The Governor of Abia State, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, has urged residents of the state to disregard rumors of immunization of our school children by a military medical team.
This was contained in a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Enyinnaya Appolos.
On Wednesday, schools were hurriedly closed in all the five South East States over allegations that military personnel were injecting school children with Monkey pox in the bid to reduce the population of the zone.
Ikpeazu, however, advised parents and guardians “to immediately return their children to school and be assured that only the state ministry of health can organize, authorize and supervise mass immunization activities in the state as at when due.
“Currently, there is no mass immunization program that is ongoing in the state and we can verifiably confirm that the military authorities are not immunizing school children in Abia State.”
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