Lawyers will be lawyers. Reject the $10Million and slug it out in court! The more the case drags on, the more it dents Pfizer public relations and credibility. Ignore the Vultures that are pressurising you to accept the peanuts, enlist the help of the media and the masses to fight it to a logical conclusion. And make sure Pfizer products are banned in the state if possible.

Having been following with keen interest the various attempts to reach a settlement on this matter, I am now convinced more than ever before that those trying to raise the bar in the settlement talks don't really have the interest of the people of Kano at heart. The so-called chairman of the victim's association looks like someone who wants to seize the opportunity of the talks to milk the pharmaceutical company dry. The reference to how much Pfizer or some other company paid in some other unrelated cases is unhelpful because the circumstances are totally different. From what I have seen in this case, and considering the gaffes (such as the case of Anas Mohammed) the government of Kano and the federal government are going to make the patients lose out. We don't have a water-tight case and we are behaving as if we had one. By the time the case goes to trial proper, we will be negotiating from a position of weakness. This is not the time to blackmail Pfizer but a time to negotiate based on the authentic list of patients. Government officials who are looking for ways of dribbling Pfizer's money into their pockets can't claim to be foghting for the people. I hope that reason will eventually prevail and all parties will return to the negotiating table.