President Goodluck Jonathan today in Maiduguri , Borno State, said it is primitive and a myth\u00a0\u00a0 to say polio vaccines causes infertility in women .<\/p>\n
The President who is on a state visit,\u00a0 took a swipe at an unnamed Professor whom he said \u201cis busy instigating crises saying that if you immunize children, to make sure that they do not have polio, it will lead to infertility\u201d<\/p>\n
The President\u00a0 who warned that anyone who attacked security operatives would\u00a0 not be spared, jocularly described former Borno State Governor, Ali Modu Sherrif as a \u2018friend\u2019 of the late Boko Haram leader, Yusuf Mohammed.<\/p>\n
Jonathan who traced the genesis of the sect\u2019s mayhem to shortly after death of Yusuf said \u201cWhen Yusuf was killed, a friend of Governor Sherriff,\u00a0 that was the beginning of the problem.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the campaign against polio vaccines that has claimed lives of health workers in the north he said \u201cThere is one professor that is saying this \u2026 Where did\u00a0 he learn that from? From which research work? .<\/p>\n
And look at polio, only few countries Nigeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Are we not ashamed that all the countries around us, Cameroun, Niger, Chad, Benin, none has it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the international level, when I go there, I\u2019m ashamed but everybody say, please President of Nigeria, do not import polio to the neighbouring countries. And a professor is busy instigating the people that immunization will cause infertility in women. If there is a way of withdrawing professorship such from someone such professorship should be withdrawn from him because I don\u2019t see how that person can describe himself as a professor\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n
He wondered how such a person should be called a professor saying him as a person would not address him as such.<\/p>\n
On the allegation\u00a0 that the Joint Task Force, JTF, are in the habit of killing innocent persons whenever they lose a personnel, President Goodluck warned that, he would not stand aside and see that\u00a0 security personnel are gunned down in the course of performing their legitimate duties.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet me frank with you because the analogy that when one soldier is killed, soldiers come and kill scores of people. We have always been admonishing that. We always tell the soldiers to conduct themselves because they are doing internal security jobs that ordinarily soldiers are not supposed to be involved. But because of the caliber of weapons the militants are using, police alone cannot stand.<\/p>\n
\u201cGovernment will never sit down quiet and wait for insurgents and some people to take arms and take parts of this country.\u00a0 Never. Whether it is in the Niger Delta but I have been giving directives to the JTF services that one soldier is killed in Niger delta. I don\u2019t want to hear that one soldier is killed the South-East kidnappings. I don\u2019t want to hear that one soldier is killed in Borno state or any part of this country\u201d.<\/p>\n
He further stated that the soldiers have been warned to conduct themselves in accordance with democratic practices reiterating that, \u201cI cannot preside over this country as a president and my security officers are killed. These people leave their families, stay on the road and the bush so that we will sleep. And I will not want to hear that one of them is killed. So nobody should make an analogy and want to celebrate that one soldier is killed. We will not allow or celebrate the death of one soldier, anywhere in this country. We will not and I repeat, we will not accommodate that\u201d,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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