Posted by Elizabeth Edozie on Oct 27, 2019
 
The District Governor of Rotary International, District 9110, Nigeria, Dr. Jide Akeredolu, and the Chairman of Nigeria National Polio-Plus Committee (NNPPC), Dr. Tunji Funsho, on Saturday, October 26, 2019, led Rotarians, Rotaractors, and friends of the district on an 11km walk around Ikeja in Lagos state.
 
The walk is part of Rotary International’s annual polio campaign but this year, it took a different dimension in Nigeria as the country recorded three years of zero case of polio in August. The participants paraded the streets of Ikeja in a “Keep Polio @ Zero” inscribed t-shirts which is quite different from the “End Polio Now” inscribed t-shirts worn during the walk in previous years.
 
 
The walk is part of Rotary International’s annual polio campaign but this year, it took a different dimension in Nigeria as the country recorded three years of zero case of polio in August.
 
 
The participants paraded the streets of Ikeja in a “Keep Polio @ Zero” inscribed t-shirts which is quite different from the “End Polio Now” inscribed t-shirts worn during the walk in previous years.
 
The Rotarians also leveraged on the walk to celebrate the country’s zero polio achievement which is as a result of collaborative efforts, particularly from Rotarians of the four Rotary districts in Nigeria and in the world at large.
 
 
The public were also further sensitized on the need to prevent any re-occurrence of fresh cases of polio by ensuring their children and wards who are between the ages of 0 – 5 years are immunized and that the immunization message continues to spread in all parts of the country.