By Donald Iorchir
Federal Capital Territory (FCT) area councils have commenced the 2018 measles, cholera and polio immunisation campaign with public enlightenment programmes targeted at remote areas of the Territory “where strict adherence to religious and cultural practices have prevented vulnerable children from benefiting in the annual vaccination exercise.”
It was gathered that the six area councils resolved recently to “properly mobilise and sensitise community leaders, traditional rulers, religious and political grassroots mobilisers, health workers and other stakeholders to help scale up the immunisation exercise this year following reports of marginal success in previous campaigns which could not cover the population in rural communities.”
Speaking at one of such village square gatherings, the Chairman of Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), Alhaji Abdullahi Adamu Candido, urged community leaders to speak out against religious fanatics who prevented parents from participating actively in the immunisation campaign.
He said “when community leaders add their voice in support of the inoculation and parents allow their children to be immunised against killer diseases, there will be marked a difference in government eradication effort.”
The chairman explained that AMAC and the other area councils strategised and decided that only the active involvement of community leaders in the anti- polio, measles and cholera campaign would help facilitate widespread acceptance by villagers and the success of the campaign especially in remote communities.
He called on stakeholders in the six area councils to rise up “against the challenge of misinformation to enable the FCT raise generations of healthier children free from cholera, measles and polio in the near future.”
Candido also urged “total synergy” among stakeholders, charging community leaders to ensure that their “subjects come out in large numbers for successful cholera, measles and polio immunisation when the campaign commences on February 8, 2018.”
LEA scribe insists on capacity-building for teachers
By Donald Iorchir
The Secretary, Kuje area council’s Local Education Authority (LEA), Comrade Danladi Bulus, has said capacity building for teachers should be encouraged at all levels to enhance teaching and learning.
He said through capacity building teachers and students would be acquitted with the current realities in the education sector, especially at the early stage of children education.
Bulus stated that the LEA had made arrangements to hold workshop for all teachers and other staff of the education Secretariat.
According to him, the programme was part of his administration commitment to ensuring that the standard of education in the council is upheld.
He was not specific on the date but said, as soon as the plans in progress are concluded the training workshop would kick-off across the 10 political wards of the Council.
The LEA boss said the workshop would be done base on group arrangement to ensure that all staff benefit from the exercise, which he said “will commence soon.”
Also, on staff transfer he insisted that there was no going back on redeployment of teachers, “especially those who have stay more than four to five years in an area.”
He said the transfer was ill-informed but to promote standard through exchange of ideas by people from different disciplines.
