Nigeria’s Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu has disclosed that the
country’s Ambassador to Liberia, Chigozie Obi-Nnadozie did not have any contact
with Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian man who died of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in
Lagos. The Lagos State Government apologises for the mixed up and blamed it on
the Federal Government representative who was in Lagos during the press
briefing.
The Lagos State Government had said that Obi-Nnadozie was
among the 59 people who had contact with the deceased Ebola Liberian man. Chukwu
said there was a mix up about the Nigerian Ambassador to Liberia and Nigerian
ECOWAS Representative.
A statement issued by the Minister’s Special Assistant on
Media and Publicity, Mr. Dan Nwoweh made the clarification, noting that it “is
the Representative of the ECOWAS President in Liberia, Mr. Babatunde Ajisomo
who travelled to Nigeria on the same plane with the Ebola victim.”
The minister said that it was not the Nigerian Ambassador to
Liberia Mrs. Chigozie Obi-Nnadozie that had encounter with the victim, saying
“that it was a mix-up.”
However, in a statement issued by the Special Adviser to the
Governor of Lagos on Media, Hakeem Bello, the state government apologised for
the mix up, saying that “we wish to correct the error that Nigeria’s Ambassador
to Liberia, Her Excellency, Mrs. Chigozie Obi-Nnadozie, was one of the persons
that had contacts with the late Liberian with Ebola Virus who died in Lagos
last Friday after flying into the country from Monrovia.
"We have since learnt that the official who travelled to
Nigeria with the victim and who was mistaken for Her Excellency the Nigerian
Ambassador to Liberia was actually a representative of the ECOWAS President.
"We hereby tender our unreserved apologies to Her Excellency
for the inconveniencies this may have caused her both as an individual and a
very high official and Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. We however wish to state here that the error was made by
the official of the Federal Government who was at the briefing on Monday and
provided the information at the Lagos Secretariat, Alausa, Ikeja," Bello added.
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