BY Taye Obateru

Jos—Former Defence Minister, Lt.-General Theophillus Danjuma has called for concerted effort to eradicate river blindness in the country, saying the war was far from over.

He made the call at the commissioning of a centre owned by the Mission to Save the Helpless, MITOSATH, a Jos-based non-governmental organisation, insisting that any premature end to the fight would be costly.

He said he got involved in the war against the disease based on personal experience and having relative and friends who are afflicted by the disease well as to ensure that the war was not ended abruptly without victory.

He said: “We haven’t finished the job yet. It is heart-breaking in the 21st century to watch lives continually destroyed by river blindness.”