If you obtained or are still in the process of obtaining your Bachelors Degree here in naija, and you are a female, I see you nodding and concurring right now. Chai! terrible to imagine if our wise hostel predecessors didn't come up with the 'itch saving' and 'oh so welcome' idea of "pee buckets". No forming o biko. As long as you didn't attend a private school, you are a 'sister'!. Just remember arriving your hostels in first year, and your roomate (in a higher level, of course ) showing you the specific type of bucket you should add to your 'plastics list', and how she told you she would show you what its used for when you returned. Hmmm.. memories!! Well, "pee buckets" like we fondly call them save females who live in hostels, from contracting toilet infections, from the endless list there is. Since inadequate water supply is also one of the nagging issues most higher institutions face, feacal matter has and will always be found in the water closests there. Here, I'd like to proffer a single sanitary tip those ladies who like to take "allowance" when "pee buckets" have given us "allow" : 'biko', 'abeg', 'jor', do not store urine in pee buckets for any reason whatsoever. Aside from the offensive odour, it can be the perfect culture medium for microbes and can infect you the 'sole user' and tha totally kills the whole aim. I now declare the floor open for smart "pee bucket sanitary tips", especially from the "brothers" who often fall victim of tipping the semi full buckets with their large and often unaware large feet. Tell us what you think we dont know!
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ReplyDeleteI think that's not the solution to their problem. A proper sanitary culture in d campus should be established. The ladies should not rest their efforts until they get the university's administration to cooperate with them.
ReplyDeleteI have to problems with 'not resting' I just have a hugeeeee problem using the histel toilets directly while 'not resting'..in fact, I rebuke it!
ReplyDeleteAt a point a toilet was assigned to five persons in d room. They should be able to ensure the toilet is hygienic
ReplyDeleteAt what point? I know its three roilets to about 20 rooms.
DeleteAt what point? I know that recently, its about 10 rooms at least to about three or four toilets
DeleteIn the interim,I'd say it's an age-old, time weighted safe sanitary option all girls should buy into especially the newbies while the university authorities are 'pushed' to establish and maintain adequate health and sanitary system in place to fortsall the ills of a public health catastrophe. But then again,emphasis should be placed on its(pee plastics) proper use and hygeinic handling else the purpose would be dead on arrival.
ReplyDeleteWell said Emeka! As long as newbies have older room mates, they wilk learn how it works. At least till see the long awaited improvments by authorities.
DeleteEnter your comment...Solomon, your submission is very correct. But the Nigerian authorities have shown they care less, if at all, of the predicaments of the nigerian child, the nigerian students........there's a popular is saying ''when the desireable is not available....the available becomes desireable.
ReplyDeleteWe must say kudos to these ladies for their innovation.....they found a 'doable' solution for their problem.
But like the blogger said, they should not raise pee-bucket microbes and self-infect. That would be self-rape.
Self-rape. Hmmm. I couldn't have said it better!
DeleteStaying in the hostel without a pee-bucket would have been unimaginable!. The idea of using a it has actually saved a lot of our young ladies from toilet diseases. Sometimes I ask myself some questions like can I use the toilet directly without my prized pee-bucket if we have constant water supply and a clean toilet but then 5 rooms with a 20 occupants will have to share one toilet?????? NO can do looooool
ReplyDeleteHahahaha.. no can do either!! Never.
ReplyDeleteAn interesting topic. On point.
ReplyDeleteI bet the possession of the "pee bucket" makes some pple insensitive to proper hygienic practices in the toilet area.
Some will come to pour away the 'overnight' urine, and they'll carelessly pour it on and around the toilet seat, just because they don't sit on it.
Whatever happened to the days of taking a dump in the bush.
Uninhibited freedom!