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  • Open letter to Governor Ajimobi

    SIR: I will like to express my sympathy for the loss of properties caused by the recent fire disaster at Aleshinloye Market, Ibadan. A visit to the site confirmed a complete destruction that nothing could be retrieved. The loss was extensive. My concern is the promise by the Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi to compensate shop-owners for their losses. I hope this is not a political competition for space against an earlier promise by a prospective governorship candidate. Governance should be taken away from this pettiness.

    Fortunately, the fire disaster occurred at the frontal section of the market facing the newly constructed dual carriage way. The site should be completely cleared and rebuilt by the precast modular building construction system. This system is faster and could readily be available within 60 to 90 days since the precast elements of the building are done away from the site. For maximal utilization of the site, it should be of two or three floors with the assurance that affected traders and shop-owners would be given first choice of resettlement at the constructed shops. With proper management, the entire market can be re-built in phases with adequate access roads and other infrastructural facilities.

    The governor’s sympathy site visits; immediate and after are in order but something durable and of lasting legacy should replace the burnt section of the market. The modernization of the Ibadan Metropolis by the governor is not only commendable but a memorable legacy of urban-renewal which now qualifies Ibadan for a State. Governance takes boldness and this is a suggestion from one of those who want you to succeed.

    • Sir Biyi Adesanya

    Ring Road, Ibadan.

     

  • Kaduna varsity erred on Danfulani

    SIR: I read with great concern a news article that Dr. John Danfulani, a lecturer in Political Science at the Kaduna State University (KASU) was served with a warning letter by the council of the university for allegedly denigrating the visitor of the university who doubles as the governor of the state, Alhaji Mukhtar Ramalan Yero, in the social media.

    I feel an urgent intervention is required before the issue takes the usual political turn between the two major political divides in the state. This warning must not be allowed to stand for many reasons. In the first place, was Yero criticized in his capacity as a governor or the visitor to the university? If it was in his capacity as governor, then there is no case and KASU should not even dabble into it. The gentleman is a patriotic and concerned citizen of the state who has all the rights to say all that are needed to be said to ensure the state is run properly.

    On the other hand, if the criticism was directed to his office as the visitor to the university as alleged, the gentleman still has right to criticise the office as a dedicated staff of the university, because no office is above criticism. Even if the criticism is directed at his person, KASU Council still has no business in it, because it should be the responsibility of Alhaji Yero to take-up the matter himself. In any case, why are we even afraid of criticism?

    I understand that speaking the truth to the powers-that-be sometimes requires wisdom, but everyone is different and we all have different ways of expressing ourselves. What is important is the wisdom of the reader to separate the grains from the sand; to separate the message from the messenger, and to challenge the idea put forward by the writer intellectually wherever opinions differ. But most importantly is the wisdom of whosoever is concerned to act based on the positive criticisms.

    Danfulani is a political scientist by profession with a PhD to show for it. It is normal for a political scientist to comment on political issues around him – a necessary part of community service. In his quest to liberate his Southern Kaduna people from political slavery, many power brokers have in the past come under the hammer of his mighty pen. He has never shied away from condemning any perceived injustice including the ones done on adherents of other religions, like the recent killings in Zaria. In all these, we never heard the voice of KASU council remonstrating with him or any other person. Therefore, it is ironic how they suddenly found their lost pen to prevent him from commenting on their almighty visitor. In the words of Neil Gaiman: “if you don’t stand up for the stuff you don’t like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you’ve already lost.”

    My advice to the university council is for them to concentrate on the development of more Danfulanis by sponsoring many of their staff to obtain higher degrees and clear the bottom-heavy staffing system currently in place. Dabbling into politics is definitely not the way to progress.

     

    • Shafi’i Hamidu

    Universiti Teknologi Malaysia.

     

  • Between Jonathan and Northern elders

    SIR: I have been at odds trying to rationalize, or otherwise put a value to the recent ultimatum given President Goodluck Jonathan by a group known as Northern Elders Forum (NEF). The group insists the President must produce the abducted Chibok girls and bring an end to the Boko Haram insurgency by the end of October, or be deemed unfit to seek re-election in 2015.

    No doubt, the Chibok girls’ abduction stirs patriotic Nigerians to sympathy, and it is one issue in which Jonathan has spoken and acted with so much passion. While I agree that the lingering terrorist attacks and other related security challenges in the country pose a major threat to the 2015 elections and the survival of Nigeria as a nation, I disagree that the solution resides with one man, however high the office he holds.

    When the forum lamented that the insurgents have taken over some parts of the North-East, who really do they blame?  They must face the truth: the Frankenstein’s monster they created or helped nurture has unfortunately turned against them and cannot be potent as a tool of blackmail against President Jonathan? To send Nigeria’s President on what is ordinarily a fool’s errand is therefore preposterous.

    Yes, it does appear that some ‘Elders’ are complicit, acting as quislings to the national cause.  The last time the NEF issued a statement on the nation’s security situation, it was to disparage the Nigerian military and their campaign to halt the advance of the dreaded terrorist gang, Boko Haram, into the North-east. In defending the terrorists, the stormy petrel of the NEF, Professor Ango Abdullahi, had accused the military of genocide and threatened to drag the then Chief of Army Staff, General Azubuike Ihejirika, to the International Criminal Court.  Ironically, less than a year later, the same NEF has made restoration of peace to the North-east its condition for the nation’s Commander-In-Chief to exercise his constitutional right to stand for re-election.  The connection between one man’s right and what is ordinarily a common national problem, cannot be more curious and revealing.

    The claim that NEF was speaking for the entire North, cannot be more laughable; so is the waspish basis on which they are threatening to decide for all of us come October.  Of course, the group which has over the years been manipulated by a certain clique cannot be speaking for the whole North, especially those other areas of the old region that have borne the brunt of their selfish activities.  It is obvious from the 2011 elections that the vast majority of northerners do not share their negative views of Goodluck Jonathan. The scenario being masterminded to weaken the president and portray him as incompetent and therefore unfit for re-election is therefore untenable.

    Like the presidential spokesman, Reuben Abati said in response to the stance of the elders, it is delusional for anybody or group of persons to pretend they are in a position to give the President of Nigeria an ultimatum.  It is even more delusional to assume they can make choices for the larger majority of northerners.  The NEF should rather direct their frustration at the terrorists killing and maiming their kith and kin, and in supporting the President’s efforts at curtailing their nefarious activities.  To seek to exploit the unfortunate incidence for political gains is most irrational.

    • Femi Ayelabowo,

     Ibadan

     

  • Nigeria, hope of Black race

    SIR: When I reflect on the ingenuity of the Igbos in the field of commerce, the entrepreneurial skills of the Yorubas, the agrarian prowess of the Hausas/Fulanis and the Niger Delta people, I have no reason to doubt the leadership position of Nigeria in the comity of nations. As the only country in the world with the largest concentration of black people on earth, I believe God has a purpose of keeping us together as a people.

    As a people, we have all come from various rich cultural backgrounds with tales of our forebears that toiled through thick and thin to settle at the present locations we all find ourselves. We can as a matter of importance tap from this cultural heritage to develop something positive to teach the world. Already by act of providence, our numerical strength has brought us to the limelight. All we need to do is to put our acts together, sharpen our political philosophy by enthroning quality leadership and insisting on doing the right and positive things that will enhance our leadership position in Africa.

    As the rest of black Africa are looking up to us to provide the needed leadership, what indeed are they learning from us? Are we teaching them that in our democracy, an incumbent can never lose an election even when smaller countries like Ghana, Malawi and Ivory Coast have already outgrown that? Are we telling them that in our democracy, sovereignty no longer resides with the people but rather with the military?

    Are we teaching them that election rigging is the sure way of bring back an ineffective leader to power instead of allowing the people’s power to suffice? Are they learning from us that democracy is no longer the right of every eligible citizen to vote and be voted for but rather is muttered through the barrel of guns? Or are we teaching them that politics is no more a game where concerned and visionary citizens go into to fight for an opportunity to provide required leadership in the interest of majority of the people but rather a game which is now a bulwark for mediocres, political neophytes and men of low reasoning or easy virtue who go into it for self-aggrandizement or to persecute unsuspecting political foes?

    These questions are asked in view of the events playing out in the country as the countdown to 2015 elections begins. The impeachment saga targeted at members of the opposition, the militarization of our electioneering process (Osun and Ekiti states as a case study), the intimidation of political opponents through the use of public institutions etc are factors indicative of how next year’s elections will look like. But whatever may be the case it will be pertinent to state here that if we fail to get it right in 2015, and if we fail to keep this big house together to enable us keep the hope of black man alive, I think no one should be blamed if he gives up on the project of nation-building and no African nation should even be blamed if she removes her hope on Nigeria and pitches it elsewhere.

    But I know that Nigeria shall not, will not and cannot dash the hope of the black man because personal ambition of anybody can never override the ambitions of over 170 million Nigerians and indeed several millions of the black Africans out there. This is the reason why we must get it right in 2015 to still keep Nigeria as the hope of the black race.

    • Wenenda W. Weli

    Elibrada Emohua,  Rivers State.

  • Doctors’ sack, setback for Ebola war

    SIR: A twist has been added in the ongoing fight against the ravaging Ebola outbreak in the country with the directive by the Presidency that residency training for medical doctors in Nigeria be suspended indefinitely in all the government hospitals. The directive is nothing but a euphemism for mass dismissal of over 16, 000 doctors.  The action is not only flawed, it is ill-timed and thoughtless, especially in the light of the ongoing crisis in the nation’s health sector.

    The latest action by the Federal Government at crippling the industrial action will lead the country to nowhere. If anything, it will bring more untold hardships on Nigerians and may further weaken the war against the deadly Ebola outbreak in the country.

    Government cannot blow hot and cold at the same time. It cannot be pleading with the NMA to drop its strike action for the sake of the ravaging Ebola disease and in another breadth dismissing its members. It is totally unacceptable to Nigerians that at the period where more medical personnel are required to put an end to the Ebola menace and other diseases in the country, the government is decimating the number. It is quite disturbing that government is yet to find a lasting solution to these incessant strikes by doctors and other health workers. The federal government’s action is tantamount to cutting off the head of a patient in lieu of treating the headache.

    Certainly, this is not the part of the much taunted state of emergency declared recently by the federal government on the public health sector as one of the ways of combating the Ebola Virus Disease in the land. It is equally inconceivable that the same government who recently introduced the so-called life insurance for health workers in the country would now embark on this dead mission. It is left to be seen how this action will help to galvanise the populace in a fight against the deadly virus.

    While one is not holding brief for the striking doctors especially in the light of the outbreak, it is, however, imperative to state that they have not be fairly treated. It is completely scandalous that an average Nigerian medical doctor in the public hospital earns N5,000 as hazard allowance. The implication is that if a medical doctor becomes infected with while treating victims, he/she  is only entitled to N5,000 as allowance for the hazard! Little wonder, there is a brain drain in our health sector. Most doctors prefer to leave the country’s shore in search for greener pastures. This leaves the nation’s health sector perpetually comatose. This doldrums have been allowed to fester because government officials and their cronies can always afford foreign medical treatment at the detriment of the poor masses.

    All the fire brigade approaches being now adopted to combat the Ebola outbreak ordinarily ought to be in place in the first place, if governments were sincere about addressing the rot in the health sector. The so-called life insurance scheme being proposed for health workers is a help too late and too little. President Barrack Obama rightly captured this malady in his speech at the recently held America-Africa leaders summit when he chided African leaders for not doing enough in improving public health infrastructures . The underline lesson is that government does not have to wait for a major outbreak such as this before it puts in place necessary infrastructures and facilities.

    There can never be alternative to negotiation in labour dispute. Government should explore this option to its fullest rather than engaging in this knee-jerk approach. For public interest and sake of helpless patients, the striking medics should soft pedal and find a way of ending the logjam.

     

    • Barrister Okoro Gabriel,

     

     

  • Ebola permeates our system

    SIR: As dangerous as HIV/AIDS is, the disease has suddenly become less precarious with the presence of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in our midst. The virus has probably enabled HIV/AIDS carriers to have cause to thank their stars; one is at least better than the other. With Ebola’s presence in a body, the soul is no longer certain of going further distance.

    From Lagos to Damaturu, Calabar to Oturpo, Yola to Sagamu, Ilorin to Owerri, Nigerians are gripped in the fear of the deadly disease. For once, Nigerians have almost forgotten the Boko Haram. Members of the dangerous sect are equally as afraid of the disease as several other Nigerians.

    But long before the arrival of the invisible EVD, there has been the presence of the virus in our systems and all aspects of our lives. There is for instance a heavy presence of EVD in our power sector that has over the years since independence made the sector permanently comatose. To fix the problem in our power sector will be tantamount to finding solution to EVD. For more than 53 years now, we’ve been battling with the fluctuating fortunes of the power sector.

    Our education sector is not left out. The situation in that sector is so bad that many Nigerian students are now finding solace in the Universities of such neighbouring countries as Ghana, Benin Republic, and South Africa to mention but few.

    The virus has equally eaten deep into our oil sector that common Nigerians have not been benefitting from the resources abundantly bestowed on the nation by nature. It is so bad that we have to sell it out cheaply to foreign countries in its raw form and buy it back to the country in a very high price. The EVD has totally eaten all our four refineries and prevented us from rehabilitating them. The official price of a litre of petrol is N97.00 in a country where many live below two American dollars per day. As if this is not enough, the erratic power supply in the country forces many Nigerians to procure at least one “I better pass my neighbor” generating set. After paying the NEPA/PHCN for their ineptitude; we still go ahead to buy fuel to the power generating set.

    Heavy presence of the virus is equally felt on our major roads where most of them have turned death-trap over the years. It is so saddening that 53 years after independence, we’ve not been able to link our six geo-political zones with good roads. Ilorin-Ibadan highway has been under construction for more than a decade.

    The greatest Ebola virus killing the Nigerian system are the politicians, who deceive the unsuspecting electorates to get what they want only to disappear after each election and reappear four years later when another election is due. Having impoverished the masses, the Nigerian politicians have recently developed a new political concept now known as “stomach infrastructure”.

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    Ishowo Lateef,

    Ilorin, Kwara State

  • Can international politics be moral: crises in Gaza, Ukraine

    The news is puzzling to so many of us. Each and every day , we are bombarded by atrocities committed by state actors as well as non-state actors such as non-governmental organizations in the international system. For the past two months, rapidly unfolding events in Gaza and Ukraine have grabbed the media headlines. From the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 with 298 casualties by Ukrainian separatists allegedly with the Buk missile obtained from Russia to the Israeli Operation Protective Edge in Gaza that has killed thousands of Palestinians since late last month, the carnage could be incomprehensible to the mind not conversant with international relations and politics.

    States are the primary actors on the world scene. Their existence dates back to the Treaty of Westphalia of 1648 that confers sovereignty on it . Article 1 of the Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States of 1933 says that a typical state should have a population, territory, government and capacity to enter into relations with other states. The system in which states operate in is chaotic, that is, not disorganized but simply lacking a body above states that can effectively regulate their behaviour. To achieve their objectives, states therefore jostle for power. The state’s means of attaining influence in the system is amoral, that is neither good nor bad. It usually does whatever it needs to do to protect its strategic goals .Realists support this stance blaming state behaviour on the chaotic self-help system while idealists contend that states should consider moral means of attaining their goals.

    International law gained prominence during the 1950s as a constraint to the tendency of state actors to resort to violent means to achieve their objectives. Article 2(4) and (7) of the United Nations Charter explicitly outlaws the use of force in the relations between states and the meddling of one state into another’s affairs. International law also frowns at the annexation or break-up of territories and prescribes rules and regulations that should govern warfare for instance. Unfortunately, the reality is that the law is subject to power on the international stage. Thus, Israel’s Operation Protective Edge has caused the deaths of thousands of civilians in Gaza even as Hamas has consistently fired rockets into thickly populated Israeli areas and used its network of underground tunnels to attack civilians despising international law. Russia desires Ukraine to remain its ally in Eastern Europe thereby serving as a buffer to the rapidly expanding European Union from Western Europe. It therefore annexed Crimea from Ukraine in March 2014, instigated the current efforts by separatists in Donetsk and Luhansk to break away from Ukraine and is even alleged to have plans afoot to invade Ukraine in the nearest future.

    Despite the robust growth of international law with doctrines like the Responsibility To Protect which tries to prevent state oppression of its own citizens, international politics has always been amoral and hugely influenced by calculations of strategic interests rather than morality to the detriment of huge numbers of casualties evidenced in the current crises in Gaza and Ukraine.

    Allwell Akhigbe

    amb.welo2013@gmail.com

  • Cry my beloved Enugu State

    The article Theatre of absurd in Enugu, published in your soar-away Sunday Nation, made my day as one took time after last church service to read between the lines. Indeed, very strange happenings have become the order of the day in our beloved Enugu State. The reasons of course are not far-fetched.

    The craze for political offices in the 2015 general elections seems to have beclouded sound reasoning as those at the helm of affairs of Enugu State are unfortunately playing God.

    That article was bold and audacious to raise a genuine fear that the once adored Governor of the State, Sullivan Chime, had become dictatorial and being goaded by sycophants who are perhaps pushing an unwilling horse to the stream.

    It really makes a caricature of the democratic system we are practising for a governor to want to quarrel, discard and pull down a ladder he had used in ascending to power, simply because of inordinate ambition.

    The irony of the Enugu politics is that because of spoils of office, no one had been brave enough to call a spade by its name, for hardly had they for fear of victimisation praised the ‘Lord of the Manor’ to high heavens in his presence than they disparage him outside under the cover of darkness.

    Piteous spectacle! No one is bold to tell him to forget this urge to replace a serving Senator whose activities and performance are in the ‘A’ bracket. As governor, Chime’s name cannot be forgotten in a hurry for the good and the bad and the ugly. He, however, misfires, when all attempts are being made by his machinery to deny and frustrate Senator Ike Ekweremadu from coming back or getting the ticket of the party to run in the forthcoming polls, even with Ekweremadu’s excellent record in the Senate as Deputy Senate President.

    In my quiet moments, I have wondered why party faithful in Enugu would be so docile and frightened by the mere shadow of the governor and his Chief of Staff, whom he is hell bent on pushing through the electoral web as the next Senatorial candidate of the party for Enugu East.

    It makes a mockery of participatory democracy- he goes to the Senate for Enugu West and the Chief of Staff catapulted to the Senate, with little or no political experience.

    One is nostalgic of the old when party supremacy reigned undisputed. The last local government elections, it became so shameful that the state party Chairman who had a candidate could not as much as influence the adoption of the candidate and of course ‘Lord Manor’, single-handedly brought a political novice from London to become the Nsukka Local Government Chairman.

    The concluding part of the article about ex-this and ex-that, is a food for thought, because very soon Chime would join the bandwagon of former governors who now are numerous in the lonely club so insignificant because of their ill doings  and have been consigned to history. Leave a good legacy of mutual understanding, amity and comradeship that would be my advice to the pilots of Enugu State.

    Munachim Agbo

    Agbani, Enugu.

  • Still on Abia’s charter of equity

    SIR: As 2015 general election approaches, it is easy to get worried or even be disturbed by what is happening in Abia State. I cannot think of any state in Nigeria that is richly blessed but poorly governed as Abia State. This is a state where nobody seems to know the direction of governance and politics.

    We read recently that the outgoing governor has constituted a committee to choose his successor. Where has this kind of thing happened before in a democracy? Is the governor not telling Abians that they are irrelevant and have no say in who governs them? That the primary of his party to vote for a candidate will be of no significance? If this is not impunity, rascality and arrogance, I wonder what it is?

    In-spite of their belated denials Abians, especially the political class, must be watchful as not to allow him take the same path of infamy and perfidy that produced him as governor in 2007. For close to eight years Abia has not had elected council chairmen and it is unlikely any will be in place before next year general election.

    Chief T.A. Orji has made declarations in so many forums that his successor will come from the Ukwa/Ngwa axis based on what he called Abia Equity. I have never seen or read the so-called Abia Equity but will gladly support a credible Ukwa/Ngwa man or woman who emerges not because of my maternal relationship with the zone, but because there seems to be a general opinion of Abians that they should be given a chance. This is more so since the two occupants of the office from old Bende have performed below expectation, it is time to look elsewhere. The only thing to worry about is, given Governor  Orji’s penchant for political jiggery-pokery and policy somersaults, can he be trusted to keep his word?

    Taking for granted that he may, the promise to accede power may be cut short by Ukwa/Ngwa people themselves because of dangerous political current playing out among them now. It is being propagated that Isiala Ngwa North Local Government that falls in Abia Central Senatorial Zone be excluded from aspiring to the post of governor on the grounds that the incumbent governor hails from the same senatorial zone with them. I am told that in Abia Equity, the state is divided into two, Aba comprising Ngwa and Ukwa people and Old Bende comprising Umuahia and Bende division, and not on the basis of senatorial zones. Whoever mooted this idea of excluding Ngwa people of Isiala Ngwa North LGA may just be the mole needed to scuttle the promise.

    It is also worrisome that as at the last count, over 30 aspirants of Ngwa extraction have emerged; all under PDP. They cannot afford to go into the political battle divided because a divided house is a defeated house. They must close ranks and present a credible candidate that will be acceptable across the length and breadth of the state. In making the selection, they must avoid the temptation of thinking that the most visible aspirant among them is the most preferred.

    The people of Ukwa/Ngwa ought not to be begging for power in Abia considering their nine local government councils against six of old Bende (that is if you exclude Umuneochi and Isiukwuato LGAs). Even if you add these two based on their proximity to old Bende, Ukwa/Ngwa is still greater. Their begging for power has made nonsense of the definition of politics by some, as a game of numbers.

     

    •Ijoma Moses

    Sharada, Industrial Estate Phase I, Kano.

     

     

  • Curtailing Ebola fire

    SIR: Since February, according to World Health Organization(WHO), death toll from the recent Ebola epidemic has soared over 1, 000, making it the most deadly outbreak of Ebola in history since the discovery of the disease in 1976, with simultaneous cases in Sudan and the Congo.

    Ebola is deemed by WHO as one of the ‘world’s most virulent diseases’. It is horriying, sporadic, unpredictable and strikes like lightning and then disappears.

    Symptoms of the disease can start to show for two days after infection, but this can take up to 21 days in some cases. People are contagious for as long as their body fluids contain Ebola virus. For the most part, early symptoms are similar to diseases like malaria and cholera, as well as flu, which can mean the disease can be difficult to detect.

    Common symptoms of Ebola are fever, headache, weakness, cramps, aching in the muscles and joints, diarrhoea, vomiting, stomach pain, sore throat. As the disease progresses, additional symptoms may include rash, internal and external bleeding from the nose, mouth, ears and eyes, reduced liver and kidney function, trouble breathing, bruising.

    The working hypothesis of curtailing Ebola until Patrick Sawyer – Liberian naturalised American came into the picture ,was that Ebola would more or less stay put, spreading town-to-town, affecting only neighbouring countries, exactly because it is so fierce. The time from infection to severe illness is typically so fast that it is unlikely that a person would be able to get it together enough to go to airport while contagious – or else would be so obviously unwell as to draw attention to himself.

    Sawyer’s 1,000-mile flight changes this. Sawyer became ill in the plane after it left Liberia, once he landed in Lagos,Nigeria,he went directly to the hospital, was isolated, and died soon thereafter. Until Mr Sawyer’s death, all reported cases of Ebola had occurred in one of the three adjacent West African countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.

    The news that WHO has sanctioned use of untested drug for EVD treatment is heart-warming. However, the questions remain, how many doses of these drugs are available? How soon can more doses be made available? If made available, how much do we know about their efficacy and side effects?

    Public health approaches remain viable solution to Ebola curtailment. These are to be driven by government institutions and machineries but must be supported by responsible citizenship. With 198 Ebola cases in a nation of 150 million people, there is no need to panic but time for responsible citizenship by all. Public responsibility is paramount in curtailing this outbreak since it takes a man to infect a community.

    Despite the seriousness and notoriously incurable nature of the disease, preventing it spreading is relatively simple since only those who are symptomatic are contagious. According to the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, it is important to wash your hands thoroughly with warm water and soap, or, if that is not available, a hand sanitizer can be used.

    In addition to timely reporting of all suspected cases of Ebola, people who believe they could have been infected with Ebola must isolate themselves and or be isolated from the public and call medical help immediately.

    As advised by Stephen Monroe, deputy director of the Natural Centre for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, we should all be geared up for a ‘marathon than a sprint’ in curtailing this ravaging disease. The fact that the outbreak can be receded much like a forest fire with sparks highlight the need for collective effort of all citizens is needed to meticulously track every contacts with carriers. Until we can identify and interrupt every chain of transmission, we won’t be able to interrupt the outbreak. Until we get all the fires put out, there’s still a possibility that it will reignite.

    • Oluwaseun Oguntuase

    Ibereko, Badagry, Lagos