STATE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE
DISCRIMINATORY ACTIONS AGAINST NIGERIANS OVER EBOLA MUST STOP – PRESIDENT JONATHAN
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan said Monday in Abuja that he expects and hopes that Nigerians will no longer suffer discriminatory checks and stigmatization abroad now that the World Health Organisation has certified that the country is Ebola-free.
Speaking at an audience with the Foreign Ministers of Germany and France who called on him at the Presidential Villa, President Jonathan restated the Federal Government’s displeasure over the stigmatization of Nigerians by some countries after the Ebola virus entered Nigeria in July through a Liberian traveller.
The President maintained that there was never any justifiable basis for the stigmatization of Nigerians since Ebola was rapidly contained in the country and never attained epidemic levels.
He told the French Foreign Minister, Mr. Laurent Fabius and the German Foreign Minister, Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier that Nigeria will remain fully vigilant to prevent the re-entry of the virus because the Federal Government recognizes that the country will remain at risk as long as Ebola is active other West African countries or any other part of the world.
Nigeria, President Jonathan assured the visiting Ministers, will therefore cooperate fully with other concerned nations to stop the current outbreak of Ebola in West Africa as quickly as possible.
The Ministers told the President that they were in Nigeria to seek further cooperation with the Federal Government in the growing global effort to contain the current outbreak and continuing spread of the Ebola Virus Disease.
They praised Nigeria’s successful containment of the virus and expressed the desire of France, Germany and the European Union to collaborate more with Nigeria in helping other West African countries where the virus still remains active.
Reuben Abati
Special Adviser to the President
(Media & Publicity)
October 27, 2014
*They should send a formal letter/memo to all embassies in Nigeria.
a.k.a EDWIN CHINEDU AZUBUKO said...
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This is really a bad tym being an african i swear....
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ReplyDelete~@iamjbankz SA to President Jonathan 2015~
Good one. Monsieur le président. Well here in France there is nothing like Ebola Discrimination towards Nigeria. Dalu Stella.
ReplyDelete...AND ACTIONS AGAINST CORRUPTION MUST START. *sips 1759*
ReplyDeleteSipping Guinness? Port belly beckons!
DeleteNigeria govt should ask Gabonese govt why the still dont allow nigerians and nigeria flight into their country.They treat us like shit now common gabon
ReplyDeleteGabon for crying out loud, what are you doing there?
DeleteAnty Stella please make a post on the boarders which have been closed for some months now, Nigeria is Ebola free let the boarders be free biko
ReplyDeleteNice one pressy
ReplyDeleteThis is why success is sweet cos we have been able to curtail abi na contain the dreaded disease that is why we can have a say....Thanks Mr Presido
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ReplyDeleteNgwanu Mr.President call "ponice" for "ndi ocha" na. mtcheeeewwww
ReplyDeleteWe are Ebola free!
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