The governor of Katsina state, Alhaji Ibrahim Shema has threatened to sack council chairmen and village heads who are not prepared to promote the fight against polio in the state.

Speaking in Katsina while flagging off polio routine immunization exercise in the state at the headquarters of Ingawa Local Council, Alhaji Shema read the riot act saying any local council chairman who allows a child in his local government council to be attacked by the polio virus will be attacked by political polio.

He warned that the state government will not entertain laxity by any of the agencies charged with the responsibility of providing services to the people adding that antenatal services for pregnant women, children and elderly people in the state, is free.

The governor declared that the state government will do everything within its capacity to work with the National Primary Health Care Development Agency to see that Nigeria as a country eradicates polio.

Also speaking at the flag-off, the Executive Director of National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr. Ado Muhammad disclosed that three new strategies have been employed by the agency in ensuring that every child is vaccinated.

According to him, the strategies include the Geographic Information System (GIS) device, involvement of traditional and religious leaders and constant and effective mobilization by the officers of the agency.

The WHO over the weekend claimed that Nigeria is the country with the highest figure of poliomyelitis cases in the world, as Nigeria is the only country in the world to have all three types of Polio virus—Type 1, Type 3, and circulating vaccine-derived Type 2 viruses.