Laide Bakare urges Nigerian government to scrap Covid-19 test payment for travellers

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Nollywood actress and businesswoman, Laide Bakare, has urged the federal government of Nigeria to scrap the Covid-19 vaccination payment requirement for travellers coming into the country.

The actress, during a live video, said the payment is not longer being accepted by other developed countries.

“This nonsense that is meant to have been stopped for how long? I am really pissed,” said Laide Bakare.for breaking news, videos, and the latest top stories in Nigeria & world news, business, politics, sports and pop culture. “It is a rip-off, how much is N70,000 that they are collecting because of this Covid-19 test nonsense. The portal is not even working very well. I stayed more than three hours trying to fill this form. What I know is that this really needs to be taken care of! Scrap this Covid test verification. I was coming from America to London and there was nothing like that but from London to Nigeria you are asking us to pay even after being fully vaccinated.

 

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This is old story they have stopped since now, you need to verify before tweeting

So, this is yet to be cancelled up till this moment?

Believe me it makes no sense at all . So unreasonably taxed even when everyone knows the proceed goes into private pockets. You may call it medium level corruption .

They are using it to extort people

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