{"id":19438,"date":"2013-11-15T03:25:23","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T02:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=19438"},"modified":"2013-11-15T03:25:23","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T02:25:23","slug":"fg-compensates-families-of-killed-polio-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/fg-compensates-families-of-killed-polio-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"FG Compensates Families Of Killed Polio Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At last, succour came the way of the families of 10 polio health workers who were gruesomely murdered in Kano early this year as the Federal Government donated N3 million each to the family members.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0Pointblanknews.com recall that on February this, unknown gunmen killed polio workers in the northern city of Kano.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Presenting cheques of the money to the bereaved at Government House, Kano, on behalf of the Federal government, Governor Kwankwaso explained that the donation was to augment what the state government and Alhaji Aliko Dangote gave to them shortly after the incident.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The governor eulogized the slain health workers, describing them as patriots who sacrificed their lives in trying to protect communities in the state from the menace of Polio.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He assured that the wicked attack on the health workers will not stop the governmThe Federal government has donated N3 million each to family members of the 10 health workers that were assassinated in February, 2013, during a Polio immunization exercise in Kano city.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Presenting cheques of the money to the bereaved at Government House, Kano, on behalf of the Federal government, Governor Kwankwaso explained that the donation was to augment what the state government and Alhaji Aliko Dangote gave to them shortly after the incident.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The governor eulogized the slain health workers, describing them as patriots who sacrificed their lives in trying to protect communities in the state from the menace of Polio.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He assured that the wicked attack on the health workers will not stop the government from its anti-Polio campaign, appealing to all well-meaning citizens of Kano to joins hands with government to rid the state of Polio and other vaccine preventable diseases.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kwankwaso urged the bereaved families to take solace in the fact that their bread winners died in the service of humanity. 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