| | The roots of the contemporary sanitation crisis are found in the colonial attitude toward Nigerians and their living environments. Stock links the WAI (War Against Indiscipline) with models in Northern Rhodesia and SA. Stock looks at a sanitation problem exacerbated by a rapidly growing population, a proliferation of consumer wastes and the failure to provide basic sanitary infrastructure; He documents the health care policy towards curative medicine which has contributed to the neglect of environmental sanitation, urged on by the medical establishment and foreign suppliers of medical equipment and drugs and at hospitals that look at the diseases of poverty (cholera, diarrhoea, gastro-enteritis) without the means to address the root causes. |
