Nigerian government has condemned the Senate for proposing to establish an agency called the Clean Nigeria Agency. Information Guide Nigeria

The Ministry of Environment and Ministry of Finance have faulted a bill seeking to establish Clean Nigeria Agency to eradicate open defecation. Peoplesgazette reports.

They made presentations at a public hearing by the Senate on a bill for an Act to establish the Nigerian Clean Agency to prohibit open urination, defecation to keep Nigerian clean and disease-free yesterday in Abuja.

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The bill was sponsored by Clifford Ordia (PDP- Edo). jamb results

Mr Ordia said the bill wants to make rules, issue guidelines and regulations for the construction and operations of public toilets.

However, speaking against the proposed agency, the director of legal services in the Ministry of Environment, Helen Obayagbon, said that the bill was trying to convert a fragment of the waste management component of sanitation into an agency, adding there are 15 components of sanitation.

This, she said would result in wasting public resources, stressing that the ministry has the mandate to coordinate environmental sanitation activities in all sectors of Nigeria.

Adding that the ministry and its agencies were neither informed nor consulted on the proposed agency.

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