Friday, August 15, 2014

The Zillion Dollar Question:Ebola in West Africa,A Bio-terrorist attack or a natural disaster?


In a bid to unravel some controversies regarding the invicble terror in the West African region,speculations have started pouring in with so many people sighting this ebola epidermic to be a biological terror against the people of West Africa probably because that's where all the natural wealth in the world like crude oil,diamond,tin,iron ore,Gold,etc is concentrated!

 Taking a flash back to as far back as March of this year 2014, Foreign ministers of West African countries including Nigeria met under the auspices of ECOWAS in Ivory Coast, to discuss the Ebola epidemic that was then taking hold in Guinea and would gradually spread into Sierra Leone and Liberia. In a communiqué issued after their meeting, they declared Ebola a ‘serious threat to regional security.’ 

Unfortunately according to report by Ynaija ,there's no memo from our Minister of Foreign Affairs, or the two Ministers of State, Violet Onwuliri and Nurudeen Mohammed, to the presidency about the seriousness of the issue, especially after attending the ECOWAS meeting as well as to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Department of State Security – DSS – Police,
 Immigration and Port Health Authorities about the seriousness of the Ebola virus and its threat to our homeland security? 
In April of this year,the Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, informed Nigerians on national TV that the Federal Government had taken all measures to prevent the outbreak of Ebola in the country tho,but it turns out, there were no health screening checks at the nation’s airport until after the Liberian, Patrick Sawyer, attacked the nation with biological terrorism. It makes one ask the question, how long will we continue to exhibit this behaviour of not taking public service seriously? According to Ynaija,they wants to know when will elected officials begin to see their offices as a true opportunity to provide services to their country and her people? 

arguing that they had the better part of six months to prepare our borders and formulate a response to Ebola, to identify it as a strategic threat to our national security and well-being. but did nothing until the sudden attack on the motherland Nigeria; then rushed into action.
 Looking at this critically as Nigeria battles its worst epidemic outbreak in recent history, it is worth pointing out certain issues concerning the deadly Ebola virus. These issues should not be allowed to go under the radar as our failures give further evidence that Nigerians are caught in a helpless situation!!!
Comparing Nigeria  to more serious nations like the UK, who on hearing of the Ebola outbreak in Nigeria, convened a COBRA meeting chaired by their Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond. This was based on the fact that they realised that Nigeria is the most populous nation in Africa with lots of visitors to the UK. The circumstances of the disease arriving in Nigeria mean that it could also arrive at their own borders if all the necessary precautions were not taken. Isolation units were quickly prepared at some major hospitals. Immigration and port health officers were put on alert, while internal memos were sent out to all NHS doctors and GPs across the country to look out for cases of people just returned from Africa with complaints of fevers or malaria. That is a country that understands what it is like to handle public service.
It is the same with Senegal who has closed her borders to neighbouring Guinea since March. Mauritania followed suit the same month by closing most of its borders with Senegal. Gambia suspended air travel and the launch of a new air carrier to Guinea. This shows that just like the UK, there are other African countries who understand what public service means and are not into the buffoonery of joking with the lives of their people the way that Maku, Wali, Onwuliri et al. have done with Nigeria.
This makes Ynaija to ask this question " is this a normal out break or terrorist attack,cos this is nothing less than bio-terrorism" Quoting the source it says; "There is a possibility that the Liberian government might have a hand in it with the thinking that if Nigeria were attacked with the virus, it would bring international attention to their plight and rescue their country from the epidemic. I’m not making accusations against the Liberian President Ellen Sirleaf-Johnson as she might not be aware of such decisions within her government, but it is a possibility that someone in her government could have ordered the attack". arguing that; "What about the possibility that sympathisers of ex-Liberian warlord Charles Taylor could have set-up the attack to teach Nigeria a lesson. He has many sympathisers still in the Liberian government who are possibly not happy with the role we played in handing him over to the International Criminal Court in the Hague to be tried on war crime accusations".
 Talking about Sawyer according to report, It took investigations from Premium Times to discover that Sawyer worked for a private company – Acelor Mittal – and not the Ministry of Finance in Liberia as claimed. The Deputy Minister of Finance in Liberia, Sebastian Muah, who authorised his travel now claims that Sawyer was a Public Health officer. 

It all shows that there is a cover up somewhere with Sawyer having used a false identity to be allowed to travel and that Nigeria has been biologically attacked for reasons quite unclear. I do not need to go into all of Sawyer’s actions while caught on CCTV, before he left Liberia, and his contrasting actions when he landed in Nigeria. They include borrowing the mobile phone of the ECOWAS contact who met him at the airport – who is now dead – the fact that he told lies about his condition at the hospital in Lagos, yanking off his Intravenous (IV) infusion and splashing blood all over his bed sheets and hospital ward. Reports that he deliberately urinated on the floor and on nurses treating him, show that it was a predetermined bio-terrorist attack, but what we need to unravel is who was behind it and why? One wonders why he insisted on being allowed to proceed to Calabar to do more damage, especially considering that Calabar was Charles Taylor’s last known base in Nigeria and that whoever sent Sawyer might have wanted revenge on the people of Calabar who reported Taylor’s movement to security agencies and prevented his escape the year he was arrested and handed over to the Hague.
some how,this is the situation in your darling west Africa,but the question is whatis the next thing to do to end this demonic raid on our mother land?

....send your suggestions and control measure via comments so that we can kick out this dare devil from our land cos its better to build estate for more people to live happily all day than this one that we are building isolation centers just to house demons!...God bless Nigeria!

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