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The widow of late Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian-American who brought Ebola into Nigeria, has made heartfelt revelations on why her husband deliberately came into the country with the deadly disease.
Premium Times reports that the wife of the late Patrick, Decontee Sawyer, who is a Radio Host in New York has cleared the rumours about how her husband was defiant to the law that restricted any Ebola infected person from travelling outside the country.
Decontee Sawyer
Related: EBOLA: Liberia Apologises To Nigeria
Decontee made it known that it was the yearning of his late husband to receive adequate health care which he could not get in Liberia that made him opted to travel down to Africa’s most populous country, Nigeria.
Mrs Sawyer also took to her Facebook account to explain more about it. In her words, she said:“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.”
The late Liberian-American’s decision to travel down to Nigeria has caused so many uproar and panic in the country as many Nigerians have booed the late Sawyer as an inconsiderate fellow who just wanted to deliberately spread the deadly disease. Even the Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan, few days ago lambasted the late Sawyer calling him a mad manfor the irrational decision he took by travelling to Nigeria. It would be recalled that Nigeria had a clean slate of the record of the disease not until the late Patrick Sawyer walk right into the country.
Mrs. Sawyer however combated words of many people saying her husband deliberately brought the disease to the country by saying:“It has been reported that Patrick avoided physical contact with everyone he came across during his trip from Liberia to Nigeria. The CCTV in the airport revealed it. When he got to Nigeria, he turned himself in letting them know that he had just flown in from Liberia. “Patrick went to Nigeria for help so that he can get properly diagnosed, and not misdiagnosed in Liberia. And if it came back that he did have Ebola, he trusted the Nigerian healthcare system a lot more than he trusted the Liberian’s. His action, as off as it was, was a desperate plea for help. Patrick didn’t want to die, and he thought his life would be saved in Nigeria.”
Mrs. Sawyer further took a swipe at the Liberian President, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, who said Mr Sawyer was indiscipline and disrespectful for failing to heed medical advice not to travel. Mrs Sawyer said if President Johnson-Sirleaf had fixed the healthcare system in Liberia, her husband would not have left in search of treatment elsewhere.
“I write today, not simply because of Patrick, but because of the broken healthcare system in the Liberia, and the government’s inability under President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (and other past Presidents) to fix it. Good doctors, nurses, and other healthcare providers aren’t given the support they need to save lives.
“President Sirleaf went on CNN News throwing stones at Patrick, a man who can no longer defend himself, a man who worked tirelessly for Liberia. She should be ashamed of herself. I use to admire this woman, and was excited and proud of her accomplishment as the first woman President in the entire continent of Africa. She will always own that. We will always own that. It can’t be taken away from her. It’s something to be proud of. But this woman has failed her country,”She wrote.

The widow of late Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian-American who brought Ebola into Nigeria, has made heartfelt revelations on why her husband deliberately came into the country with the deadly disease.
Premium Times reports that the wife of the late Patrick, Decontee Sawyer, who is a Radio Host in New York has cleared the rumours about how her husband was defiant to the law that restricted any Ebola infected person from travelling outside the country.
Decontee Sawyer
Related: EBOLA: Liberia Apologises To Nigeria
Decontee made it known that it was the yearning of his late husband to receive adequate health care which he could not get in Liberia that made him opted to travel down to Africa’s most populous country, Nigeria.
Mrs Sawyer also took to her Facebook account to explain more about it. In her words, she said:“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.”
The late Liberian-American’s decision to travel down to Nigeria has caused so many uproar and panic in the country as many Nigerians have booed the late Sawyer as an inconsiderate fellow who just wanted to deliberately spread the deadly disease. Even the Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan, few days ago lambasted the late Sawyer calling him a mad manfor the irrational decision he took by travelling to Nigeria. It would be recalled that Nigeria had a clean slate of the record of the disease not until the late Patrick Sawyer walk right into the country.
Mrs. Sawyer however combated words of many people saying her husband deliberately brought the disease to the country by saying:“It has been reported that Patrick avoided physical contact with everyone he came across during his trip from Liberia to Nigeria. The CCTV in the airport revealed it. When he got to Nigeria, he turned himself in letting them know that he had just flown in from Liberia. “Patrick went to Nigeria for help so that he can get properly diagnosed, and not misdiagnosed in Liberia. And if it came back that he did have Ebola, he trusted the Nigerian healthcare system a lot more than he trusted the Liberian’s. His action, as off as it was, was a desperate plea for help. Patrick didn’t want to die, and he thought his life would be saved in Nigeria.”
Mrs. Sawyer further took a swipe at the Liberian President, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, who said Mr Sawyer was indiscipline and disrespectful for failing to heed medical advice not to travel. Mrs Sawyer said if President Johnson-Sirleaf had fixed the healthcare system in Liberia, her husband would not have left in search of treatment elsewhere.
“I write today, not simply because of Patrick, but because of the broken healthcare system in the Liberia, and the government’s inability under President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (and other past Presidents) to fix it. Good doctors, nurses, and other healthcare providers aren’t given the support they need to save lives.
“President Sirleaf went on CNN News throwing stones at Patrick, a man who can no longer defend himself, a man who worked tirelessly for Liberia. She should be ashamed of herself. I use to admire this woman, and was excited and proud of her accomplishment as the first woman President in the entire continent of Africa. She will always own that. We will always own that. It can’t be taken away from her. It’s something to be proud of. But this woman has failed her country,”She wrote.

mcino: Shaking my head for some ignorant posts here. There is no Ebola in Enugu. The woman is just on observation facility for having primary contact with the evil sawyer. It is not said anywhere that she has tested positive to it. Besides, it is only when the person has tested positive and is already down with it that he can infect others. Even if TNG woman later tests positive, she might likely not have given it to anybody.

Must she travel at all, when she duly knows the state and rate of how this EBOLA can spread?

datguru: this thing made fp yesterday na. Why today again

na ENDTIME cause am






As same topic go make NL FP twice in less than 24 hrs?
When no be arsenal that visited Wemble stadium for double trophies within 85 days

akee01: open ur eyes wella

ok

jmaine: Olodo, who ate the Aregbe odourless fufu ? Ekiti people am so sure . . . .

www.nairaland.com/attachments/1601928_stomach_infrastructure_jpeg4eca6807aeebc71427c71698342d4cfe

handiwork of PDP photoshopping

mascot87: People that voted for Omisore also celebrated, jubilated & were ecstatic @ Aregbesolas victory

Even OMISORE secretly voted for Rauf Aregbesola, as he already knew Osun people are not like their EKITI counterparts who are well known to be hungry and alatenujes.

PvtParts: Ekiti people are not jobless

Ekiti people are smarter they do not see election winning as the benchmark but the actual day to day dividends. They know fayose can deliver as he did I his last term but they did not appreciate his conduct. Fayose has learnt his lessons and his people were wiling to give him a second try.

As for osun enjoy your next 4 years of retro progressive

This was how PDP rigged EKITI state Election
Ekiti people voted for APC and left the polling unit after hearing that Garri, rice and kerosene is being shared in another location. So rigging was superbly carried out by INEC in conjunction with PDP.

Osun people, make una celebrate jawe,
Don't mind the ALATENUJES of EKITI people.

cowleg: Goodluck is the best president ever in Nigeria. He has reformed our electoral system that election rigging is near impossible. Comgrates Apc.. Lets support goodluck. This feat can never happen during obj era.

last bomb: When Apc wins election its called beauty of democracy but when pdp wins they shout rigging and head to courts.
President goodluck jonathan till 2019. Enough fresh air... Please I am apolitical.

This wan don smoke sha!

Olaone1: Trust me, APC would have lost had PDP fielded a sell-able personality.

Like I said, this should be a soul-searching moment and not a victory parade. It is all about being elitist as a party. You can't continue to tell people to endure when you continue to live like mafia bosses. You rightly bulldoze houses to make the streets look like London while you have annoyingly refused to live like leaders in London. Your convoys continue to get longer with at least 15 cars and 10 outriders. Yet, you tell people to endure...that these are trying times. What nonsense! You continue to display this annoying elitist mindset to the detriment of your teeming masses/followers. Perception is everything in politics. And, the 'voting class' have a less-than-appreciative perception of the party right now.
And, adopting knee-jerk, band-aid reactions will NOT work either. For example, Ajimobi just distributed 500 bags of rice/local government in Oyo State. That right there is political band-aidism. Such primitive fire-brigade approach hardly achieves lasting and enduring results. That's acute short-sightedness. Instead, things should be viewed holistically and organically.


Well, they can continue to pretend all is well. That appears to be their stock-in trade.

Are you saying in essence that people of OYO state are following the footstep of "ALATENUJEs" in EKITI state?
Na wa for south west this days o!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

porka: Why are you not tired of the same people leading Lagos since 1999?

I want a change. PDP in LAGOS and APC at the Federal LEVEL.
Let's give the Angel we don't know a chance and see what his outcome for 4yrs will be.
If the Angel fails, then the world should end at once.

mkoabiola: Despite sharing rice,d ppu voted for deir conscience.
D ppu of Osun are wiser now

More wiser than those Alatenuje of Ekiti state.

great664: u still don't understand, Pls answer this, if GEJ decamp to APC, will u vote him? If Aregbosola na PDP would have voted him out? Honestly answer

I understand ur individual assessment, but we all know how political parties affects the good nature of their political office holders. GEJ came in as a messiah, but the party turned him to more or less a dictator and changed his political goodwill to what it is today.

7lives: I am sorry for people like you, what obasanjo could not achieve in Lagos, what makes you think he can achieve it in Osun state in the current dispensation.
Osun and Oyo are people of the same mindset, ajise bi Oyo laari, Oyo ki ise bi baba enikan. You also forgot that this people voted Ribadu instead of JEG, see they don't believe in luck, they believe in hard work, and this is why you see women young and old slugging it out in farming and commerce along side men in Osun.
They are also violent people, ask the Fulani Jihadists, their dipping the Quran in the Atlantic quest ends at Oshogbo, they are a no nonsense people this was why they voted and waited for the votes to be counted, everybody already knows the result so how in the world would you expect an Obasanjo to announce a different result without creating a mess, what makes you think that JEG would want to add a crisis in Osun to the ones he is currently managing.

Abi o!

porka: Be a good loser Ore, it's a game.

There's always another day.

At least this is not a judicial pronouncements but electorates decision.

you have time to reply that clueless individual

great664: so APC will deliver abey, do †ђξ member of APC not holding political offices before APC creation, we don't care about party name, can we stop giving blame to parties? we need working individuals not party, I support whoever I want not party, so leave party out of †ђξ light and embrace CHANGE, u will ask what Change? Change to vote †ђξ best man irrespective of party, VOTE Persons not Party again

We all need a change in this country of ours, but are you not tired of one political party since the end of military rule? Is this great nation a one party system or you don't want to try the products of other parties? As for me o! Am sick and tired of PDP and I know many Nigerians are as well.
Sometimes, its better you try the Angel you don't know than stay dying with the devil that has refuse to better your life.

otalenu: Oponu ni eh

shey I lie ni?

DaBullIT: Dan iska , are you stalker ?if not you are a learner I blame Gej because he sent 10,000 dogs and 30,000 security operatives to a peaceful Osun state

I live in Ilesha , if you want my home address I will send it , PDP is the party who brought fake soldiers to my town and killed 300 ijesha youths with general purpose machine gun , they never released the bodies

Jonathan attempted to turn Yoruba in Ekiti , Lagos ,Osun and southwestern states against each other by coming to osun and congratulating bad water in advance , bad water is a convict who has no plans for osun people , and he wants to do two things steal / immunity ,Jet knew that and he still approved bad water as governor

Aregbe is the only governor who resisted Jona's influence over the polls , meaning APC will take back all their states


Bottom line is PDP , Good luck is the author of conspiracy and propaganda , we are poor in osun but we are not smellos , federal police helicopter distributing cash and rice .yet Aregbes won by huge margin , so yes I reserve the right to lambast and blame Jobs , he has failed and will fail in 2015


Ebola Backluck Joe Satan must be voted out come 2015

Oyinlola said : Olojooro ni egbe ti mo wa tele ( PDP my former party is filled with worms and resist )

Tinubu said : Ijoba o ye Jonathan , ko moo she ( jona doesn't understand how to govern , he's incompetent )

Oro were lon yato. ( only a mad man's reasoning and utterances differs )

So if correct people blame Jonathan for failure , I solemnly do too. So , kiss my buttttttttttt

I second you my brother, don't mind all those Atenuje of Ekiti state.

iamodenigbo1: so you admit ekiti was free and fair?

I would say they voted and left the polling unit after hearing that Garri, rice and kerosene is being shared in another location. So rigging was superbly carried out.

abbasteck: Congrats

the essence of broom is to sweep rubbish out of an environment, so sha it be come 2015. If them like share garri, rice, kerosene or even self chop corn for tarred road, untop motor abi walker chop the corn, na you sabi.

iamodenigbo1: 2003 comes to mind,how much did people defend against Obj federal might?,or yaradua who confessed that the election that brought him in was mared with irregularities,Just thank Gej

leave story jawe, OBJ no dey for power when ACN win Lagos state abi when APGA win ANAMBRA state or ANPP for north? All you need know now is that people are more enlightened than b4 and they always stay back to see their vote counts b4 going home, no matter the hunger of their stomach.








But in Ekiti state o! Its their stomach first regardless of the future

scantee: ......Osun Decides ....APC see u in Court We gatta annul the INEC result. (PDP till Christ come GEJ till 205674)

u try, go rest small b4 BP go rise

great664: Y̅ou are still Clueless!!! Nigeirans are voting for the Best Candidate not Parties for God sake, that's †ђξ step †ђξ people are taking now. stop party mentality and vote †ђξ best man irrespective of †ђξ party he is, so stop Accusing PDP or APC or praising any of them. Let's be wise and embrace Change. The Best Man Wins Irrespective of Party and the runner up should congratulate †ђξ winner instead of doing all it can to destroy †ђξ winner and make d state "ungorvernorable" for him, I guess u understand my stand now... God Bless Nigeria!!!

Since 1999, what are the notable achievements of PDP at the FG level, please I will like to know? Thanks

akee01: wat abt thishypocrites

another handiwork of PDP. Osun no be Ekiti people that voted cause of Atenuje.

sandijey: Keep expressing your $tupidity.

foolish asshole

sandijey: Just imagine how stupid u sound....

am sure u are one of the people am referring to. Hungry man

great664: stop that and give credit to whom it is due, why can't we Nigeria be appreciative for once? Osun ni Soap Ke ,

during OBJ govt the attorney General of the federation and Minister of Justice was killed and justice wasn't done. Someone was in custody and won election wetin u talk. Now someone is there fighting †ђξ God father's to make a better Nigeria, and u still want to see excuse to condemn him, NIGERIANS appreciate good development and Change,

So we should appreciate GEJ for what?
Is it how he freed Al-mustapher, Bode George and granting state pardon to his criminal boss, Alameshia? Or on issues of fuel subsidy, Sanusi lamido sanusi and the billion dollar cash that was not paid to central bank? Or the impeachment of opposition party office holders?
This GEJ is so clueless that over 200 girls are still missing and nothing serious about it has been done. As far as am concern, PdP is a failed government and all its supporters are enemies to the future of this country NIGERIA.

Each time I hear or see an Ekiti man, there is always this hunger stigma in them. Stupid people from the lineage of Esau, that's why the first letter of their name starts with 'E'

dickoflife: bastard son of a LovePeddler, ur mama don chop dis morning?

comot there jawe, all these hungry people of Ekiti state.

hansad: If OBJ is president, Omisore would have been declared winner. Buhari and Tinubu can at best head to the courts. Hope this APC victory shall make Tinubu and Lai Mohammed appreciate President Jonathan's unrivalled democratic credentials, instead of daily telling ridiculous lies against the president. A few days to this election, Tinubu lied that Jonathan kidnapped the Chibok girls. As for Lai Mohammed, well, his official duty in his party includes manufacturing and spreading of false information to gullible Nigerians. So, Lai has lied himself to be regaded as a joker in the park. Congrats Aregbe.

This one they talk story here, u never hear say the matter pass GEJ hand? Osun people no be Atenuje like Ekiti people na!!!!!