₦airaland Forum

EXPECTED DISTRUST OVER PYTHON VACCINATION IN SOUTH-EAST:
BY SIR DON UBANI; KSC, JP, OKWUBUNKA OF ASA,
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
CENTRE FOR EQUITY AND ERADICATION OF RURAL POVERTY.
11TH OCTOBER, 2017.

In human relationship, trust plays a very important role.

Whether it is in the family, Church, commerce or any other human engagement, once there is trust; mutual trust, persons involved would give out their heart in order to guarantee a collective success.

On the contrary, where there is lack or loss of confidence, every body, especially those at the receiving end, would tend to be skeptical of whatever proposal that is brought to the table.

A mother who intends to serve his child with some delicious food for his lunch but starts by forcing quinine into the mouth of the child would end up scaring the child.

The child would develop distrust for her mother. No matter how nutritious the food is, the child would be determined to forgo it.

The Nigerian Army launched its Operation Python Dance 11 in the South-East of Nigeria in the the second week of September, 2017.

According to the Army, the operation was aimed at checking kidnapping, armed robbery, secession and other acts that irked the Nigerian State from the region.

True to characteristics of a python, the exercise in Abia; Umuahia and Aba, ended up a huge catastrophe. Allegedly, many lives were lost.

The trauma of that exercise is yet to leave the people of the region and without any consultation with stakeholders and the attendant enlightenment, the Nigerian Army launched its Operation Python Dance 11 Medical Outreach.

Today in many parts of the South-East, there was pandemonium in many schools.

Hundreds of parents in Nnewi, Mbaise, Umuahia and Aba had been alerted that the second phase of Python Dance 11 had forcefully gone into schools and were insisting on vaccinating South-East pupils with the ill motive of infecting them with monkey pox.

Who would like his or her child to be so infected?

The Nigerian Army, I would like to think, might not be this wicked as to unfold a depopulation script against the Igbo via such a heinous agenda.

But having descended so brutally against the region in the recent past and without adequate consultation with and enlightenment of the populace, the medical outreach could not have achieved any thing other than distrust.

Executive Director.