Some People Selling COVID-19 Vaccination Slots – FG

The Federal Government of Nigeria has condemned the racketeering and hijacking of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines in some of the designated vaccination centers.

Disclosed by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health, in Abuja on Monday, March 22, Abdullazi Abdullahi, he condemned the selling of vaccination slots which he tagged “unnecessary” as it has been scheduled in phases such that frontline health workers and others at higher risk are vaccinated initially after registration on the portal.

“Everyone will be vaccinated free and everyone will eventually be vaccinated.

“There is no need to pay to be vaccinated,” he said.