He said that the Long Lasting Insecticidal Nets (LLINs) was free and as such must not be sold or diverted by those vested with the responsibility to distribute the nets and the beneficiaries of the product.

Mokuola said as important personnel on the health chain in the fight against malaria, he charged the health workers to deliver their services in accordance with the national guidelines.

“Don’t manipulate the result of the test so that you can have the opportunity to sell the drugs to other people.

Mokuolu, a Professor of Paediatrics at the College of Health Science, University of Ilorin, appealed to Nigerians to have a positive attitude towards the use of the insecticide-treated nets.

He observed that the fight against malaria was crucial as Nigeria presently was ranked high in terms of the contribution to the global burden on malaria and related malaria deaths.

He said the country needed to increase her level of commitment to the fight against Malaria so as to get out of this unenviable position it had found itself.

“This counterpart funds are token of demonstration to even encourage other international partners so that they don’t create a dependency on us.

“It is the aggregate of all of these that is going to give us the Nigeria Free Malaria Goal that we have set for ourselves,” he said.

According to him, people owe it to themselves to ensure a clean environment, while also prevent having stagnant water around household to reduce breeding mosquitoes.

He warned people against self-medication of malaria whenever they had a symptom, adding that “it is not all fever that is caused by malaria”.