Prof. Ben Ayade Charges FG to Invest Funds in Research and COVID-19 Vaccine Production in Nigeria
The Cross-River State Governor ‘Professor Ben Ayade’ has made another set of controversial comments regarding the fight against COVID-19.
Few days ago, he dismissed social distancing as a valid option in the fight and advocated for the use of face masks instead.
Now, he has come out to fault the method being used for testing samples for the COVID-19 pandemic, saying it was not a reliable method, proposing healthy living and good jobs instead.
Ayade, who appeared in a video while speaking with journalists, said the PCRU method was merely for research purposes and should not be relied upon as a testing method.
The governor, who has been known for his divergent views since the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak in the country, also wondered why the Federal Government had not taken steps to begin a COVID-19 vaccine production in the country, saying Nigeria had great professors of virology who were wasting in the various universities in the country.
However, Ayade ‘a professor who teaches immunology’ has suggested that the serum of those whom the NCDC claims that fully recovered from the Coronavirus should be taken to production a Vaccine for this Pandemic in Nigeria.