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I will definitely go with Kevin on this because a lot of effort has been made in the area of rural sanitation which is still ongoing but the urban sanitation has been ignored or relegated to the background. The way I see it, if it stays like this, we have succeeded in eliminated hygiene and sanitation challenges in the rural areas and left the urban. Take Kano State in Nigeria for example, a lot of work is going on in the area of WASH in the rural areas, but a peek at the Kano metropolis will reveal some disgusting sites which happens to lie in the center of the city. On your way to Kano from Abuja right through Kaduna and Zaria at the main entrance, there is a large open defecation site. Even when you are in a fast moving vehicle and not paying attention to it, the stench will definitely draw your attention. So the questions, is it that the government has not done something about it or does it lie with the attitude of the people living in this area? To the best of my knowledge, we are still grappling with this strategy in the rural while the urban stares us in our face. What would CLTS do in the case of an urban society like Kano to eliminate this nuisance? If the government is not doing enough, what should it do then? The challenge looks enormous here.