Stakeholder urges intervention over river blindness in Taraba community

A acrophobic stakeholder successful Ardo-Kola Local Government Area of Taraba State, Yunusa Ahmed Danjuma, has called connected governmental leaders and different stakeholders successful the country to urgently intervene implicit what helium described arsenic the increasing load of onchocerciasis, commonly known arsenic stream blindness, successful Murbai community.

Danjuma made the telephone on Friday in an unfastened missive addressed to the Executive Chairman of the council, Umar Bello Badawaire; the subordinate representing Ardo-Kola Constituency successful the Taraba State House of Assembly, Happy J. Shonruba; and the subordinate representing Karim-Lamido/Lau/Ardo-Kola Federal Constituency, Abdullahi Muhammed Lauya.

The entreaty was besides directed to Senator Shuaibu Isa Lau, representing Taraba North Senatorial District, arsenic good arsenic sons, daughters and different stakeholders of Ardo-Kola, urging them to mobilise efforts to code the wellness concerns confronting residents of Murbai.

According to Danjuma, residents of the assemblage were allegedly suffering from the effects of onchocerciasis, with immoderate losing their sight, livelihoods and dignity to a illness helium described arsenic preventable and treatable.

He said the concern required urgent authorities attention, peculiarly due to the fact that the affected communities beryllium heavy connected their situation and rivers for farming and different economical activities.

Danjuma questioned th...