Beware of fake COVID-19 vaccine, NGO warns public
Beware of fake COVID-19 vaccine, NGO warns public
From Fisayo Akinduro, Osogbo
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Non Governmental Organisations in Osun State have alleged that there is an impending compulsory chip-based mass vaccine to be introduced as a primary condition to close the COVID-19 pandemic.
The groups, Living Science Foundation and Christian Initiative for Nation Building raised the alarm through a communiqué drafted after an online press conference and made available to newsmen in Osogbo .
The communique was signed by the duo of Joshua Ojo and Samuel Ogini on behalf of the two groups respectively.
According to the communique, the purpose of the conference was to discuss the increasingly touted position by responsible authorities, local and global, that the ongoing restrictions and lockdowns in response to the COVID-19 pandemic can only be fully lifted upon the development of “a vaccine that protects everyone”.
It added that there are tangible moves by major global authorities to declare the availability of a vaccine as a primary condition to close the COVID-19 pandemic.
It further alleged that, the vaccine(s) being touted will be mandatory for the general population, and therefore would require “fake-proof” certification to be provided, using the recently unveiled chip-based digital identity ID2020 scheme.
“The scheme has been specifically described as a program to leverage immunization as an opportunity to establish digital identity.
“This imminent mandatory chip-based mass vaccination would be introduced first at selected soft-target countries of which Nigeria is prime, based on our attractive population size and economic potentials; our weak and vulnerable governance structures which have been further compromised by ongoing COVID-19 problems; and the crashing oil prices which has further weakened government’s resilience against external pressures.”
The communique therefore highlighted the decisions and declarations of the conference to include the call for mandatory chip-based mass vaccination as not justifiable and not acceptable in Nigeria.