Some Nigerian health workers collect bribes and issue COVID-19 cards to individuals without administering the vaccine, investigations by the Media Advocacy West Africa Foundation have shown.
To get hold of admissible evidence of how health workers carry out these corrupt practices, the MAWA Foundation, undertook undercover investigations in the states below.The MAWA Foundation officials in efforts to find out how health workers in Plateau State are collecting bribes and issuing COVID-19 certification cards without administering the vaccine, visited Jos the Plateau State capital, and spent a number of days.
The act was carefully carried out by the health workers to ensure there is no trace of fraud anywhere. Perfecting the act, the health workers, ensure our data was carefully uploaded on the National Primary Health Care Development Agency COVID-19 vaccination platform, while we received SMS from the agency showing that we have been administered the vaccine.
The health worker, however, blamed the practice on the contradictory and diverse narratives that have made it impossible for people to have trust in the vaccine and appealed to the government to put in place an effective communication strategy that will lead to proper education and awareness on the safety of the vaccine. And, in that way, many will take the vaccine.
To penetrate the health workers and get them to issue us a COVID-19 certification card without administering the vaccine, we made use of the locals who presented us to them as people who are genuinely in need of the COVID vaccine certification card. One of the health workers told MAWA team that individuals who desperately need the COVID-19 vaccine certification card, especially those traveling abroad are made to pay N2, 000 for the card without vaccination.
MAWA officials spend days at Gombe investigating how health workers collect money and issue vaccine certification cards without vaccination. The cards are issued to individuals depending on your bargaining power and who is helping you to negotiate. When MAWA Foundation contacted Gombe State Primary Health Care Development Agency, a senior official of the agency who did not want his name mentioned, said he has no authority to speak on the issue.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
They w8ll be caught and persecuted but the real armedrubbers are celebrated
Unconscionable
You should stop promoting this news online! The international bodies are reading it and May stop travellers from travelling because of this unchecked and unverified news!
No be Nigeria again 😂😂🇳🇬
Zoo needs in-depth sanity 😮
Please not every thing you will be putting here... The rest of countries are following the news happening in here.. Before you know it they start to restrict Nigerians from entering their country.. Please stop and stop
Normal things... If na u don't collect lolz...Naija zoo.
1st I don't trust COVID-19 vaccine in Nigeria. Our leaders and the very rich are traveling abroad to get vaccinated.
Is it true that people pay to get covid19 vaccine in Nigeria: those who took 1st dose are unable to take second dose?
A bias media that from time to time publish unverified story can also be corrupt.
Very bad
I won’t blame them anyway because I believe HIV is far better than the vaccine that is in the Zoo Nothing good can come out of the zooo called Nigeria. We should be thanking the health workers for not allowing the people to be injected with poison. 1/2
Sahara mind your business. They're national hero's.
This SR sef, wetin concern una, abi na una body? Card is Card wether with vaccination or without
Always trying to cheat the system even at the face of dead. Sack this entities
This shouldn’t be a news. Our leaders are doing worse. Do you think our leaders are not also paying to get the yellow fever card without taking the vaccine? Abeg make una rest. Vaccine should be by choice and when people are being coerced to take it, they will device other means
Lollzzzz...very true..some of them will give you the jab and sell your card to the highest bidder.
Not worse than abba kyari
Very Real esp
Na today this has been going on for a long time. Infact some collect money to give you the vaccine now.
Lol, even me too paid for the vaccine I never took. This is nigeria
This is Nigeria 🇳🇬 🤣🤣🤣 FG workers.
Is not a new thing but God will help us
Nigeria na your mate? Corruption dey everywhere
Pretty Bad, funny enough this ain't the only country indulging on that.
I wonder why WHO will choose Nigeria among those countries to produce Vaccines, with this corrupted government smh.
Nigerians bribe Nigerians to get everything. The citizens are taking a lead from the leaders. Bribe in Nigeria is as old as the country. Some people are bribe everywhere including the mortuary in government hospitals. This bribe for everything is one hell of a problem in Nigeria
They are following after Abba-Kyari footsteps!!!🧐
Yes, the day I went to collect Covid vaccine, someone asked me, if I want the vaccine or the card, since then, I knew this vaccine nonsense in nigeria is pure scam!
Na small thing compared to what politicians are doing, a country where high ranking police officers traffic drugs, magu was removed but not charged, individuals own oil wells that belong to all Nigerians, yahoo boys are always arrested but less than 1% get sentenced
Lol...and this is news? 😂
Unlawful country
I don't get Nigerians. This is not abroad where there are restrictions for unvaccinated. Nobody will beat you. The public sentiment towards anti-Vaxxers is largely favourable. Why this gymnastics🙄
E ti ri nkan kan
The corruption wey dey this country dey shock devil
Illegality is Normal in Nigeria. Nigeria is a place that makes the Abnormal to be Normal and the Normal to be Abnormal.