Wonders
are not likely to ends soon! Ebola?
According to an update by Punch,
the people of Bankole Street, Isheri-Oke in Lagos State, were thrown into
confusion today as residents of the area woke up this morning to find the pathetic
sight of the body a middle aged woman hanging on a tree. Tufiakwa! According to
the report, the woman (name withheld) was found dead in a black sweater and
orange skirt under a pear tree. Punch Reports
Residents who spoke to Punch said
the woman was a Liberian who worked in a sachet water factory before she died
and that the woman did not live on their street.
While they said that the woman
had been sickly for some time, the residents said she did not appear to have any problem with anyone in the
community. But after the outbreak of the Ebola disease that was brought to
Nigeria by a Liberian diplomat, Patrick Sawyer, some of the people in the area
opted not to have anything to do with her.
One of the residents who pleaded
anonymity said:
“We see her in this neighbourhood
every day. She always looked sick but people stopped selling to her after the
Ebola outbreak. It could be because she was Liberian and looked sickly. This
might have frustrated her.”
Another resident who spoke to
Punch after his request for anonymity was granted said:
“She attended a church in the
area and her church members still saw her yesterday. I used to see her every
day in the dress she died in. She was sick and people in this area had avoided
her, especially after the Ebola outbreak.”
The PUNCH gathered from some
landlords, who are members of the Isheri Oke Community Development Association,
that the incident had been reported to the Isheri Police Division.
Efforts to reach the Baale (head)
of the area, Chief Albert Bankole, for comments proved abortive as he declined
to speak to The PUNCH on the issue. The Lagos State Police Public Relations
Officer, Ngozi Braide, could not be reached for comments.
Meanwhile, when Punch
correspondent left the area around 11am, the woman’s body was still hanging on
the pear tree.
Source: Punch
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