ASSESSMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION AWARENESS AMONG THE CITIZENS OF EZECHIME CLAN IN ANIOCHA-NORTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA: A CASE STUDY OF ONICHA-UGBO COMMUNITY, DELTA STATE

This study investigated the environmental sanitation awareness among the citizens of Onicha-Ugbo in Aniocha-North Local Government Area of delta state. Four hypotheses were developed to guide this study. The four hypotheses were accepted as valid, that environmental sanitation impacts on the health of Onicha-Ugbo citizens. Also, community shows commitment in organizing environmental sanitation exercises. Also, literate citizens participates more in environmental sanitation because of the high literacy level of the citizens and lastly, schools participate in enhancing environmental sanitation. The sampled area comprises 4 major quarters of Onicha-Ugbo, which the sample size was selected to be 200 people as my sample size. The systematic sampling was used to get our sample but later modified to systematic sampling-with replacement due to the fact that some houses were unoccupied in the major quarters of Onicha-Ugbo. With this method, any house that is unoccupied will be replaced with the next occupied house . Self structured questionnaire was administered using the likert scale format ( SA,A,SD,D) to the sampled population, five(5) questions from each research questions were answered by the respondents to obtain information for the study. A chi-Square test was employed to test the hypotheses developed and validate the hypotheses for this study. Related reviews to this study was also reviewed to shed more light to this study, Examining the challenges and suggesting possible solutions to environmental sanitation problems in Onicha-Ugno. Recommendations were also provided.