The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has dissociated itself from claims by Kogi Governor, Yahaya Bello, that COVID-19 vaccines are meant to kill Nigerians.
In a communiqué at the end of its virtual meeting on Wednesday, the NGF said:
On the ill-fated pronouncement made by a member of the forum regarding the Covid-19 vaccine in a national daily, the forum totally and categorically dissociated itself from the statement.
The NGF said it “will continue to be informed and guided by science and will ensure that every decision it takes retains public and professional trust and is not compromised by conflicts of interest.”
Recall that Governor Bello, in a video that went viral recently, condemned the use of the vaccine, saying it is meant to kill people.
Speaking while addressing a crowd, Bello doubted the authenticity of the vaccine, saying there is no cure for HIV and many other diseases troubling mankind.
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He said:
Vaccines are being produced in less than one year of COVID-19. There is no vaccine yet for HIV, malaria, cancer, headache and for several other diseases that are killing us. They want to use the (COVID-19) vaccines to introduce the disease that will kill you and us. God forbid,” he said.
We should draw our minds back to what happened in Kano during the Pfizer polio vaccines that crippled and killed our children. We have learned our lessons.
If they say they are taking the vaccines in the public allow them take their vaccines. Don’t say I said you should not take it but if you want to take it open your eyes before you take the vaccines.
Bello, in his New Year broadcast, also said that Kogi would not respond to the second wave of the COVID-19 with “mass hysteria.”
