Following the calculated
premeditated infestation of Nigeria with the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) by the Liberian-American
Patrick Sawyer July 2014, Nigeria has been in state of medical emergency. In appreciation of the great dangers to the
whole world if Nigeria ended up with an escalated Ebola Virus Disease epidemic,
the World Health Organization declared a state of medical emergency in West
Africa.
So far, if the daily briefings of
the Minister of Health of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Lagos State
Government are anything to go by, our response to the EVD imported in to
Nigeria by Mr. Sawyer and his evil sponsors has been commendable. The Federal Government ‘voted’ a whopping
N1.9 billion in the first instance to enable surveillance, quarantine and
treatment of suspects and victims.
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It is disturbing to learn that in
spite of the above efforts and huge sum of money voted, some of those who had
contact with the devil Sawyer who are supposedly, or are supposed to be, under surveillance
and quarantine, had successfully evaded these critical stages in the management
of the crisis. Well known suspects and
victims had surfaced in other locations in Nigeria in a manner indicative of a
written script being played out. See the
triangle of Lagos/Port Harcourt/Enugu.
A nurse who worked on the Sawyer
case at First Foundation Hospital was heard to have successfully evaded
‘surveillance and quarantine’ and traveled to Enugu and met with her family
members leading to twenty people being quarantined in Enugu. To date we do not know how it came to be that
she was able to leave to the East under the circumstances. Is there a chance that there is a clearly
written script that she had a copy of that required the whole Nigeria to be
infested?
Now the news is awash with one of
the primary contacts of Patrick Sawyer who is clearly infected having evaded
surveillance and quarantine and traveled to Port Harcourt where he secretly
obtained treatment in a hotel room leading to the infection of the Doctor that
treated him who has now died. The
doctor’s wife has also been infected.
The question that shoots very sharply at us now is: “how about the
doctor’s children, house girl and house boy, brothers and sisters, friends and
may be parents that he had been living normally with and having contacts with
while playing his game of death with this Patrick Sawyer’s primary contact?”
Is there a chance that the Economic
Community of West African States (ECOWAS) or elements of its workforce in Liberia
and Nigeria are embroiled in a complicity to bring this deadly EVD to Nigeria
and to what ends was this evil hatched?
These questions have come to the fore given that Patrick Sawyer, a while
known Liberian EVD carrier, who had been in isolation in his country where the
EVD had already become an epidemic and, who has been denied access to his
offices and premises by the company he works for, was sponsored by ECOWAS with
approval of the Liberian Government officials that know his condition, to come
to Nigeria ostensibly to attend a conference.
How come he was traveling with a number of ECOWAS officials who had all
contracted the disease now and one of who had died in Nigeria along with him? Too many questions to be ignored. May be these questions would be the subject
of other discourses on this subject in future.
The other day, some friends and I were
discussing the EVD problem in Nigeria.
When we came to the good efforts of the Federal and Lagos State
Governments in this matter, one of us expressed his worries that instead of
mounting surveillance on all suspects and putting them in quarantine to ensure
that the disease is contained, a typical Nigerian official would prefer to put
the money voted under surveillance and, quarantine the funds in their private
bank accounts and other ways they use in stashing stolen public money while
allowing the suspects and victims to run free and infest everyone they meet
with the deadly virus.
There were quite some complaints
last week by families of the EVD suspects and victims that their relations who
caught the disease are abandoned to die.
The Lagos State Government has also reported at a time that they had not
received the N200 million that the Federal Government promised to provide to
the State Government to support its laudable efforts and of course, the burden
to deal with the EVD emergency in Lagos.
With the huge sums voted, one expected that the suspects would be
provided with enough opportunity to stay alive if they are not infected with
the deadly strain and if so infected, to be supported to die in a happy state
of mind.
What the Nigerian Federal and the
Lagos State governments had done so far as we have learned in the
pronouncements are commendable. I plead
with officials assigned with the responsibility to manage the Ebola Virus
Disease health emergency funds in the West African sub-region and Nigerian
officials in particular to PLEASE not put the funds voted for this emergency
under surveillance and quarantine.
Quarantining the money voted for this medical emergency would certainly
bring curses worse than EVD on them and their families.
Remember the servant of Elisha in
the Judeo-Christian Bible.
