Kebbi rejects MSF-linked report on child deaths

The Kebbi State Government has dismissed a study linked to Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) connected kid deaths successful the state, describing it arsenic false, misleading, and wholly inconsistent with the existent realities successful Kebbi State.

In a connection issued by the Governor’s Special Adviser connected Media and Publicity, Yahaya Sarki, the authorities said the study claimed UNICEF information showed that astir 30 newborns and 100 children nether the property of 5 dice each time successful Kebbi, with fractional of the deaths linked to malnutrition.

According to the government, MSF’s Public Relations Officer successful Nigeria, Abdulkarim Yakubu, aboriginal clarified that the figures were based connected information from 2018 and were ne'er intended to correspond the existent concern successful Kebbi State.

The authorities said this clarification proves the statistic bash not bespeak the contiguous concern and created “a misleading content susceptible of causing unnecessary nationalist anxiety.”

It besides criticised the usage of outdated figures, saying planetary organisations should guarantee that immoderate information released is accurate, decently explained, and does not make mendacious impressions.

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