landlords arrested in Nigeria for violating the government's "one house, one toilet" policy.

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As many as 70 landlords have been arrested in the western Nigerian state of Ekiti for violating the government's "one house, one toilet" policy. They are accused of violating legislation which says that each rented house must come with a toilet. Speaking after the arrests, officials insisted that landlords found guilty of failing to provide adequate sanitation would be dealt with severely. "They think we are not serious about this, and so they must pay dearly for this until they learn to comply," said the head of the local government sanitation agency. According to the World Bank's Water and Sanitation Programme, Nigeria loses an equivalent of $3bn annually as some 32 million of its citizens have no access to a latrine, while a further 70 million Nigerians use unsanitary or shared latrines. Source BBC news http://www.bbc.co.uk/news.

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  1. I think Nigerian Govt has to introduce awareness raising compaigns regarding benefits of having toilets at their homes.These compaigns should be start at villages,distts,cities and collonies.Community based organization should be facilitated by the Govt to train social organizers to deliver lectures on benefits of using latrines and harmful effect of open defication.