Why Civil Servants Must Be Vaccinated – SGF

By Uche Mbah

The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Boss Mustapha, has said Federal Civil Servants must represent Nigeria abroad.

Speaking at a meeting of the Health  Commissioners Forum in Abuja, Mustapha said the Government  wants civil servants to be vaccinated , considering that they sometimes represent Nigeria abroad.

The SGF doubles as the Chairman  of the Presidential  Steering Committee  on COVID-19 (PSC).

Though many countries in Europe and Asia are canvassing mandatory vaccination, there have been massive protests against it by citizens of many countries.

For seven consecutive days, French citizens have been on the streets protesting compulsory vaccine mandates and vaccine passports.

Australia has been inundated with protests. Same with other European countries.

Nigeria boasts of one of the lowest figures of covid 19.

Mustapha charged participants to deliberate on the Challenges caused by vaccine hesitancy.

“You should, in the course of this meeting, deliberate on the challenges caused by vaccine hesitancy all over the country. It is expected that you will come with policy alternatives as solutions,” he said.

“Let me state, however, that the federal government shall, very shortly, unveil its decision on mandatory vaccination for every employee in its service.

“One of the reasons why we want to do that with the federal civil service is because they will be traveling on behalf of the nation.

“Assuming the American government said, ‘you can’t come into their country unless you’re vaccinated, you have to be vaccinated.

“It’s a sequential thing and we are taking one step at a time because we realize we don’t have sufficient vaccines in the country at the moment.”

Meanwhile, the World Health Organisation, WHO, is considering approving more Vaccines for Africa.