THE UNITED STATES FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT-INTEGRATED HEALTH PROGRAM (USAID-IHP) HAS SAID IT HAS CONCLUDED PLANS TO BEGIN MASS COVID-19 VACCINATION IN EBONYI STATE

USAID-IHP MADE THIS KNOWN IN A MEETING HELD IN ABAKALIKI THE EBONYI STATE CAPITAL, ALONG WITH THE NEW MEMBER OF THE CONSORTIUM, SYDANI INITIATIVE FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, ENGAGED BY THE COMMISSIONER FOR HEALTH EBONYI STATE DR. DANIEL UMEZURIKE.

THE PROGRAMME OFFICERS CHUKWUEMEKA NEBE AND EZINNE OBETA SAID THAT THE VACCINATION WILL USE TWO STRATEGIC APPROACHES WHICH INCLUDE MASS VACCINATION, AND MOBILE/BUS OUTREACH.

CHUKWUEMEKA SAID THAT THE MASS VACCINATION TEAM WILL CONDUCT FIVE MASS VACCINATION SESSIONS PER DAY, AND 20 MASS VACCINATION SESSIONS WEEKLY FOR 5 AND A HALF MONTHS, WHILE THE MOBILE VACCINATION TEAM WILL VISIT 2 SETTLEMENTS PER DAY FOR FIVE WORKING DAYS IN THE SAME PERIOD.

HE SAID IT IS EXPECTED THAT WITHIN 22 WEEKS, THE TEAMS WOULD HAVE CONDUCTED 440 MASS VACCINATION AND 220 MOBILE OUTREACHES TARGETING A MINIMUM OF 50 PERSONS WITH COVID 19 AND 6 PERSONS, WITH ROUTINE IMMUNIZATION DAILY.

  33,000 PEOPLE WILL BE REACHED WITH COVID-19 AND 3960 WITH ROUTINE IMMUNIZATION BY THE END OF THE EXERCISE.

RESPONDING, OUR CORRESPONDENT IN EBONYI STATE, EMMANUEL NNAJI, GATHERED THAT THE COMMISSIONER FOR HEALTH IN EBONYI STATE, DANIEL UMEZURIKE, URGED THE TEAM TO CARRY-OUT OUT THE ADVOCACY, TO THE CLERGY, TRADITIONAL RULERS, COMMUNITY MOBILIZERS, AND TOWN CRYERS AS THEY CAN CONTRIBUTE TO 60% OF OWNERSHIP AND SUSTAINABILITY.

 

A STATE FACTIONAL CHAIRMAN OF THE PEOPLE’S DEMOCRATIC PARTY (PDP), IN EBONYI STATE SILAS ONU, HAS ACCUSED TOCHUKWU OKORIE WHO IS ALSO STATE FACTIONAL CHAIRMAN OF THE PDP OF CONNIVING WITH STAFF AND MANAGEMENT OF ACCESS BANK, TO CHANGE SIGNATORIES OF THE PARTY’S ACCOUNT AND WITHDRAWING OF OVER FIFTY MILLION NAIRA FOR HIS PERSONAL USE.

 

ONU WHO TOLD BLAZE FM CORRESPONDENT EMMANUEL NNAJI THIS IN EBONYI STATE ALLEGED TOCHUKWU OKORIE CONNIVED WITH SOME NONE STATE WORKING COMMITTEE MEMBERS OF PDP IN EBONYI STATE TO CHANGE HIS SIGNATURE AS THE CHAIRMAN AND THE PARTY’S TREASURER TO PERPETRATE THE ACT.

 

ONU SAYS OKOIRE MUST RETURN ALL MONIES HE ILLEGAL WITHDREW FROM THE PARTY’S ACCOUNT WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT OR FACE THE WRATH OF THE LAW ON FORGERY AND STEALING.

 

WHEN CONTACTED BY OUR CORRESPONDENT IN EBONYI STATE, OKORIE, SAID MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC SHOULD DISREGARD ONU’S CLAIMS, SAYING THE WITHDRAWAL HE MADE WAS USED TO CONDUCT PDP PRIMARIES ON THE 4TH AND 5TH OF MAY 2022 IN EBONYI STATE.

 

 

OKORIE THEREFORE ACCUSED ONU, THE TWO VICE-CHAIRMEN FROM EBONYI NORTH AND CENTRAL,THE SECRETARY, AND THE PARTY’S WOMEN LEADER OF ILLEGALLY TRANSFERRING TEN MILLION NAIRA EACH TO THEIR ACCOUNTS FOR DOING NOTHING FOR PDP IN EBONYI STATE.

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A SUSPECTED VANDAL IDENTIFIED AS SOLOMON IGWE, WAS ARRESTED OVER THE WEEKEND BY SECURITY GUARDS,  OPERATING AT THINKERS CORNER AREA OF ENUGU, ENUGU STATE, FOR VANDALIZING A TRANSFORMER, PROPERTY OF THE ENUGU ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION COMPANY PLC (EEDC).

THE SUSPECT, IN COMPANY OF TWO OF HIS GANG MEMBERS WHO ARE CURRENTLY AT LARGE, VANDALIZED THE THINKERS GUEST HOUSE TRANSFORMER LOCATED AT THINKERS CORNER, ENUGU, AND DRAINED THE TRANSFORMER OIL. THEIR TOOLS AND JERRICANS WERE RECOVERED AT THE SCENE.

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A SUSPECTED VANDAL IDENTIFIED AS SOLOMON IGWE, WAS ARRESTED OVER THE WEEKEND BY SECURITY GUARDS,  OPERATING AT THINKERS CORNER AREA OF ENUGU, ENUGU STATE, FOR VANDALIZING A TRANSFORMER, PROPERTY OF THE ENUGU ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION COMPANY PLC (EEDC).

THE SUSPECT, IN COMPANY OF TWO OF HIS GANG MEMBERS WHO ARE CURRENTLY AT LARGE, VANDALIZED THE THINKERS GUEST HOUSE TRANSFORMER LOCATED AT THINKERS CORNER, ENUGU, AND DRAINED THE TRANSFORMER OIL. THEIR TOOLS AND JERRICANS WERE RECOVERED AT THE SCENE.

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IT WENT FURTHER TO DISCLOSE THAT VANDALS HAVE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF THE POOR POWER GENERATION EXPERIENCED ACROSS THE SECTOR, WHICH HAS IMPACTED THE DAILY ENERGY ALLOCATION TO THE COMPANY, AND ITS SUPPLY AVAILABILITY TO CUSTOMERS.

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