Governor Ben Ayade stated this on Wednesday at the Executive Council Chamber, Government House, Calabar, when he received in audience a delegation of funding agencies led by Chief of UNICEF Field Office, Enugu, Dr. Ibrahim Khalil Conteh.
He stated that already, the state is a leading state in sub-Saharan Africa in the elimination of open defecation with five of its local councils having been declared Open Defecation Free by the United Nations (UN).
