Pupils and student of Mafoni Primary and Junior Secondary School Maiduguri have fled classrooms and abandoned their examinations over fear of COVID-19 vaccination, Leadership reports.
Pandemonium broke out in the school on Friday when COVID-19 sensitisation team arrived the school with a vehicle mounted with horn speaker.
Believing the vehicle was conveying government officials who had come to administer COVID-19 vaccination, the students fled out from their classes to different directions.
”The school children were running out of the school shouting ” ma’su allura, ma’su allura ” , meaning ” Vaccinators , Vaccinators,” a teacher Amina Usman revealed.
Corroborating the teacher, a security personnel in the school , Ibrahim Ali ,said every effort made to call the students back to classes to continue their examination was abortive, as the students dismissed themselves for the day’s classes.
He said from all indication and being that the state is presently carrying out vaccination against COVID-19, it appeared that parents or guardians of the school children had warned them not to accept the COVID-19 vaccination.
Borno recently recieved 75,510 doses of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccines, and for the moment the state began the vaccination with the frontline workers, followed by top government officials and persons from 50 years and above.
It would be recalled that Borno state government has called on religious leaders to educate and enlighten their followers on the need to protect themselves against the COVID-19 pandemic by taking the AstraZeneca vaccines made available to the state by the federal government.
