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The agency boss said aqua tablets were also distributed to households while promotion of personal hygiene had been intensified to curtail spread of the disease, but attributed the outbreak to poor hygiene.

He explained further that  “we collected water samples from various sources, and using the bacteriological test kit, we discovered some private boreholes with contaminated water’,pointing out that shallow boreholes managed by private individuals are prone to contamination.

“There is the need to pass the water law in good time to check the excesses of some private boreholes who abuse due process and put the lives of the people at risk,” Bukar stated, adding that water samples from five boreholes in Gashua which tested positive have been shut down while more samples have been taken for advance laboratory analysis.

The General Manager said communities in neighbouring Karasuwa and Yusufari Local Government Areas have been disinfected and provided with aqua tablets to check possible spread.