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Ghana’s parliament invited a vociferously anti-vaccine Kenyan and a conservative Dutch activist campaigning to curtail the World Health Organization (WHO) to address visiting MPs on “health sovereignty” last week.
Ghanaian President John Mahama – who is championing African “health sovereignty” via an initiative called the Accra Reset – was a keynote speaker at the WHO’s World Health Assembly last month, and is drumming up international support for the initiative.
Yet Ghanaian Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin, a leader in Mahama’s National Democratic Congress, hosted Dr Wahome Ngare and Wilmer Hak, from ultra-conservative Christian Council International (CCI), and sat back as they made inflammatory and wild claims about the WHO, the Gates Foundation and other health initiatives during their speeches.
Describing COVID-19 vaccines as an “assault”, Ngare accused the Gates Foundation and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) of “genocide” for “gain-of-function” research – erroneously claiming that they are manufacturing viruses to infect humans so they can develop and profit from vaccines...
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