welcome to candid africa truthful and unapologetic and i want to talk about the issue of access to
vaccines we have made a proposal which is supported by more than 100 countries and
what we have said is we want and this comes back to what the youth were saying as well they want
to know whether they have a continent which will help to develop their skills where they can thrive
but what do we want we want to be able to make our own vaccines and we will deal with the issue
of reluctance for our africans to take vaccines but we want to make vaccines we don't just want to
fill and finish and package which is what we are being offered that we want you to build capacity
to fill finish and package and we will send you the drug substance and we say no we want you to
relax the intellectual property rights for a while so that we can make the drug substance because we
have the capability and there are quite a number of countries on the continent that care and right
now we've got countries like egypt nigeria ghana senegal rwanda south africa and kenya
easily they have the capability the manufacturing capability and we are saying we want to be able
we want to go beyond just getting the substance from europe or wherever feeling and distributing
we want to make the drug substance because that is where the intellectual property resides
and that is where we want our young people who are epidemiologists who are scientists
to see that there is a future for them then they will not go to europe they will not go
to america they will stay here because they will know that they can work effectively and
display all the skills we have now what does the world the the northern part of the world do
they say no we know what is good for you we just want you to do fill and finish
and that's it and we say no we no longer want that you did that long ago when you colonized us
and when you raped and pillaged our countries we saying no now we have the capability and we want
to make all these things ourselves now quite often we find that there is a bit of paternalism that
underpins the relationship between us i give you a very good example after omicron
was announced i was due to travel to west africa and in traveling in the wake of omicron i received
calls from the four presidents that i was going to travel to president makissa buhari watara
as well as akufo nana and they said we've heard about this omicron omicron
are you still coming we want you to come what can we do to help and
and i said president president president if you still relax about our coming we
are coming a plane load of us together with journalists we got on the way before i left
i also got some calls from europe and the calls were so paternalistic they were saying hello
president ramaphosa we've heard about this omri khon i am sorry to tell you that we are banning
travel to europe from south africa and southern africa no discussion no attempt to hear what
our views are and i'm saying that the relationship used to needs to be mutually respectful
we need to respect one another the african presidents respected me as we respect one another
but from europe i just got a message of saying we've banned travel thank you goodbye
see you next time that's not the way to conduct relationship did you like or hate what you heard
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