People’s Welfare, Our Priority – RSG …Denies Cases Of Lassa Fever In Rivers

The Rivers State Deputy Governor, Dr Ipalibo Harry Banigo, says the administration of Governor Nyesom Wike is determined to give the people of the state a new lease of life.
Banigo stated this while addressing members of the Bille Kingdom Chiefs Council (BKCC) during an audience at Government House, Port Harcourt.
The deputy governor explained that it was in realisation of this that the governor has been keeping to his electioneering promises since the inception of the present administration in the state.
Banigo assured members of the Bille chiefs Council that the Bonny-Bille-Nembe Jetty would be executed and completed according to the specification in due time.
“Governor Wike is a man that keeps to his promises and I assure you that he will fulfill all his electioneering campaign promises to Rivers people”, she said.
She called on the people of Degema Local Government Area to work cooperatively with the caretaker committee chairman to ensure that the prevailing peace in the area is sustained.
While stressing the need for the people of Bille Kingdom to diversify their agricultural potentials, the deputy governor also enjoined them to be proactive in checking the activities of hoodlums with a view to exposing them to security agents.
Banigo commended the CTC Chairman of Degema Local Government Area, Pastor Agiobu Victor Fubara, for the provision of a boat for the people of Bille Community, and urged them to continue to support and pray for the Wike-led administration in the state.
Also speaking, the Chairman Caretaker Committee of Degema Local Government Area, Pastor Agiobu Victor Fubara, said his policies and programmes were in line with the New Rivers Vision of the Governor Wike-led administration, and called on the people of the area to remain supportive of the government to reap more dividends of democracy.
Earlier in an address read by the Chairman of Bille Kingdom CDC, Asatubo Igbanibo Kemuel, the chiefs’ council commended Governor Nyesom Wike for the monumental achievements recorded within one year in office, and thanked him for the planned rehabilitation of the Bonny-Bille-Nembe Jetty which has been in a state of dilapidation over the years.
Meanwhile, the Rivers State Ministry of Health has assured that it has put in place the necessary steps to prevent re-emergence of Lassa fever, saying that for now, there was no trace of Lassa fever in the state.
The Rivers State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Theophilus Odagme, said this in a statement issued following reports of a Lassa fever incident in Delta State.
The report said a medical doctor from Delta State died at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Teaching Hospital, Nnewi, following symptoms of Lassa fever.
But the Rivers State commissioner for health, however, said there was no need to panic over the news of Lassa fever outbreak in a neighbouring state, assuring that there was no case of Lassa fever in Rivers State.
Meanwhile, the Delta State Commissioner of Health, Dr. Nicholas Azinge, has confirmed that a medical doctor who resides and owns a hospital in Asaba is now dead after contacting Lassa fever.
Azinge said the doctor died three hours after admission at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital after a blood sample earlier collected was confirmed to be positive.
He said the wife of the doctor tested negative while 32 others who had contact with the doctor have been quarantined.
The Delta State commissioner further said the hospital of the late doctor visited has been disinfected.

Joseph Atagana