Users’ Perception of Environmental Sanitation Exercise in Selected Market in Nigeria Cities

Abstract

This study examined the factors influencing users’ participation in the conduct of environmental sanitation exercise in Selected Cities of Nigeria, with a view of providing information that could enhance users’’ participation in the exercise in the study area. 214 questionnaire was randomly administered among the market users’ out of which 205 was retrieved. The result of the findings shown that the means of waste disposal used by respondents were nearby gutter/space (1.5%), by burning (2.9%), use of designated dumpsite (19.0%) waste collection service (73.7%) and (34.6%) of the respondents pays N251-N300, (10.2%) pay between N50- N100 naira, 8.3% of respondents’ pays N101-N150, (24.4%) pays N151-N200, (13.2%) pays N351 above and (7.3%) pays between N201-N250 naira over the same period. In respect to regularity (7.3%) declared that supply of water is very regular, (49.8%), just regular, (21.0%) irregular, (13.7%) very irregular and (8.3%) no supply of water at all. The types of toilet used by respondents are water closet (57.1%), pit latrine (24.4%), bucket latrine (9.3%), pour-flush (2.9%) and other like ventilated improved toilet constitute (6.3%). The study concluded that environmental sanitation practices go beyond sweeping of market environment and that while environmental sanitation facilities in the market are acceptably insufficient, the existing ones are wrongly managed and not exploited prudently.