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Nigerians Want Diplomat Who Escaped Ebola surveillance Punished by Dragonking: 10:14pm On Sep 02, 2014
The Ebola outbreak in Rivers State, which has
led to the death of a Port-Harcourt-based
medical doctor, Dr. Iyke Enemuo, and over 100
residents being monitored, has sparked calls for
sanctions against those who evade Ebola
surveillance.
The Rivers State Commissioner For Health, Dr.
Samson Parker, said the deceased had treated
Olu-Koye, a Nigerian diplomat with the Economic
Community of West African States, secretly in a
hotel in Port-Harcourt, even when he knew that
the diplomat had had primary contact with the
late Liberian-American diplomat, Patrick Sawyer,
who died of the deadly Ebola virus.
Although he was being monitored by health
authorities in Lagos, Olu-Koye managed to evade
surveillance and boarded a plane to Port-
Harcourt, to seek treatment, thereby causing
panic and raising fears of an outbreak of the
virus in the oil-rich city.
Reacting to the development online on Monday,
many Nigerians called on the Federal
Government to sanction the diplomat who
evaded monitoring. According to them, his action
should be treated as a ‘criminal act” as it has
led to the ‘murder’ of the late doctor.
An online commentator, Chukwu Egbekwu, said
Olu-Koye had committed the same offence as
Sawyer, who knew he was infected with the virus
yet defied surveillance to travel to Nigeria,
putting the nation at risk of contracting the
disease.
“This guy’s actions ( Olu-Koye) are not different
from the Liberians who looted an Ebola centre.
He is like Sawyer. To me, he is a criminal. He
has committed murder. The blood of the doctor
is on him. Both of them have proved the fact
there are many educated criminals in our midst.”
Another commentator, Mr. Kayode Soyemi, said
Olu-Koye made a ‘reckless decision’, an offence
that should be punishable in the law court and
treated as a matter that compromises national
interest and safety.
Soyemi posted, “An adult of his standing, who
deliberately acted so recklessly and irresponsibly,
does not deserve to be allowed to exist within
the society. He should be charged for culpable
homicide. Maybe it’s about time we had a law
that will sentence an Ebola carrier, who
intentionally spreads the disease, to death or life
imprisonment.
“We couldn’t do anything about Sawyer, but this
man must be made to face his actions. Olu-
Koye the diplomat should be sacked for this
ignoble role he has played. In developed
countries, having survived the virus, he would
most likely be tried and jailed for bringing death
knowingly to others. Status be damned!
While some respondents demanded Olu-Koye’s
head, others blamed the late doctor for treating
the diplomat, though he knew that the diplomat
had had contact with Saywer.
Angered by Enemuo’s action, they said his poor
judgment had almost marred the heroic efforts of
the late senior doctor with First Consultant, Dr.
Stella Adadevoh, who has been praised by all for
her role in containing Sawyer, when he was
brought to the private hospital.
A facebook post by Tayo Omorinola stated that
the late doctor had acted unprofessionally and
invariably had put his wife, who has been
confirmed to be infected with the Ebola virus,
many patients, his colleagues at the two
hospitals where he was treated and the whole
state in danger.
The post reads,” I am pained. I think the doctor
who accepted to treat his friend should take the
blame, knowing the seriousness of the case. As a
professional, he should have reported the case to
Lagos. Now he has put his wife and child, as
well as other Nigerians, on danger list, while the
friend survived. Millions of Nigerians are now
scared.”
In another post on
Facebook, Anyejuo Ibe said doctors must
recognise their part in containing the disease,
while those who commit similar offence as
Emenuo must be sanctioned in the future and
their licences revoked by the Medical and Dental
Council of Nigeria.
“Did he think he was a super hero? His crime
was greater than that of the criminal diplomat,
Olu-Koye. He should have immediately
quarantined the diplomat and called the attention
of the appropriate health authorities to the case.
I hope that other criminals in doctors’ clothing
are learning from these experiences. Why can’t
they all be like Dr Stella Adadevoh? Just how
much money could one patient have paid him to
warrant risking his life with this virulent virus.
The MDCN should talk to its doctors now,” he
said.
They, however, called on the Federal and the
Rivers State governments to deploy all resources
at their disposal towards containing the viral
disease, as failure to do may put Nigeria on the
list of countries stricken with the disease.

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