By Chinasa Obidi
Kenyan Dr Wahome Ngare, the founding Director of Mercy Health Services, Nairobi, Kenya, has advised Africans to be wary of the World Health Organisation, WHO’s proposed introduction of GMO mosquitoes into Africa to eradicate malaria, as well as malaria vaccine which he says will be made compulsory.
“But malaria is a treatable disease which we have been using our herbal teas to treat, plus we are unaware of the risks such GMO mosquitoes would bring,” he said, calling on Africans to exercise caution in this regard.
He said that while the WHO has done a lot of good things for the continent, it has equally done things that have affected Africa and Africans negatively making him advise African countries to exercise caution.
In a trending video, he expressed this warning while addressing Ugandan President, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni.
He gave his reasons for sounding the warning this: “In 2014/2015, WHO brought a tetanus eradication campaign in our country; a campaign to eradicate neonatal tetanus.
“The vaccine that was used is a different type of tetanus vaccine that is fertility regulating, where they take tetanus and a hormone called Human Chorionic Gonadotropin, and when you inject a woman with that vaccine, she produces antibodies against that hormone and is therefore rendered sterile.Â
“So we are now seeing an increase in infertility cases amongst young couples who are certified okay when examined but cannot get children, or couples who are losing three to five pregnancies before they are able to cary any pregnancy to term.
“We were able to expose this through a paper we published, and fortunately in 2017, WHO said Kenya is now free of neonatal tetanus and they left our country.
“But they developed this vaccine over twenty year of research from 1972 to 1992 and used it in South America and possibly many other African countries. “
Responding to this call, Benjamin Amodu, a professor of Phytho-medicine from the Triune Biblical University, USA, who has been at the forefront of advocating for the use of herbal medicine, said Nigerians and Indeed Africans should also evaluate and verify any treatment or vaccine that is given to them before going ahead to use them.
“I think this is a very common view all around. I think we can cooperate with the WHO in most of the things and we can also evaluate to see that is in line with our own aspiration as a country just like the Ugandan and Kenyan doctors did to their president.
“It is a welcome development. We should ensure that whatever is being brought upon us should be well evaluated to see and if there are needs for modification, they should be modified to the interest of who they are introducing the program to.
” Even their comment on malaria, I think the WHO should be more open. Irrespective of where whatever treatment or vaccine is coming from, so long as it meets the requirements should be accepted and adopted so we move forward.
“I therefore call on African leaders and people to exercise faith in our God-given natural herbs, carry out extensive research and promote it because even diseases for which the cures have eluded modern medicine for decades are being effectively cured with the use of Traditional, Complimentary and Herbal Medicines, TCAM, without any side effects.”
 It would be recalled that Prof Amodu’s malaria cure was evaluated by the United Nations and found to be more effective than chloroquine and palustrine.
