Kaduna State Governor Uba Sani has asked residents to adopt water-conscious habits, select fresh and locally sourced meals, limit food and water waste, and discover safe ways to reuse water while avoiding pollution.
In keeping with the 2023 World Food Day theme, “Water is life, water is food,” he remarked this. Never leave anyone behind.
Plans call for significant advancements in agricultural innovation, sustainability, and market access. We are committed to tackling the problem of increasing water efficiency, ensuring equitable water distribution, protecting aquatic food webs, and leaving no one behind.
“On World Food Day, we honor the farmers who produce our food. They have overcome many obstacles with determination and tenacity, which is admirable. They provide nourishment and sustain the local and national economy, and they are the foundation of our food security, he said in a statement released on Monday by his chief press secretary, Muhammad Lawal Shehu.
In order to preserve the longevity of Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) facilities, he said that ongoing training and retraining programs for local mechanics had given them the knowledge and skills necessary to fix damaged boreholes in communities.
He said that it led to the restoration of countless boreholes, which benefited people in the state’s rural villages.
The Governor emphasized that the state government, in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), recently built ventilated improved pit (VIP) latrines and hand wash stations across the State as well as borehole construction and rehabilitation projects because water pollution has significant effects on the food, environment, economy, and health.
He emphasized that seven local government areas had been proclaimed free of open defecation by UNICEF in August 2023 and gave the assurance that the Kaduna State Government is dedicated to achieving Open Defecation Free (ODF) status by 2024, one year before the national deadline.
He stated that in order to provide WASH services in the state, the Kaduna State Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency (KADRUWASSA) is carrying out programs like the Partnership for Expanded Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (PEWASH) and Sustainable Urban and Rural Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (SURWASH).
The governor reaffirmed the administration’s commitment to provide people, particularly those in rural areas, access to food and clean water.