The federal government of Nigeria has shown displeasure over the existence of a black market were Covid-19 vaccination certificate is been sold in the country.
Boss Mustapha, the Secretary to the federal government and Chairman, Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19, revealed this on Monday November 15.
According to Mustapha, no vaccination certificate that is procured illegally would scale through scrutiny when their is need for it as all vaccination records had to be verified as authentic at every relevant points.
He further stated that arrangements are been put in place to vaccinate 50 percent of Nigerians by the end of January 2022.
“We’ve received intelligence and even detected that some unscrupulous citizens are procuring vaccination cards through the black market. Let me assure everyone that the vaccination records/certificates will be verified and this should serve as a warning to those criminally minded persons to desist because they will be prosecuted accordingly.” he said
The SGF revealed that the PSC was planning a national summit to end COVID-19 in 2022/strengthening global health security, to mark the end of its nine months mandate.
Revealing that the summit would hold between December 6 and 8, 2021, Mustapha also appealed for greater caution as the virus’ spread is not slowing down, but getting rather more virulent in some places.
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