President Jonathan says no President
or governor of any state should claim credit for containing the deadly Ebola
virus in Nigeria. He says the credit should be given to Nigerians who
cooperated while the epidermic lasted. President Jonathan said this yesterday
October 16th while receiving heads of a charity foundation at the state house
in Abuja
“I am quiet pleased with what is
happening because I believe that government alone cannot solve human problems
and anything done by government when you involve the private sector and civil
societies, it is always better.
There are success cases. The most
recent is our ability to manage Ebola. The key thing that made Nigeria a
success is the buying by the ordinary Nigerians.
When government said look we must be
mindful of gatherings, we must be mindful of handshakes, we should not move
corpse unnecessarily. I was afraid churches would resist because
of our practice of holy communion… over 1000 people would share the same cup
and so on. Churches stopped that practice within that period. Even the saluting
by shaping people across, all that was suspended..even religious organizations
within that period. Nigerians became mindful…even friends stopped embracing
themselves saying until we get out of Ebola. So it had the buying of the populace
of course that’s why we succeeded so fast otherwise we couldn’t have…there is
no magic government could have used to solve that problem. No President or
state government should claim any credit. The credit should go to the ordinary
Nigerian for the cooperation and the buying” he said
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