For the same reasons Americans are being flown back to their countries for the sophisticated HEALTHCARE AND cure! I don't like the fact that the Nigerian troops are coming home to be quarantined. What if that doesn't work and they mix with the general population or violate isolation? We are about to be certified Ebola free on Monday Oct 20th 2014, now what?
The Nigerian Army has revealed that about 1332 of its peace keeping troops in Liberia have been placed under surveillance following their contact with a Sudanese who later died of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD).
The director of the Nigerian Army Medical Corps, Major-General Obashina Ogunbiyi stated this in Abuja yesterday.
According to the Army medical officer, the incident followed the death of a Sudanese Muslim man who had come to the camp of the soldiers to lead them in prayer during the Eid-el Fitri celebration, but developed Ebola symptoms the following day and later died.
Ogunbuyi noted that the country remained at risk as any of the soldiers could choose to travel home anytime, saying “that is why the military had to be totally involved in the fight against the Ebola virus.”
HNNAfrica learned that the Army personnel were scheduled to return to the country in January but that their arrival would be delayed till March 2015.
According to the source, when they arrive in the country in March 2015, they will be quarantined in Gwagwalada, Abuja for 28 days before being allowed to go to their formations.
With files from Punch and Leadership newspapers
