By Stanley Onyekwere
A Philanthropist and former lawmaker, Mr. Ned Nwoko, a former lawmaker has stressed the need for strategic investment in vaccine research, to bolster effort towards tackling malaria in Africa
Nwoke who made this point in Abuja, said that it was pertinent to combat the menace of malaria bedeviling Africa, by investing greatly into vaccine research, even he revealed that his foundation had done a lot in that aspect.
He said his foundation has been engaging professors and some scientists within Nigeria and outside Nigeria; funding such researches, as stakeholders must work towards fostering discovering of vaccines for malaria.
He noted that mosquitoes breed in very dirty environments, as there was need to understand that with clean environment, there will be less mosquitoes.
According to him, malaria could be eradicated by managing wastes properly, because waste management was critical to the eradication of malaria in Africa and Nigeria in particular.
He added that all wastes from homes, streets, offices, had to be collected properly and taken to recycling centres, as what was needed to do effectively was to have recycling plants if Africa must be free from malaria.
“I am proposing to have recycling plants in every senatorial districts in the country, there are 109 senatorial districts in Nigeria.
“Those plants will have three functions. The first one is the recycling of the basic items like papers, plastic, bottles and everything else recycle-able.
” You can imagine the number of jobs that can be created from that alone, from the collection to the recycling plant”, he explained.
He added that the second would be an items called composite, adding that there were food items that could be transformed into fertilizers, manures for farmers.
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