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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