Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi has advised rural communities to shun archaic beliefs that had consistently discouraged them from allowing their children to be immunised against dangerous diseases.
The governor spoke on Sunday in Lokoja, at the official flag-off of National Immunisation Plus Days (NIPDs).
Bello, who was represented by the Commissioner of Health, Dr. Saka Audu, pointed out that the vaccines were meant to prevent killer diseases and not to harm the children.
He said that the exercise was targeted at ridding the nation of polio, and directed the administrators of the 21 Local Governments to provide adequate financial and logistics support to make it a success.
Bello said that Kogi had been polio-free since 2009, and described that as “a thing of joy”.
The Commissioner for Health, whose speech was delivered by Dr. Ahmed Attah,a Special Adviser to the Governor,…
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