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Public Toilets – Infrastructure Think Tank
- Clean public toilets should be mandated in every town in the region, with each one being spaced 2 km apart, like in Kigali. Bonuses and incentives will be provided to the workers who keep them clean.
- Basic things such as tissue paper, soap, paper towels and hand sanitizer will be available free of charge. If any of those items is lacking at any time, the person or persons in charge of that bathroom will be summarily dismissed, and possibly flogged in public. The public must have confidence in in their public bathrooms as safe, healthy place to do your thing in comfort and a clean environment. The bathrooms will have a baby changing stations, and there will be an area for nursing mothers to breastfeed their children in a decent, dignified way, versus the current practice now of breastfeeding in public.
- Any person caught urinating in public, day or night, will be fined N500,000 for a first offence, plus 15 lashes in public. There should be no reason to pee in the gutter when you have clean public bathrooms.