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It would appear lawmakers in Nigeria are trying to pass the Control of Infectious Diseases Bill 2020, also known as the compulsory vaccine Bill into law in secrecy and without a public hearing. The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) accuses lawmakers of getting $10 million from an external promoter to smooth the passage of the Bill in the House of Representatives on Tuesday.
“Where are the economic revival Bills to protect jobs and vulnerable Nigerian workers whose livelihoods are threatened daily by this pandemic? Where are the Bills to compel the Federal Government to look inwards and encourage emergency research for the manufacture of essentials like test kits, ventilators, Personal Protective Equipment, vaccines, drugs, masks, sanitizers etc.”
“Femi Gbajabiamila cannot be trusted. A man who we showed proof that ran away with the money of his dying client and abused his profession which is way we objected to him being Speaker can do anything.
“All opposition lawmakers should prove they are not part of the evil or partakers of the financial inducement and confront Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila to come clean. Let all parliamentary rules be dropped and opposition members should turn the House upside down using their parliamentary privileges if that it what it takes to stop this foreign sponsored Bill.”
“Why make a law for a vaccine that has not been discovered? Does it mean that Femi Gbajabiamila and the promoters have an idea of the vaccine and when it will be ready? When nations like Madagascar are making local remedies which is working, APC is making a law to compulsorily inject Nigerians with vaccines our former slave masters have not yet discovered.”
“The plan to push the passing of the bill is evil. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC did not make any contributions to the drafting of the Bill and has even told Femi Gbajabiamila to suspend the Bill as the timing is very wrong but Mr. Gbajabiamila believes he can secure the silence and acquiescence of the NCDC with all the illegal powers been provided for the NCDC in the Bill hence he still wants to push ahead with it the passage.”