Obi Wins Bill Gets Award Over Polio Eradication

The minister of State For Health, Mohammad Pate, has said that the administration of President Jonathan is working hard to eradicate polio in the country before the end of his tenure in 2015.
Bate disclosed this in Awka while presenting the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (in collaboration with Governors’ Forum) award to Governor Peter obi, as best performer of the Nigeria immunization leadership change in the South East of Nigeria.
He said the federal government has been working for the past 20 years to eradicate polio across the country, adding that to realize the dream, President Jonathan constituted a presidential task force in 2012. He added that all state governors are expected to key into the project by establishing polio task forces at state levels.
According to the minister, a lot of progress has been made noting that in 2013, only 30 polio cases were recorded, while in the past 9 months, no case was recorded.
He said Anambra State, for five years, has not had a single case of polio, adding, “if you go throughout the state, you cannot find a child paralysed within the last five years. With this trend, polio is on its last days in Nigeria.
Presenting the N120 million award to Governor Obi, the minister  said the honour was not by chance.