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Science minister seeks adoption of nuclear technology to fight mosquitoes
Nigeria’s Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, is advocating the use of nuclear technology to effectively eradicate mosquitoes from the continent of Africa.
Onu made the suggestion in a statement from the ministry’s spokesman Abdul Ganiyu Aminu, on Saturday night at the African Union meeting on Science, Technology and Innovation held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
He said that the application of nuclear technology to eradicate malaria would sterilize the male anopheles mosquitoes which will in turn be released to the environment to mate with the female mosquitoes.
Onu further said: “This will result in a gradual but continuous reduction of the population of the female mosquitoes which are responsible for transmitting the malaria parasites.
“By continuously sterilizing the male anopheles mosquitoes and releasing them into the environment, the population of mosquitoes will continue to decline, ultimately leading to the eradication of malaria.
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He appealed to African nations to strive to rid the continent of malaria, adding that ‘’an Africa free of malaria will be one of the most important legacy we must bequeath or children and generation yet unborn”.
He further said that for the eradication of malaria to be effective, the solution must have a continental-wide application.
“The eradication of malaria is not something that can be achieved by either a single country or even a region in African.”
“If this is not done, any success achieved can be reversed as people who are sick of malaria travel from one country to another,” he said.
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