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It is a well-known fact that the vast majority of Muslims throughout the world have been and are being immunised against polio as well as other infectious diseases. To say that immunisation activities in Nigeria were brought to a halt because of ‘exhortation against immunisation by Islamic clerics’ on the basis of flimsy evidence is therefore unbecoming of somebody with a scientific background. In fact, according to a recent report, it is people with a political agenda who appear to be responsible for such a state of affairs. More often than not lack of education among the people themselves rather than the words of clerics is the root cause of the failure to institute a mass immunisation programme in such countries.