Ministry of Health Perm Sec Arrives After Ban Ki-Moon Leaves Polio Eradication Event

The permanent secretary of the Federal Ministry of Health, Mr Linus Awute yesterday caused a stir when he arrived late for about eight minutes after the visiting United Nation Secretary-General, Mr Ban Ki-Moon had departed a Primary Health Centre in Abuja venue of an event on polio eradication.

Awute also tried to rehash the event by vaccinating a child, while his press unit mobilised the press to capture him.

He, however, said Nigeria’s new government needed support to encourage and sustain tempo in “seeing that polio is completely eradicated.”

But Ban Ki-Moon commended Nigeria’s polio eradication efforts, pledging to mobilise necessary resources and financial support for the country to exit polio endemic countries by 2017.

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