Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of Kano State presneted the cheques to the grieving families on behalf of the Federal Government at the Government House in Kano. The donation, according to the Governor, was given in addition to that which the state government and billionaire businessman Alhaji Aliko Dangote had given them.
The slain workers have been described as patriots who sacrificed their lives trying to protect communities in the state from polio.
He assured that the attack on the health workers would not stop the government from its anti-polio campaigns, appealing to all well-meaning citizens of the state to joins hands with government to rid the state of the disease and other preventable diseases.
The governor enjoined them to take solace in the fact that their bread winners died in the service of humanity. He said the financial assistance given to them was not a compensation but consolation, urging them to make the best use of it.
On the recent discovery of polio cases in some local government areas of the state, Kwankwaso attributed it to the laxity of some health officials and traditional rulers handling routine immunization, promising that his administration would do everything possible to reverse the trend.
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