...they should arrest the culprits.
So as to deter others from peddling and joking with sensitive issues like this in our dear country. There will always be a scape goat!
Let them pay for it. Only God knows how many lives have been endangered by now.

sirjohnson: Yay, that Nairaland girl is in trouble o

Yes oo, she is! and she gave so much away like her school, hostel and one of her cohorts Funke!

Kai....xo na evn rumour
Kai....xo na evn rumour
Kai....xo na evn rumour

wey that girl wey confess this morning oya come out

They were so careless about this epidemic in the beginning n nw they've realised da magnitude of their mistake. It's gradually gettin out of hand, they are now sweating and struggling to contain it. More grace!! Resident evil was jst a science fiction until now. God save us all!!!

Shey be na dem (The Ministry of Health Matters ) bring up the salt solution of a tin.........

now the real medical doctors (Igbo Boys) have turn it into somethin else.....

Wel na dem sabi.

I wish i was born in sweet days like this ones

What about me who'd already purchased 65 bags of salt already? Wetin ah go do am?

ok..

And someone had earlier bought a 10kg bag of salt.. Umm the arrest should be made, cos nigeria is filled with gullible individuals..

Super1759: all these herbalists that will not let us rest with drugs that can cure everything....(all in one drug) in buses,road and market with loudspeakers. Come and show your expatriate now. Since USA is doing shakara with their Zmapp.

. U took word out of my mouth. People needs to wise up

FG should work on how to contain and put an end to the virus, I know consuming or bathing salt water has it's own effects but trust me most people didn't care coz we were waiting for the govt to act and say something at least to ease the fear and tensions about Ebola apart from the normal signs, symptoms and mode of transmissions but nothing like that, don't be surprised that more stuffs like salt and water will come up and most people will believe it coz we're all desperate to see an end to Ebola.

Govt plz work and forget about salt and water, the end to Ebola is near and we'll all celebrate WORLD EBOLA DAY.

sunnywhyt: WHY THREATEN TO ARREST PEOPLE INSTEAD OF ARRESTING THE VIRUS...

why you nor become police to arrest virus?, can't you see the amount of illiteracy going on? i'm just waiting for the next rumor that a human head can prevent one from Ebola, the next thing is police discovery different headless bodies

YoungDaNaval: What about me who'd already purchased 65 bags of salt already? Wetin ah go do am?

. Try hard to get shop for market, salt distribution ya niyen.

The federal government needs to understand that tis is Naija and that Nigerians will always be Nigerians. Rumours or beliefs of people will surely spread round. I seriouly think getting annoyed won't solve d problem, acting fast will. We need urgent action on dis case before half of d population is wiped off in d country by Ebola.

I pray tis does nt turn out like d case of chibok girls where we r getting no definite result combined wit good news.
Though d news of 'salt solution sounded awkward to me when first heard tis morning,bt we need to get d fact straight about people ,their beliefs, and Nigerians as a whole and actions we take jex to survive. Im sure nobody wants to die nw.

SAMBARRY: Smh

you just made my day! That was exactly what hapended! Lol. The early morning calls about salt and hot bath nearly sent me into panic. Naija! Make we take am easily o...nor be only us waka com for this one o. I pray they find a cure fast o before HBP kill person o

duni04: Nigeria is a very ridiculous country. The same government that has refused to act since this ebola disease was reported in Nigeria, the same government that doesn't even know the meaning of quarantine or outbreak now wants to start attacking people for taking their own health into their hands and protecting themselves. If the information ministry had sensitised people on measures to prevent ebola infection, this salt and sugar rumour would have been ignored long time ago. People are scared and worried and since there is lack of information on how to protect themselves, they're taking their protection into their own hands. And our st.upid government wants to arrest people for that. Nonsense!

don't you think the rumor will lead to more out break as people will no longer take precautions in doing things? man if you are educated, act like one

Abeg make govt no spoil my salt bizness o

one @ africanrapper gave this info:

africanrapper (A nairalander not me o ): I did a search on the poster's identity and found
out some amusing things/facts:
First of all, I don't know why this poster claims
to have started the Salt Bath rumour. I'm
tempted to believe the guys who say he is
looking for cheap attention.
I discovered from his other account that this
poster is MALE - and not FEMALE (as he wants
us to believe).
His other account also had the emblem or
insignia of his company - GEESAM and his real
names (MUYIWA OLAGOKE) on it.
I checked him out on Facebook and found about
3 people with the same names, but when I
narrowed down my search parameters, it got
me a 'MUYIWA OLAGOKE' who is an indigene of
Osogbo, but lives in Akure, studied at the
Federal University of Technology Akure and
operates a small-scale Business called GeeSam
Renewable Energy Limited.
I just heard that some SSS operatives have
arrested some girls at FUTA who go by name
FUNKE and are currently on a man-hunt for one
Adesewe, who claimed to have started the Salt
Bath rumour.
His phone number
(PhoneNumber: 08064837161; BBM: 28C98F98
; Email: geesamuyiwa@gmail.com ) and other
details are displayed on his Facebook account.
Even downloaded some of his pics (should
anything happen to those girls arrested today
by the SSS operatives).
Personal Message to the OP:
Guy, I don't understand what you are doing, but
I just heard that the SSS has arrested some girls
named Funke this afternoon at Jibowu Hostel of
FUTA. This your madness has got to stop.
#africanrapper

agitator: We need solution, not threats

Salt Solution. . . . .



But seriously, why and how would any sane educated person believe this salt shit?

D person dey nairaland abeq

OmichaelO: I CAN BELIEVE MY MATES (STUDYING BIOLOGY ALSO BELIEVED THE MALARKEY).. Our Education System has Failed....

Who wan die?

donnypool:

don't you think the rumor will lead to more out break as people will no longer take precautions in doing things? man if you are educated, act like one

seconded

Desparate pple wt snowpoke govt.,arrest am dat wan na Shekau or d Ebola virus..leprosy versus ringworms...arrest am o!

In as much as I condemned the mischieviousness of the pedellers of these rumours, I think these rumours served a purpose.
They served as as a litmus test on the level of our awareness about this Ebola issue. Indeed it scored a point. By now we will all unianimously agree that the level of awareness about this Ebola issue in the country is very high. These rumours travelled to all the nooks and crannies of this country and beyond.

Though these rumour mongers embarrased the whole country and put us all in a panicky situation, I plead with Nigerians and FG to forgive them.

OmichaelO: I CAN BELIEVE MY MATES (STUDYING BIOLOGY ALSO BELIEVED THE MALARKEY).. Our Education System has Failed....

My neighbour a Medical Lab Scientist working @ LUTH bathed her kids with warm water and salt. her parents wasted school fees definitely

Jabioro: Desparate pple wt snowpoke govt.,arrest am dat wan na Shekau or d Ebola virus..leprosy versus ringworms...arrest am o!

Heesi oh!

That nairalander that claimed to have started the rumor should be lynched smh

Super1759: all these herbalists that will not let us rest with drugs that can cure everything....(all in one drug) in buses,road and market with loudspeakers. Come and show your expatriate now. Since USA is doing shakara with their Zmapp.

Expatriate indeed...

They should be executed.

We have to execute the low intelligence Africans that are dragging the continent backwards.