By Own Correspondent| Prominent and richest traditional healer in the world, Sekuru Banda has sharply disagreed with a purported message from the American billionaire Bill Gates who reportedly wants to use Africa to test Coronavirus vaccine produced in the United States of America.

Responding to the message, Sekuru Banda said it would be wrong for Africans to be used for experiments adding that any scientists should test their inventions and get WHO approval before they can send it to the rest of the world.

“Africans should not be used as an experiment ground for vaccines invented outside the continent, it is wrong and should not be tolerated,” said Sekuru Banda.

He added that though the world is grappling to contain the deadly virus, Africans should not be taken advantage of and used for medical experiments.

“Experiments can go otherwise and lead to death of people if not done properly and that could be the reason why they do not want to test it among their folks,” added Sekuru Banda.

He thanked the government and its partners including the World Health Organisation (WHO) for the work they are doing to contain the COVID-19 pandemic.

“We appreciate steps taken by government in partnership with WHO to curb the spread of COVID-19, the decision by government to declare a lockdown is also an important move to address the challenge of this deadly virus, we are confident that this lockdown will successfully curb the spread of COVID-19,” he added.

Coronavirus has killed over 50 000 people from the over a million positive cases and has left the world in quandary due to the nature of its spread and death rate.

Zimbabwe has recorded nine confirmed cases and one death.