President Goodluck Jonathan Monday described late Patrick
Sawyer actions as pure ‘madness’ and craziness.
Jonathan made the statement at the annual Interfaith
Conference in Abuja. The president who expressed his disappointment with the
way and manner Sawyer brought Ebola to Nigeria assured citizens that government
is ready to stop the disease.
“As a government, we promise that we will do everything
humanly possible to contain the Ebola
Jonathan informed the gathering that the federal
government planned to rally the 36 states governors and their Commissioners of
Health to rescue the nation from further spread of the disease.
“On Wednesday, I will meet with governor of the states,
and they must come along with their commissioners of Health. We must make sure
that every state is prepared, where they lack, the federal government will
support them,”
The president said that his discussion with the head of
WHO has given him more information about the virus assured the gathering that
the virus will be stopped from causing more harm.
“My conversation with the WHO DG, Dr Margaret Chan was
revealing, she said 60 per cent of the transmission was spread during burials.
That is why in my announcement, I’ve been saying that people should be careful
about burials.”
“Some people like burial ceremonies. This is not the time
for burial ceremony, somebody is dead, he is dead, leave him there. This is not
the best time for those ceremonies.”
“If he is dead, he is already dead, Sawyer that brought
this Ebola to Nigeria; his sister died of Ebola. And he started acting somehow,
his country asked him not to leave the country, let them observe him, but the
crazy man decided to leave and found his way here.”
Meanwhile, the federal government Monday said one new
case was recorded over the weekend, bringing the number to 10.
Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu stated this
Monday in a press conference on the update of the Ebola Virus Disease(EVD).
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