NIGERIA OUGHT TO STRIVE TOWARDS PRODUCING ITS OWN BRAND OF COVID-19 VACCINE, AND NOT GLOAT AND MAKE NOISE OVER THAT OF OTHERS
March 10, 2021 | News
Is it not rather shameful to see how the Federal Government of Nigeria top officials are showcasing and celebrating the event of President Muhammadu Buhari taking his first shot of the recently imported vaccine against the covid-19 pandemic?
NIGERIA OUGHT TO STRIVE TOWARDS PRODUCING ITS OWN BRAND OF COVID-19 VACCINE, AND NOT GLOAT AND MAKE NOISE OVER THAT OF OTHERS
Is it not rather shameful to see how the Federal Government of Nigeria top officials are showcasing and celebrating the event of President Muhammadu Buhari taking his first shot of the recently imported vaccine against the covid-19 pandemic? I cannot even imagine how much they must have inflatedly-budgeted as cost to organize the said ‘President’s vaccination’ against covid-19, judging by the round-table seats ceremony that was televised on National television.
I really do not think all that ceremonious show and publicity was necessary, over something that we did not produce as a country. To think that Nigeria took delivery of 3.92 million doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine through COVAX, and expects another 84 million doses via the scheme said to be meant for poor and middle-income countries this year – really speaks volume of the fact that we prefer, as a country, to be only known for receiving from foreign developed countries, without making the efforts of producing anything, and giving back to the world.
As noted by Smart Ofugara, an Advocate of good governance and development: “Does this calls for celebration of any kind because the President of Nigeria was given a vaccine on Covid-19? Those who produced it, are they not human beings like the Nigerians? The reason for the clap, as President Buhari was vaccinated, is simply embarrassing because Nigeria didn’t produce the Covid-19 vaccine.”
With the way they have been going frenzy over the said covid-19 vaccinations, it shows no iota of effort is being made by the Federal Government of Nigeria to see that Nigeria develops its brand of vaccine against the covid-19 pandemic. That means the Nigerian Government has been waiting and relying heavily on other foreign nations to come out with vaccines, which they intend to then use to save its own Nigerian citizenry from the dreaded covid-19 disease. What a shame! How long are we going to continue relying on others for the health-safety of our wellbeing?
Yet, Nigeria is known to have the best brains in the medical and research fields across the globe. And I believe we ought to be at the forefront amongst African nations looking for the solutions to the covid-19 pandemic. So, if anything, I think all that campaign should be for the President to encourage corporate and private Research organizations/Institutions, and back them up with financial support, to come out with Nigeria’s brand of vaccines against this disease, just like other foreign countries are doing at the moment.
Zik Gbemre.
March 10, 2021
We Mobilize Others To Fight For Individual Causes As If Those Were Our Causes
Is it not rather shameful to see how the Federal Government of Nigeria top officials are showcasing and celebrating the event of President Muhammadu Buhari taking his first shot of the recently imported vaccine against the covid-19 pandemic? I cannot even imagine how much they must have inflatedly-budgeted as cost to organize the said ‘President’s vaccination’ against covid-19, judging by the round-table seats ceremony that was televised on National television.
I really do not think all that ceremonious show and publicity was necessary, over something that we did not produce as a country. To think that Nigeria took delivery of 3.92 million doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine through COVAX, and expects another 84 million doses via the scheme said to be meant for poor and middle-income countries this year – really speaks volume of the fact that we prefer, as a country, to be only known for receiving from foreign developed countries, without making the efforts of producing anything, and giving back to the world.
As noted by Smart Ofugara, an Advocate of good governance and development: “Does this calls for celebration of any kind because the President of Nigeria was given a vaccine on Covid-19? Those who produced it, are they not human beings like the Nigerians? The reason for the clap, as President Buhari was vaccinated, is simply embarrassing because Nigeria didn’t produce the Covid-19 vaccine.”
With the way they have been going frenzy over the said covid-19 vaccinations, it shows no iota of effort is being made by the Federal Government of Nigeria to see that Nigeria develops its brand of vaccine against the covid-19 pandemic. That means the Nigerian Government has been waiting and relying heavily on other foreign nations to come out with vaccines, which they intend to then use to save its own Nigerian citizenry from the dreaded covid-19 disease. What a shame! How long are we going to continue relying on others for the health-safety of our wellbeing?
Yet, Nigeria is known to have the best brains in the medical and research fields across the globe. And I believe we ought to be at the forefront amongst African nations looking for the solutions to the covid-19 pandemic. So, if anything, I think all that campaign should be for the President to encourage corporate and private Research organizations/Institutions, and back them up with financial support, to come out with Nigeria’s brand of vaccines against this disease, just like other foreign countries are doing at the moment.
Zik Gbemre.
March 10, 2021
We Mobilize Others To Fight For Individual Causes As If Those Were Our Causes