By Ibahima Yakubu,
Kaduna (Nigeria) — Residents of Rohogi community in Igabi local Government area of Kaduna state, North-west Nigeria, have appealed to the state government to assist them by constructing a borehole or other means of accessing potable water to avert possible outbreak of waterborne diseases.
A resident, Adamu Sani told news men, that for many years, they have been facing serious challenges f getting clean water which forces them to be moving from one place to another in search of water
Adamu said ,”as you can see for yourself ,this is the water we are using daily in feeding our animals and washing our clothes and sometimes if we want to drink good water, we have to travel very far distance ,in order to get the good one to drink, so as to protect our children from waterborne diseases.
Another resident , Danladi Baba, said during dry season, many people living in the area always face serious challenges of accessing water
Baba further added that “we are begging the state and federal governments to come to our aid as well as wealthy individuals in Nigeria to remember people living in the village.
“Our Children and Adult need clean water to survive, they also need better lives like every other citizen in the country”
Lack of social amenities including water, Baba noted, was the main factor responsible for the large number of youth migrating from villages to towns .
Similarly, some cattle breeders in the area who spoke to newsmen, identified climate change and lack of water as some of the factors forcing them to migrate from one part of the country to another in search of greener pasture for their animals.
An Environmentalist, Hassan Wamban Jama;a from a non Governmental organization, Salin Green, noted that every day millions of people across Africa, usually women and girls, walk miles in search of water
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“The length of time it takes to collect the little water they can lay their hands on means that they do not have time to do any other thing that the day. They do not get the chance to attend schools simply because they are too busy collecting water,” he said.
Hassan said villages without water, always look dirty and unhygienic thereby risk epidemics.
Hassan therefore called on the government to help in constructing boreholes for the villagers ,while the villagers on the other hand could dig wells as an interim measure to ameliorate the sufferings of their children going about in search of clean water and attend schools or other domestic activities.
