Amid reports that polio jabs being administered to children in the ongoing campaign against the disease are contaminated, more leaders have aired the concerns on the issue.
This follows reports from the members of public that the vaccine might contain family planning components.
Led by the Garissa Women Rep Ms Annab Gure, local politicians have dismissed the rumours circulating in the county that the polio jabs being given to children below the age of five in counties lying along Somalia and Ethiopia borders were not safe.
Gure, instead, called on all mothers with kids below five to present them for immunisation in the exercise that kicked off on Saturday.
Addressing residents in Garissa Town, Ms Gure further demystified the notion that the polio vaccine and immunisation exercise was part of a forced family planning campaign by the government.
“It is very unfortunate that people, especially those living in the rural areas, are still holding on to the misguided notion that the polio vaccine is synonymous with forced family planning.
I want to state that this is not true,” Gure assured the residents.
Locals had vowed to keep way their children from polio vaccination in fear of consuming family planning components in the jabs.
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