A new public toilet worth RM315,000 was launched today at Tamu Ground in Putatan.

Deputy Minister of Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government, Datuk Halimah Mohd Sadique said that the toilet was the third public toilet developed in Sabah.

The toilet was designed to be comfortable and includes a room for people with disabilities and a diaper changing room.

Halimah said that the government effort to produce the newly designed public toilet was to provide the people with better public facilities in a comfortable environment.

She also said that with this new concept, the people would feel responsible and reluctant to do unpleasant things towards it.

“So, whenever we speak of toilets, it does not mean that it is a place to answer nature’s call and has to be in a dirty state.

“But don’t think that you could do as you like in a public toilet. After you are done answering nature’s call, you have to be responsible. Just because there is a cleaner, it does not mean that you can pass the responsibility to the cleaner. We need to be a responsible user of the public toilet. It is self discipline.”

“If the we able to discipline ourselves in using any of the public facilities developed by the government, we can educate our children at home to be responsible citizens in the future. Without responsibilities there is no use of having everything (public facilities). So we have to educate the people and create awareness,” she added.

Other than that, she also mentioned that future improvements will be made on the new Putatan public toilets, such as making it more child friendly and adding grab bars for the disabled.

She added that she would keep monitoring the usage of the newly developed public toilet and would make consultation on the placement of more such public toilets to be built in Putatan as requested by Putatan District Officer Awang Abdul Ghani Pg Yusof and Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Seri Panglima Yahya Hussin.

Source:
courtesy of THE BORNEO POST

by Safrah Mat Salleh

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