'God sent Meningitis outbreak to punish Nigerians for fornication' - Zamfara state Gov. Yari
The Zamfara State Governor, Abdulaziz Yari, on Tuesday said the ongoing outbreak of Type C Cerebrospinal Meningitis in some parts of the country is God’s way of showing his anger against Nigerians for turning their back on him and flagrantly disobeying him. According to Yari, God decided to send the Type C of the disease, which had no vaccine, as punishment for the people after they made fornication so rampant. Yari said this in an interview he granted in Hausa shortly after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Naming fornication as one of the sins which might have made God to inflict the country with the disease, Governor Yari said: “What we used to know as far as meningitis is concerned is the Type A virus. “The World Health Organisation has carried out vaccinations against the Type A virus not just in Zamfara, but many other states. “However, because people refused to stop their nefarious activities, God now decided to sen...