By Ben Ogbemudia
The Chairman of Prince Ned Nwoko Foundation and the founder of Malaria eradication in Africa programme, Hon. Ned Munir Nwoko has stressed the need for greater public-private sector synergy including multilateral agencies in the quest to achieve a malaria-free Africa.

He spoke at the weekend at Mount Ned Resort in Idumuje-Ugboko, Delta State where he hosted senior United Nations (UN) and the World Health Organization (WHO) delegations.

The event was part of the Prince Ned Nwoko Foundation’s plan to build a wider coalition towards wiping out malaria disease from Nigeria and the African continent at large.

The high caliber officials of the two multilateral organizations hosted by the popular malaria eradicator were the UN Resident Coordinator in Nigeria, Edward Kallon, the WHO Nigerian Representative, Dr. Walter Kazadi Mulombo and many top diplomats, researchers, scholars, and several stakeholders in the Foundation’s malaria eradication project.

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The billionaire businessman and Pan-African statesman, Prince Ned Nwoko, has been engaging the UN and the WHO together with other stakeholders in his relentless campaign to push the anti-malaria program in Africa above the threshold of control and palliatives to total eradication through a multi-faceted approach.

He observed that vaccines were invented against COVID-19 even at a stage when the true causative factors of the pandemic were still a mystery.

He reasoned that malaria disease which has mosquito clearly identified as its cause ought to present a lesser challenge with regard to vaccine research.

Prince Ned Nwoko stated that the same kind of speed with which the entire world came together to research and invent effective vaccines against COVID-19 can be applied to invent reliable vaccines that would deal a death knell on malaria scourge which is still ravaging Africa and some other parts of the world.

He attributed the lukewarm global approach to the malaria challenge to the fact that it is often viewed as Africa’s problem by the developed nations whereas the disease claims over 400,000 lives annually.