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| PRESIDENT GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN OF NIGERIA |
He said only the People of Nigeria should take the credit because they all contributed both directly and indirectly to see that ebola was thrown out of Nigera.
President Jonathan said:
“we had assistance from international donors, our development partners participated in terms of giving protective gear and various suggestions. The federal government did a lot of things in terms of logistics, moving people from one part of the country to the other, quarantining people within their residences and getting doctors or medical experts to follow up. We did not arrest anybody, moving people from Port Harcourt to Lagos for treatment and so on. A number of things were done.
“But the key thing that made the government to succeed is the buy-in by the ordinary Nigerians. When government said we must be mindful of gatherings, of handshakes, we should not move corpse unnecessarily, even churches that I was afraid will resist because of practice of Holy Communion, having 1,000 people sharing the same cup and so on, churches stopped that practice within that period.
“Even the saluting by shaking people across all those were suspended by religious organisations within that period. Nigerians became mindful; friends stopped embracing themselves saying until we get out of Ebola. So it had the buy-in of the populace of course that is why we succeeded so fast otherwise we couldn't have. There is no magic government would have used to solve that problem, no President or state governor will claim any credit. The credit should go to the ordinary Nigerians for the cooperation and buy-in”.
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