The governor spoke at the fourth Lagos Corporate Assembly tagged; ‘BRF
meets Business’ at the Lekki Free Zone, Ibeju-Lekki Local Government. He said
They (Nigeria’s EVD victims) would have died in vain if we surrender to the
virus. They are heroes and they must be appropriately recognised. We must
continue to push forward in the fight against it. There is still problem in
Liberia, Sierra Leone and others. Their population is not what we have in
Nigeria especially in Lagos State. For Lagos alone, the capacity of the state
encompasses many of those countries affected by the virus. The governor noted
that the country should be considering how it would assist the countries still
battling with the virus, noting to help them solve their crisis using the
method that we have applied here. That is the leadership role Nigeria should be
playing on EVD at the moment. According to him, this should be part of the post
Ebola activities because we have the fifth largest economy in Africa. On the
strategy used by the state, the governor said Without the Public health law
which was passed in 2002, we would have been in trouble. This was one of the
things our partners asked immediately they arrived. The law gives the state the
opportunity to arrest anyone whose health constitutes danger to others. When we
said yes, they were happy and they said that was where they started their work.
Without the law, we could not have achieved what we did. When cremation law was
passed few years ago, some residents kicked against it. We said it was not
compulsory. But if Lagos wants to retain its status and achieve more, the law
is needed. The law caters for foreigners that cremating is part of their life
style.
Vanguard Newspaper
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