Few months ago Nigerians were discriminated and vigorously screened before allowed to U.S. and Europe, now the tilde has turned. The European countries of Spain and Norway have recorded cases of Ebola, with medical workers outside a hospital in Spain protesting over suspected cases of the disease.
According to the investigation by Punch, some passengers billed to travel from Nigeria had been cancelling their flights over renewed fears of the deadly disease. The spread of the Ebola Virus Disease to the United States and some European countries has forced many Nigerian travellers to cancel their flights to some of the affected countries.
This is even as health and immigration officials at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos have been ordered to properly screen passengers coming into the country from the affected countries.
This is what passengers has to say:
Mrs. Tope Philips:
“Ebola is very deadly and it is better to stay away and prevent it as much as possible. I will go to the Far East, maybe Jordan or Qatar, for my annual vacation and visit the US maybe next year. It is too dicey to take a risk now.
She was booked to travel on Delta Air flight to the US on Monday, cancelled the booking and opted to go to a Far East country for her vacation.
Another passenger, Mr. Wilson Johnson, a Nigerian based in Ghana, said he had postponed his business trip to the US till December.
“Thank God I am in a position to shelve the meeting. I cannot go now because my wife also called me from Accra, advising me not to go to the US now. They may not be as serious there as the Nigerian government that took charge of the Ebola situation.
Ebola is very deadly, so I cant really blame anyone for making such a decision. But its all a matter of time; Ebola will soon become a history because those U.S. and affected European countries are definitely working hard too to contain it.
Nigerian authorities are making every move to forestall re-occurrence of what happen earlier, case of Liberian Patrick Saywer who brought Ebola.
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