Minister of State for Health, Olorunnimbe Mamora, has said
the Federal Government won’t force any state to accept COVID-19 vaccines.
He stated this on Tuesday while featuring on a PUNCH interview.
Mamora was reacting to a statement by the Kogi State
Governor, Yahaya Bello, that he won’t take the vaccines, adding that residents
of his state are not “guinea pigs”.
Nigeria rolled out its vaccination programme against the
lethal coronavirus infection on Friday with about four million doses of
AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine.
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), and
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo were vaccinated against the virus on Saturday on
Live TV to demonstrate the safety of the vaccine. State governors have also
started taking the vaccines to boost the confidence of their citizens to
receive the vaccines.
o, in essence, if a state through the governor or through any other person in that position says that we don’t want the vaccines in their states, we will not force that.
“Our priority will go to states that are willing and are
ready and have even made request to make the vaccines. Even the Bible says,
‘Ask and it shall be given’. We will give to those states that have requested
for it. If a state decides not to ask for it, we are not going to compel such a
state to ask for it.”
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