Federal and state governments in Nigeria are not serious with mosquito control as part of efforts to prevent Zika virus and contain high toll from malaria disease in the country, National Mirror findings have shown.
The findings also revealed that residents in the country are afraid of possible outbreak of the disease following rapid growth of mosquito population in all regions of the country.
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“There is mosquito everywhere, especially in Kano and Abuja that I have visited recently,” Angeline Paul, a British told our correspondent while departing for the United Kingdom at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Internation Airport, Abuja at the weekend. Last Monday, National Mirror contacted 12 people across the six geo-political zones of the country about mosquito control by both arms of government. All 12 persons spoken with (one person in each state, and two states from each geopolitical zone) expressed fear that the ailments are not far from plunging the nation into crisis, soon. Chinedu Okoye from Anambra state said “this state is a commercial city, and with the level of poor sanitation here, you expect mosquitoes to breed freely.
Government is not helping matter because there is nothing to suggest that we are larviciding here.” A student of North-Western University, Kano, Adamu Mustapha told National Mirror that “they (mosquitoes) are in thousands on the streets of Kano here every evening. If you are visiting the city for the first time, you will understand what I mean.” The situation remains the same in Abuja, Lagos, Adamawa, Ondo among others.
By: Marcus Fatunmole
National Mirror News
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