IIARD International Institute of Academic Research and Development

International Journal of Education and Evaluation (IJEE )

E-ISSN 2489-0073
P-ISSN 2695-1940
VOL. 8 NO. 2 2022

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Types and Effects of Solid Waste Generated by Internally Displaced Persons in Camps in Borno State, Nigeria: Counselling Interventions

Ngohi, Bukar Umar PhD, Bitrus Glawala Amuda PhD, Dr. Naomi Nuhu Adamu

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Abstract

The study investigated the typesand effects of solid waste generated by internally displaced persons in Borno State, Nigeria: Counselling interventions. Descriptive survey research design was used for the study. Target population of the study consisted of all the 14,265 IDPs in the 4 government designated camps in Maiduguri Metropolis, Borno State. However, a sample size of 300 IDPs using Krejcie and Morgan (1970) table for determining sample size of a giving population, were purposively selected from the volunteered respondents through stratified random sampling techniques and used for the study. 103(34%) of the respondents were male while the remaining 197(66%) were female. The study was guided by four objectives and four research questions comprising of the respondents’ demographic characteristics, types and effects of solid waste generated by the internally displaced persons in the study area. The data collected were analysed using descriptive statistical techniques of frequency counts, percentages and rank order. The result revealed that nylon of pure (seal) water, polythene bags, used wood materials, rags, cartons, sanitary pads, old/Used mattresses, charcoal/ash, used mats, used torch batteries, harvest residue and construction materials constituted the major solid wastes generated by the internally displaced persons in the study area thus, ranked from 1st to 9th and that breeding ground for mosquitoes, transmission of ailments and odour comprised the major effects of the wastes generated by the internally displaced persons in the camps in Maiduguri Metropolis. Based on these findings, it was recommended that professionally trained counsellors and public health officers should be attached to all IDP camps in Borno State with a view to providing counselling on regular intervals pertaining tokeeping a clean and healthy environment.

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