In a bid to eradicate polio completely, officials of the World Health Organization (WHO) paid a visit to the governor of Kwara State.

The delegates led by Dr Fiona Braka met with Gov. AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, raising concerns over the past administration's refusal to collaborate with WHO despite cases of polio within the state. They took time to run analysis of areas within Ilorin metropolis where the Polio virus were identified due to poor environmental hygienes.

Dr Fiona lamented that throughout 2018, the immediate past government had failed to release financial support, and the years they had given support, manipulations in several areas of implementation had rendered the exercise fruitless. She, however, appreciated the governor for the counterpart funding released to the Ministry of Health in order to key into several federal government health initiatives, one of which WHO saw as a pointer of Kwara having a new mindset.

Governor AbdulRazaq, while reacting to several issues raised, assured them that Kwara state was ready to support WHO because his administration lives in the consciousness of having a healthy state and, helping children live a healthy life which will make them compete favorably with their contemporaries is in line with his campaign promises.

The governor thanked the delegate for their visit and also reiterated that Kwara is a secure state open to investors and international partnerships that will put the state at a place rightly hers.

AbdulRazaq also promised to attend to the issue of improper disposal of refuse as proper sanitation policy which will birth a clean and healthy Kwara will be implemented soon.

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