Why Obaseki Is Pushing For Vaccination In Edo, $200 Per Citizen Connection – IMF Official 

AN IMF official based in Washington has confided in Trojan news the reasons why some governments especially Edo state are pushing for covid vaccination in their territory. They are not doing this for the well being of their people but due to the $200 per citizen credit that is credited to the government account.

This facility is as also known as Performance for Results (PFR) facility and that is why you see wicked African leaders especially Nigeria and Edo state government pushing for it.

For instance for every Edo person that Obaseki get vaccinated, the state government gets $200 credit from the $400m facility for Nigeria. This $200 is actually meant for economic palliative for the citizen and additional investment in health care system especially in the poor urban areas and rural slums of the state. This is a world health organization framework.

However please note that Edo state government since the out break of COVID has not given any palliative to any citizen and all the health facilities are in shambles. For the avoidance of doubt if 200,000 Edo citizens get vaccinated the state government will be credited with a whopping sum of USD$40m.

So when you see Obaseki and others pushing civil servants to take the vaccine and other poor citizens this is the Incentive and this is most unfortunate because in actual sense the $200 is supposed to be handed over to the citizen at the point of been vaccinated but the Nigerian government decided to credit it to the states account directly which has now been diverted to other corrupt uses by the governors especially Edo state who have privatized all medical facilities to non indigenes and most of them unqualified doctors from lagos, delta and anambra state.

Officials at the IMF headquarters in Washington have advised that on no account should government force citizens to be vaccinated but they also stand the risk of not getting the PFR facility due to poor vaccination process.