PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has
called for strategic collaboration among West African countries to
control and contain the Ebola Virus Disease as a way of curtailing the
scourge and further threat to human lives.
He made the call in in State House, Abuja on Tuesday, while receiving in audience the new Ambassador of Guinea to Nigeria, Mr Gaoussou Toure, who presented his letters of credence to the president.
Jonathan commended the containment measures so far taken by West African countries that had been affected by the disease, stressing that more concerted intra-regional cooperation and action needed to be developed.
“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,” he said.
Earlier in his remarks, Ambassador Gaoussou Toure thanked the President Jonathan for the financial assistance given to Guinea by Nigeria, for tackling the (Ebola) disease, assuring him that Guinea was deploying containment measures to combat the 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, President Jonathan stated that the days of electoral violence in Nigeria were over, and that the 2015 general election would be free and fair.
adapted;tribune news paper
He made the call in in State House, Abuja on Tuesday, while receiving in audience the new Ambassador of Guinea to Nigeria, Mr Gaoussou Toure, who presented his letters of credence to the president.
Jonathan commended the containment measures so far taken by West African countries that had been affected by the disease, stressing that more concerted intra-regional cooperation and action needed to be developed.
“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,” he said.
Earlier in his remarks, Ambassador Gaoussou Toure thanked the President Jonathan for the financial assistance given to Guinea by Nigeria, for tackling the (Ebola) disease, assuring him that Guinea was deploying containment measures to combat the 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, President Jonathan stated that the days of electoral violence in Nigeria were over, and that the 2015 general election would be free and fair.
adapted;tribune news paper
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