Michael Olugbode
11 September 2008
Maiduguri — Village Head of Suleimanti Ward, Maisandari District of Maiduguri Metropolitan Council (MMC), Borno State, Alhaji Bulama Ali, may be dethroned for allegedly driving his wife away over polio vaccination.
Ali's wife offence was that she presented her children to health workers for vaccination. in the on-going Polio immunisation in the state.Speaking to reporters in Maiduguri, District Head of Maisandari, Alhaji Zanna Liberty, confirmed the incident, adding that it was wrong for a traditional ruler who is suppose to educate his subjects on the importance of getting their children and wards immunized to have taken such an action. He said it was the action of such men that still keeps the wild polio virus in Borno State.
He said he frowned at Ali's decision and ordered him to either recall her or face dethronement.In a related development, a polio immunisation programme officer in charge of Bolori II Ward in Maiduguri, Hajiya Maimuna Ahmed, was beaten to a state of coma by suspected youths who believed the programme was against their belief.
The youths, numbering about 10, according to eyewitnesses, descended on the female supervisor who was sighted trying to convince some parents to present their children for the exercise.The irate youths were said to have been brainwashed that the polio Immunszation was geared towards reducing the high rate of births in the North, and was against their traditional norms, values and religion.
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