 The House of Representatives has passed the bill for the establishment of a vaccine production center in the country for second reading. They say this has become expedient due to shortage of vaccine for numerous ailments ranging from malaria, polio, Ebola, laso fever and now COVID-19 for less developed and developing countries. Plus TV Africa's Emmanuel Ehigene completes the report. Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020 developed countries of the world have had the advantage of vaccinating more of our citizens unlike the underdeveloped and developing countries which have continued to record low number of vaccinations. It is against this backdrop that federal lawmakers and the green chambers are calling for the establishment of a vaccine research and development centers to breed the gap. Honorable Kasimum Meigari from Adamua State is the sponsor of the bill. To promote research in our vaccine for treatment and cure of diseases and to make provision for general administration of the center and for related matters. This bill is for establishment of the vaccine development and research to enable Nigerians to develop our own vaccine Mr. Speaker. We are all living witness the billions we expanded just to procure the vaccine for coronavirus. Mr. Speaker there's so many diseases that are unknown to other nations. Develop nations are not even aware of the existence of these diseases in our country. Lawmakers unanimously support the bill while the suggestion for rehabilitation and upgrade of an existing center in Platu is raised. Mr. Speaker let me say that given the manner in which the western world have so abused the fact that they have the technology to produce vaccines it has become very imperative that Nigeria should have a vaccine center where they can research effectively specifically for vaccine production. When Ebola came we were taken by surprise and it was difficult for us to even be able to cure Ebola. It was just by trial by error that we were able to resolve the issue of Ebola. Not that we were able to get a vaccine that we can say yes this can cure Ebola. It was just by accident that we were able to come out of it. The bill is unanimously adopted when put to vote by the presiding speaker Idris Wasi. Hello hope you enjoyed the news please do subscribe to our youtube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates