Omu-Aran, Ilofa, Irepodun and Oke-Ero local government areas of Kwara state were thrown into turmoil on Wednesday following the report of deadly vaccination in the communities.
The development forced parents to withdraw their wards from schools for fear of being injected with unknown disease.
It was gathered that parents in Omu-Aran stormed 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 military 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.
Some schools were also forced to engage the service of security personnel when the development degenerated into confrontation between the parents and school authorities.
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.
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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