Remember Patrick
Sawyer who plagued Nigeria with the sub Saharan-prevalent Ebola Virus Disease
(EVD) on July 25? The ashes of his cremated body are still in Nigeria.
With the current
situation of things, the name Sawyer is as dreaded as names such as Anini,
Iyamu and Oyenusi, which are synonymous with evil. His name brought deaths and
sorrows to the country as many people died from complications from Ebola. Some
of those, who lost their lives to Ebola, were Dr. Stella Adadevoh, a senior
nurse in First Consultant Hospital, where Stella also worked, and several
others in different parts of the country.
His ashes, which
were however, rejected by his wife remains unpaid for.
We gathered that
the Federal Government has also sought for the release of the ashes but the denier
has refused, asking whoever the eventual claimant will be to pay the cremation
fee of N700 Thousand Naira.
The question now
is that the Federal Government had released the sum of N2Billion for the
management of EVD. Medical professionals are asking why the Nigerian Government
has refused to emulate the American Government by simply paying off the
cremator, get the ashes of Patrick Sawyer and return to the Liberian Government
or better still, the family as in the case of Eric Dunccan, the 42 year old
Liberian who transited EVD into Texas, USA. After all, the ashes of a cremated
Ebola corpse is not contagious.
Many people are
now complaining that his ashes are not the type of things a nation should keep
and that everything should be done to ‘pack the remains of the man away from
Nigeria once and for all.’
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