Crowds trooped to the Gumel Local Government secretariat in Jigawa State on Tuesday after a viral social media message claimed residents with COVID-19 vaccination cards would get a N75,000 cash grant.
Many who abandoned their daily activities were, however, left disappointed when they arrived at the secretariat only to discover that they had fallen for a rumour, as there was no such payment.
Recall that during the COVID-19 vaccination between 2021 and 2023, millions of residents of the state received jabs at designated centres across the 287 wards’ health centres and were issued vaccination cards.
The viral message on WhatsApp and other messaging platforms had asked the residents to come with their vaccination cards to get the purported grant.
One Idris Sani said he came from a village 15km away after getting the message, only to find out that the information was not real.
“I saw on WhatsApp that Corona
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