Ebola in Lagos: Govt denies envoy contact report, names the true identity of the suspected high government official

The Lagos State Government has denied reports that the Nigerian Ambassador to Liberia came in contact with the Ebola Victim, Mr Sawyer who later died in Lagos.

In a statement by Mr. Hakeem Bello, Special Adviser to the Governor Babatude Fashola on Media, apologized to Mrs. Obi-Nnadozie for the inconveniences the error may have caused her as an individual and as a high official of government.

Part of the statement reads...

“We wish to correct the error that Nigeria’s Ambassador to Liberia, Mrs. Chigozie Obi-Nnadozie, was one of the persons that had contacts with the late Liberian with Ebola virus, who died in Lagos last Friday after flying into the country from Monrovia. We have since learnt that the official who travelled to Nigeria with the victim and who was mistaken for the Nigerian Ambassador to Liberia was actually a representative of the ECOWAS President.

“We hereby tender our unreserved apologies to Her Excellency for the inconveniences this may have caused her both as an individual and a very high official and Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. We, however wish to state here that the error was made by the official of the Federal Government who was at the briefing on Monday and provided the information at the Lagos Secretariat, Alausa, Ikeja.”