Access To Clean Water; No Responsible Govt Can Afford To Play With Such Essential Commodity – NHRC

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has described citizens access to clean water as a human rights issue, lamenting how the lack of access negatively impacts on the well-being and human rights of citizens.

During a webinar on access to clean water and sanitation in Abuja, Executive Secretary of the Commission, Tony Ojukwu stated that no responsible government can afford to play politics with such essential commodity.

He also noted that the stakeholders meeting was aimed at strengthening and reinforcing the right to clean water and sanitation in Nigeria, through collaboration with the Commission.

Mrs. Oluwayemisi Akhile said the primary responsibility of the Federal, State and Local governments in this era is to ensure safe water, basic sanitation, and waste management disposal in communities, healthcare facilities and quarantine centres.

She restated the need to ensure that water utilities have the required financial and safe operational conditions to continue to deliver services in public spaces thereby promoting and protecting the rights of its citizens.