Former Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi ll, has called on Nigerians to just accept the COVID-19 vaccine whenever it is available within the country.
Sanusi made this call on Sunday at a sensitization lecture with Nigerian medical personnel living within the diaspora via zoom.
He expressed the necessity for leaders to sensitize the overall public on the importance of the vaccine, adding that only enlightenment and awareness campaigns will make people believe the truth of the disease.
“Leaders should begin and demonstrate an example to the people. they ought to receive the vaccine publicly in order that it’ll function an example and it’ll make them believe the truth of the disease.”
“People won’t accept what the leaders didn’t accept. So leaders should accept for fellow citizens to simply accept , parents should accept for his or her children to simply accept ,” he said.
He called on people to always observe the COVID-19 protocols and accept the vaccine whenever it’s available in Nigeria.
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