Migrant bats have started to
return to Benin City, the Edo State
capital few weeks after the
outbreak of the Ebola virus.
The bats which nested in their
thousands on trees at the Oba of
Benin palace and surrounding
trees around the city centre are
also a delicacy for some persons.
It was learnt that the bats started
returning last week.
A photographer, Stephen Idoni,
runs a shop at the premises of
the Oba Akenzua Cultural Centre.
The shop is under a tree
currently housing thousands of
bats.
Stephen told the Nation that the
bats used to nest at what is now
known as Ugbowo but said the
bats have now moved to the city
centre.
He said he was not afraid of
contacting Ebola virus from the
bats nesting above his shop
because the bats has been a
source of meat to many persons.
According to him, “Why will I be
scared of these bats? I am too
loaded with the Holy Spirit to
contact Ebola. Ebola is an
international witchcraft at work.”
“It cannot happen to everybody.
People used to come here to kill
the bats and eat them. Those
people are still alive. The white
people are telling us stories.
These bats started returning
recently. We did not see them for
some time now.”
“I think they should find out
what brought Ebola. If one bat
fall down now, you will see
somebody coming to take it.”
Many of the bats were seen atop
the tree.
Source Nationnewspaper

So you want to pin the ebola on the 'Oba of benin bats'. If you are just new to benin, let me school you.
these bats have been residing close to the oba of benin's since 1914, so don't connect ebola with the recent bats movement.
it doesn't hold any weight. and the journalist is a fool to say edo people eat bats, idiotic journalism with no evidence