bintexhimself: The widow of late Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian who brought Ebola into Nigeria, has defended her husband’s decision to travel to Africa’s most populous country, saying he did so in desperate search for a country with better healthcare system than his own country.

In an article published earlier today, TMZ Liberia Magazine quoted Decontee Sawyer, who is a radio host in New York, as explaining that Mr. Sawyer had no trust in the healthcare system in Liberia and had possibly headed to Nigeria with the hope of receiving better treatment for his ailment.
Mrs. Sawyer shared her thoughts on her Facebook profile from which TMZ Liberia sourced it for publication.

“I’ve read other reports in other papers (not the New York Times) about Patrick’s “recklessness.” I get where they’re coming from, and they certainly have the right to feel the way they do. However, as Patrick’s widow, I would like to shed some light on this from another perspective. One that only I, his wife, would know,” she wrote.

“I knew Patrick better than anybody else (including himself). He had told me many times in the past how much he didn’t trust the Liberian healthcare system. He would tell me about how a person would get checked in for one thing, and get misdiagnosed and get the wrong treatment as a result. On top of that, Patrick was a clean freak, and told me how filthy a lot of the hospitals were.

“He didn’t tell me this, but I know in my heart of hearts that Patrick was determined to get to Nigeria by all means because he felt that Nigeria would be a place of refuge. He has expressed to me many times in the past that he felt passionately about helping to be a part of strengthening Liberia’s healthcare system, but he knew it wasn’t there yet, and he wouldn’t want to take a chance with his life because a lot of people depended on him… Patrick had a passion for life, and he wouldn’t have wanted his to end. So, I bet anything that he was thinking, if I could only get to Nigeria, a way more developed country than Liberia, I would be able to get some help. How ironic.”

Many Nigerians, and even Liberians, condemned Mr Sawyer for traveling to Nigeria despite knowing that he was carrying Ebola virus before embarking on the trip. Some Nigerians on social media have described him as a “biological terrorist” arguing that he came into the country deliberately to spread the disease.

On Monday in Abuja, President Goodluck Jonathan described Mr Sawyer’s decision to travel to Nigeria as pure “madness” and “craziness.”

“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,” President Jonathan said.

In her post, Mrs. Sawyer wrote that the fact that her husband avoided contact with others at the James Sprigg Payne’s Airport in Monrovia as revealed by airport CCTV footage proved he didn’t set out to infect others with the disease and perhaps his actions were that of a dying man in desperate search for help.
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Lucasbalo: Patrick Sawyer's wife is full of crap. Her husband was a dual Liberian/American citizen and he should have gone to America for better treatment than Nigeria .

Lucasbalo: Patrick Sawyer's wife is full of crap. Her husband was a dual Liberian/American citizen and he should have gone to America for better treatment than Nigeria .

folu4real: Your husband thought Nigeria has a good health care, he is totally wrong. Our corrupt leadears never invested on a good health care facility. Why on earth Nigeria why didn't he go to USA that has good healthcare facilities.

Lucasbalo: Patrick Sawyer's wife is full of crap. Her husband was a dual Liberian/American citizen and he should have gone to America for better treatment than Nigeria .

Wht is dis one saying? Must u always put blames on ur leaders. U nigerians re d main reason why d country is not developed cos u don't even apprecaite d little u hv. Wht re ur contributions so far to d development of the country?with the little health care d country has people recover when they visit the hospitals?do all Nigerians travel abroad for treatments?how will d country develop with people like U in it. If it were to be 12th century people like u will be hanged for saying such nonsense against ur country. RUBBISH.

folu4real:


Who told u 2 quote me. I can see u are among d corrupt politician. One day a good leader without corruptible mind will wipe out corrupt leaders. Check urself b4 throwing insult on other people.

O.D.E OMO