Nigerians must change their orientation and disregard conspiracy theories about the COVID-19 vaccines, the Federal Government has said.
This is coming as the Chief of Staff to the President, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari has condcemned the non-challant attitude of the residents of his home state, Kwara, to the pandemic.
Speaking on Tuesday during the inauguration of the state house clinic COVID-19 isolation centre, the The Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 and Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr. Boss Mustapha, said the COVID-19 vaccines are safe, effective and beneficial
Mustapha, who is the chairman of the presidential task force on COVID-19, said the federal government will continue to encourage Nigerians to get vaccinated when the time comes.
The Cable quoted the SGF as saying that the state house clinic will soon get a COVID-19 testing laboratory
We will appeal and explain to our people that if you do not take the vaccine, the danger of falling terribly sick and eventually dying is there,” the SGF said.“We will be blunt to them that if you don’t take the COVID-19 vaccine, you may not be able to go anywhere in the world, very soon. Even when you want to go and perform your spiritual obligation, that will be subjected to your COVID-19 status.
“I don’t believe anyone will spend billions of dollars in manufacturing vaccines in order to kill us in Africa
“From just two molecular laboratories for the testing of COVID-19 in Nigeria, we now have over 100 molecular laboratories, public and private, across the 36 States of the federation