12th August, 2014
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has called for strategic collaboration among West African countries to control and contain the Ebola Virus Disease in order to check its spread and further threat to human lives.
Reuben Abati, spokesperson for the Nigeria President said in a statement that Jonathan stated this on Tuesday while receiving the new Ambassador of Guinea to Nigeria, Mr. Gaoussou Toure who presented his letters of credence to the President at the State House, Abuja.
President Jonathan commended the containment measures so far taken by West African countries that have been affected by the disease stressing that more concerted intra-regional cooperation and action needs 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,” Jonathan said.
Ambassador Gaoussou Toure had earlier thanked President Jonathan for the financial assistance given to Guinea by Nigeria for tackling the (Ebola) disease and assured him that Guinea is 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, Jonathan stated that the days of electoral violence in Nigeria are over and that the 2015 general elections will be free and fair.
Jonathan called on the two Ambassadors to use their positions to strengthen the existing trade relations between their countries and Nigeria.