Of all the embarrassing stuff about my beloved country
spreading all over the globe, this one has got to be the most scatological and
alarming. How on earth can they say 34 million Nigerians have no toilets?
Sometimes I wonder how UNICEF and WHO come about their ridiculous statistics.
According to the claim jointly made by these organizations,
Nigeria is also among the top five countries in the world with the largest
number of people that defecate in the open!
How in the world did they come up with that?
Did they launch neighborhood guerilla spies to check out
Naija folks whenever they endeavour to take a crap?
Okay, I do agree that in Naija we have people who have got a
problem with sanely taking a shit the proper way but haba…how dem reach up to
34 million?
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| Oshodi alleyways, back in the days before Governor Fashola's transformation, was a popular crapping arena for area boys. |
The research was carried out due to the need to find out ways
to prevent diarrhea and respiratory infections which was attributed to water sanitation
and hygiene challenges. The UNICEF representatives are on a mission to help
sanitize and encourage behavior change in this respect.
LOL…they should also extend their mission to offices. Ever
entered an office restroom and discovered that instead of sitting on the closet,
somebody had squatted on the toilet seat and left dirty marks on the seat?…not
to talk of painting the walls inside the closet with their crap? How about the
ones that don’t ever think its sensible to flush after doing the doodoo?
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| The beauty of using a water closet - you can chat or ping away while taking a crap. |
Come to think of it…is it people who don’t have
toilets that act this way? Were they also included in this statistic?
Also I wondered whether Pit latrines were excluded as real
toilets because many people who can’t use a the water closet may be too used to
pit latrines…
I can’t blame them though…I blame those stingy landlords who
prefer to install pit latrines instead of water closets.
You sef, why ask them questions when you have pics that justify their claims. Lol...
ReplyDelete34 million? that's gotta be some bullsh*t. (pun intended) heeee.
ReplyDelete"Water closet" = "bathroom stall"... It took me a sec to catch on.
Oh my God! Is this forreals? wat a thing to be known for, chai! oya now Naija people, let us begin to behave ourselves, oga ju! :)
ReplyDeletekai. this WHO and UNICEF people can research anything. MAybe its part of the #shitting thingz in public that makes us the happiest people on planet earth.
ReplyDeleteOn a serious note, we have a long way to go in Nigeria. God help us
Lol....how do they come up with these statistics..
ReplyDeleteBut really, it's a serious matter sha..
Btw, I gbadun your blog well well. Some of your posts have got me laughing real hard. Thanks for stopping by my blog.
@Eya...Ha! Sister Eya, I can't use just these ones to judge nah...infact the area boy one is an old pic b4 Oshodi was transformed.
ReplyDelete@Yum yucky...lol! Seriously?
@Beulah...lol. May God help us!
@Sykik...Haaa! Sykik...how can taking a crap make us the happiest people on earth? kolo!
They say a picture speaks a thousand words! AND
ReplyDeleteWhen oil stain one finger, it will stain the rest!
@kush, lmao, why casin't it? After all the "freedom to shit" is part of our human right.
ReplyDelete@Simply mee...lol, I hope u are not convinced by all they are claiming sha
ReplyDelete@Sykik....True...lol, we have the freedom but we too dey abuse am for Naija!
I know Im late...but, um was that even a safe way to take a poop?
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