Abuja (Reuters)-Nigeria's Inspector General of police (IGP) Muhammed Abubakar, Sunday (10/2), ordered the special safeguards for all medical personnel involved in the routine immunization activities in progress in the country.
Abubakar issued the appeal in a statement received by Xinhua in Abuja, the national capital of West Africa.
Such action is designed after the attack not long ago against health workers in Nigeria.
Three doctors from the Democratic People's Republic Korea (DPRK) is killed by several unidentified attackers in the small town of Potiskum in Northeast Nigeria on Wednesday morning, said police in the State of Yobe State, Nigeria's North-East.
Some unknown guy on the Friday morning of shooting to death nine women health workers in two separate attacks in the State of Kano during a routine polio immunization.
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan condemned the "cowardly" attack, which occurred after a local cleric denounced the polio vaccinations campaigns and several local radio stations broadcast a conspiracy theory that the vaccine was a Western plot to undermine Muslims.
The United Nations and United States have also been accused of murder and the world body says the population "covered from the intervention for basic medical aid".
Conspiracy theories against the polio campaign has spread in the area of Northern Nigeria--the Muslim scholars. Nigeria is one of only three countries--with Pakistan and Afghanistan--that is still polio-stricken.
Special security arrangements also include medical personnel who are involved in other tasks of special medical, said the police chief.
Abubakar instructed the Police Commissioner in the State and Assistant Inspector General of police--especially those who served in the Northern State of Nigeria, to strategize in order to prevent security attacks further. (C003)
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