Officials of Illela Local Government Area of Sokoto State have succumbed to demands by locals to construct a road in the area and obliged other requests to allow their children to be immunised against polio.
In response to the demand, the council has constructed a one kilometre road worth over N6 million to link the Nizzamiya-Gada road-Nasarawa in Illela town.
Chairman of the local government, Alhaji Garba Sabon-Gari, yesterday told newsmen monitoring the 10th round of the polio immunisation exercise for 2013 at the council that following the construction of the road, parents allowed all eligible children in the area to be immunised.
The chairman also said he had spent over N 500,000 in the past two months as inducements to parents to allow their children to be immunised.
He cited a woman who allowed her children to be immunised after receiving N10,000 in addition to a promise of free medical care for her children by the local government anytime they fall sick.
The council chairman said there was also a request of grains by another villager before allowing her children to be immunised.
He added that the council has constituted a 60-man committee on polio eradication which he said would adequately mobilise parents on the need to allow their children to be immunised against polio and other child killer diseases.
Source: Daily Trust
