There was fear in Kwara communities of Omu-Aran, Ilofa, Irepodun and Oke-Ero local government areas of the state after scores of parents withdrew their wards.
The parents action was based on the fear of deadly vaccination in the communities.
The parents in Omu-Aran, had besieged both private and public schools in the area as early as 9:00 am following the wild spread rumour of the presence of the said vaccine injection team allegedly accompanied by soldiers in the town.
Some of the parents, mostly traders and commercial motorcyclists had to abandon their businesses in a bid to withdraw their wards from schools to prevent them from being injected with the alleged vaccines.
The Nation gathered that some schools put their gates in lock and key to prevent the parents from gaining entrance.
Some schools were also forced to engage the service of security personnel when the development degenerated into confrontation between the parents and school authorities.
However, most of the schools had to succumb to the pressure from the parents by releasing the students as the schools are now deserted as at the time of writing this report.
But the state government denied the rumours.
In a statement the Special Adviser to Kwara State Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed on Security, Alhaji Amusa Bello advised members of the public to ignore the rumour as neither the Nigerian army nor any other security agency is currently undertaking a vaccination exercise or any other health campaign in any part of the state.
The state government also called on parents not to panic and to refrain from withdrawing their wards from schools based on this ‘unfounded rumour’.
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