Segun Akanni, Toronto, Canada 
Osun State Rural Water and Environmental Sanitation Agency, RUWESA has vowed to work assiduously to make rural communities in the state free of open defecation.
The Director of Hygiene and Sanitation in the agency, Mr Segun Moyinoluwa stated this at a one day Interactive Session with members of State Task Group on Sanitation, STGS in Osogbo on Monday.
Moyinoluwa who noted that the state had embarked on aggressive campaign and enlightenment to educate rural people on healthy living said effective sanitation was key to improved standard of living.
The Director, called on community leaders to support the agency in its quest to make the state free of diseases and become the most safe state to live in the country.
Moyinoluwa, hinted that the present administration in the state was keen to improve living standard of its citizens and position the state for economic development.
Presenting a paper titled “Criteria for Community Certification”, Mr Samuel Ayantola said the agency had succeeded in triggering over one hundred communities in the state to ensure their free from open defecation.
Ayantola who highlighted criteria to certify community to be open defecation free called on sanitation group to check all important facilities in the community to ascertain the status of the area.
He called on the stakeholder in the sanitation sector to be more alive to their responsibility, saying the task of making the state free from open defecation was collective efforts.
Reported by Richard Akintade
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