Ebola: Jonathan Calls for Cooperation among W’African Countries
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday called for strategic collaboration among West African countries to control and contain the Ebola virus, with a view to checking its spread and further threat to human lives.
The president made the call, when he had an audience with the new Ambassador of Guinea to Nigeria, Mr. Gaoussou Toure, who presented his letters of credence to the president at the Presidential Villa.
Jonathan commended the containment measures so far taken by West African countries that have been affected by the disease.
In a statement by his media aide, Dr. Reuben Abati, the president stressed the need for more concerted efforts on intra-regional cooperation.
“A problem that affects one of us affects all. We may need to come together as a region to strengthen our containment measures.
“I am however pleased that serious measures are being taken to control the spread of the disease” Jonathan said.
Earlier, Ambassador Toure thanked Jonathan for the financial assistance given to Guinea by Nigeria in tackling Ebola virus.
He assured the president that Guinea was deploying containment measures to combat Ebola outbreak.
He reaffirmed Guinea’s commitment to strengthening the country’s cordial relations with Nigeria.
Also speaking at separate audiences after receiving letters of credence from the new Ambassador of Germany, Michael Peter Zenner and Torben Antonio Gettermann, the new Ambassador of Denmark, Jonathan stated that the days of electoral violence in Nigeria are over and that the 2015 general election will be free and fair.
He called on the two Ambassadors to use their positions to strengthen the existing trade relations between their countries and Nigeria.
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