Minister of State, Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, has enjoined Nigerians to support Madagascar in its quest to invent a cure for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
Mr Keyamo said in a Twitter thread on Sunday that he does not understand the criticisms which have followed the East African country’s invention.
He wrote: “I really don’t know why there’s so much fuss about the Madagascar recipe. Why heavily criticise what a country has discovered to make people recover NOW from the illness, whilst we continue to wait for the almighty vaccine from the @WHO? Or is it because it is an African country?”
“Put in another way, why can’t we make do with what we have NOW until we get what the world is waiting for?” the minister added.
President Muhammadu Buhari had on Saturday received the Madagascan invention, saying he would listen to science before allowing traditional or any new medicines to be administered on Nigerians.
The president was handed the herbal recipe by President Umaro Embalo of Guinea Bissau who brought along with him the samples as shared to African nations by Madagascar.
