalising sound environmental sanitation practices amongst the populace through creation of awareness harped on the importance of environmental sanitation and reward for innovative best practices on environmental sanitation management.
She charged the committee of the work at hand saying "it is very important and must be seen as such by every one if the vision of the attainment of the MDG target for sanitation is to be achieved".
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