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Dr
Jeremiah Abalaka
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Remember him? Dr Jeremiah
Abalaka? Well he is back in the news again, over the same HIV preventive and curative vaccines he claimed to have discovered in 1999.
Agency report indicate
that the Federal High Court in Makurdi on Friday lifted NAFDAC’s ban on the use
of Dr Jeremiah Abalaka’s patented vaccines for the treatment of HIV.
The court, presided over
by Justice Binta Nyako, also restrained the Federal Government and NAFDAC from
further interfering with the use of the vaccines.
Abalaka, an Abuja based
medical practitioner, had challenged NAFDAC for banning him from using the
vaccines he discovered in 1999 for the treatment and prevention of HIV.
Joined in the suit were
the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Attorney General of
the Federation.
Testifying before the
court, Abalaka, who also called three witnesses, said he discovered a recipe to
turn the virus in the infected blood of HIV infected person into both
preventive and curative vaccines.
He said he applied for
the patent of the discovery and was granted on July 22, 1999.
“I wrote to health
institutions and authorities in Nigeria to draw their attention to the
discovery to collaborate with me to test and confirm the breakthrough.
“This was in order to
bring succour to sufferers of HIV but the letters were ignored.”
Abalaka said the National
Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development took him up on the
discovery and confirmed the potency of the drugs.
“This was done through a
report on Feb 28, 2000, but the Federal Government discontinued further
collaboration with me and the institute.”
He disclosed that various
agencies of federal government, including its hospitals, had purchased the
vaccines from him and applied them on their own patients who had HIV and many
were cured.
“When the FG discovered
that the vaccines were potent, it sent agents to me with the sum of N10million
for the breakthrough to be announced in Atlanta Georgia, USA, but I refused,”
Abalaka had alleged.
Abalaka said his vaccines
were then banned from being used for the treatment of HIV epidemic in Nigeria
by NAFDAC.
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