An expert, Edodi Unumoh has warned that people should no longer drink rain water got from the corrugated iron roof.
Unumoh, the Centre Manager, Technical
Incubation Centre, an agency of the Federal Ministry of Science and
Technology in Calabar gave the advice in Calabar while calling on the
unemployed to take advantage of the centre to increase their skills,
potentials and employability.
Unumoh said that rain water from the
rustic corrugated iron sheet often becomes acidic and therefore has the
capability to become source of cancerous ailments.
He strongly warned that people should
be wary of such water and advised that irrespective of cost of the
corrugated iron sheet house-owners should endeavour to replace them when
they become old to avoid such dangerous ailments.
He said that they have done several
researches from their laboratories at the incubation centre and found
that such water was highly contaminated and at such they recommend that
people should beware of it.
He said there were now modern ways of
how to roof houses and Nigerians should keep abreast with this latest
development and avoid contamination with the cancerous agents.
“Fortunately, the Incubation centre in
Calabar has the technologies to fabricate this new roof made of tiles
which are now easily and cheaply available. We therefore strongly
encourage people to take advantage of this as a way of keeping away from
cancer,” he said.
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