By Umaru Maradun
Gusau
Regional Conference of Traditional and Religious Leaders on Child Spacing and Child Survival held in Sokoto has called for intensive sensitisation at mosques and churches on child-spacing.
A communiqué issued at the end of a one workshop, titled: “Increasing acceptance of child spacing and child survival through the support of traditional and religious institutions, said religious leaders had a great role to play in educating followers.
The communiqué signed by Aliyu Guraguri stressed that the problem of child death was of great concern to the people in the region.
According to the communiqué, the states of Zamfara, Kebbi, Jigawa, Sokoto and Katsina need to wake up in sensitisation campaign on the dangers of child mortality.
Blueprint reports that the conference organised by Expanded Social Marketing Project in Nigeria (ESMPIN) resolved that traditional and religious leaders should be properly engaged in the sensitisation for easy acceptance.
Participants were drawn from Zamfara, Kebbi, Jigawa, Katsina and Sokoto state.