Professor Haruna Kaita of the faculty of
Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ahmadu Bello
University (ABU), Zaria, yesterday cried
outover what he described as incessant
harassments by security agencies.
Professor Kaita said just when he was struggling to overcome his recent quizzing
by the State Security Service (SSS)in
Kaduna, he received another letter of
invitation from the Kaduna State
commissioner of police. “I am presently on research tour, but ABU’s
security coordinator has told me that he is
in a receipt of a letter from the state’s
commissioner of police inviting meto his
office. No harassment can make met o
change my stance on the polio vaccine being administered on our innocent
children, because I have conducted several
researches and found the vaccine to be
harmful. Science does not require
intimidation before somebody can be
proved wrong or right. I have been asking them to come forward so that we can
publically sit with the proponents of the
vaccine. All thanks are to Allah, I am a
professor of science and I am ready to face
anyone that can discredit my research,
period”, he said. He added, “ the commissioner of police or director of SSS
may not be scientists, but they can bring
their scientists so that we can sit with
them. I think that would give them the
opportunity to discredit my claims, but
resorting to harassment shows that they have a hidden agenda”. Attempts to get the response of the
Kaduna State commissioner of police were
abortive as he did not reply the text
message sent to him. The command’s
Public Relations Officer, DSP Aminu Lawal,
said he was not aware of the invitation letter.
A source however told our correspondent
that the invitation letter was addressed
toABU’s Vice-Chancellor, Professor
Abdullahi Mustapha, who forwarded it to
Professor Kaita through ABU’s security coordinator