JUST THINKING

It is no longer story that the way of life in Africa is about to change for a while or maybe forever.  The handshakes and the hugs are to be replaced with intentions rather than reality. If this was in the olden days, the chief priest would have been summoned and demands would have been made on him on how it all started and which gods is angry that has befallen us with this gruesome ailment.  This whole episode can’t be undergone now based on civilization and the fact that the wickedness that has befallen us comes out from the wickedness of men is what this is all about. 

A brother once posted on facebook (Sheik ÐëXxÿ Alãðésuru): It’s from playing cards that I learnt the heart of men is wicked.... Everything was going on smoothly until I announced 'last card' & next thing I heard was 'pick 3' up to 5times. For those that understand you’ll see the wickedness. 

Another friend of mine said it was his mathematics teacher that showed him what wickedness was in high places:

With these examples you’ll be amazed men could be this wicked; but the conspiracy wickedness we’re looking at is the Ebola wickedness. 

Ebola: a virus named after a river in West Africa. The river originated a virus that has started killing Africans is a fuss we need to stop. From the origination to the spread and the imminent discovery of the control measure in America after two of their doctors contacted it shows wickedness in high places. 

 ORIGIN

Either in the rivers of Congo or the expensive laboratories in the west; Ebola was created. It found itself in the veins and fluids of the apes and fruit bats. These animals without knowledge of how wicked the hearts of men were, hosted the virus that till today. A little know if it was manmade or otherwise.

 SPREAD

With the advent of this deadly virus in the 1970s little was known after a while. All that contacted the virus died and the news of Ebola went into extinction. Suddenly there was a rise in the name Ebola again in the voices of the medical personnel. The spread was building and the areas that had the infection were cordoned but along the line there was a spread.

PATRICK SAWYER

These revelations calls for attention on how the spread of Ebola really relates with the epidemic West Africa is experiencing at the moment. Nigeria suffered its first known patient in the name of sawyer Patrick 

Read excerpts of the Front Page Africa report after the jump

Barely 24 hours before his death, Patrick Sawyer had a rather strange – and in the words of medical and diplomatic sources here, “Indiscipline” encounter with nurses and health workers at First Consultants Hospital in Obalende, Ikoyi.

Looking to get to the bottom of Sawyer’s strange ailment hospital officials say, he was tested for both malaria and HIV AIDS. However, when both tests came back negative, he was then asked whether he had made contact with any person with the Ebola Virus, to which Sawyer denied. Sawyer’s sister, Princess had died of the deadly virus on Monday, July 7, 2014 at the Catholic Hospital in Monrovia. On Friday, July 25, 2014, 18 days later, Sawyer died in Lagos.

Authorities at the First Consultants Hospital in Obalende decided that despite Sawyer’s denial, they would test him for Ebola, due to the fact that he had just arrived from Liberia, where there has been an outbreak of the disease with more than 100 deaths.

Upon being told he had Ebola, Mr. Sawyer went into a rage, denying and objecting to the opinion of the medical experts. “He was so adamant and difficult that he took the tubes from his body and took off his pants and urinated on the health workers, forcing them to flee.”

Sawyer exhibited similar indiscipline behavior during his sister’s stay at the Catholic Hospital in Monrovia where she was taken because he noticed she was bleeding profusely and was later found to be a victim of Ebola. Sawyer was seen with blood on his clothing after his sister’s death and had earlier demanded that he be placed in a private room. President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf cited indiscipline and disrespect as a key reason why Sawyer contracted the Ebola virus. She said his failure to heed medical advice put the lives of other residents across the nation’s border at risk.

First Consultants would later report that it resisted immense pressure to let out Sawyer from its hospital against the insistence from some higher-ups and conference organizers that he had a key role to play at the ECOWAS convention in Calabar, the Cross River State capital.

The First Consultants statement noted that it was able to obtain confirmation of Ebola virus disease, (Zaire strain) after working with the state, federal and international agencies. Sawyer was pronounced dead at 6:50 AM Nigeria time, on July 25 and all agencies were properly notified.

Once the case was officially confirmed, the hospital was temporarily shut down and in-house patients immediately evacuated. Sawyer’s body was subsequently cremated under W.H.O guidelines and witnessed by all appropriate agencies, according to the hospital statement. “In keeping with W.H.O guidelines, the hospital is shut down briefly as full decontamination exercise is currently in progress. The re-opening of the hospital will also be in accordance with its guidelines”, the hospital said.

In total, Sawyer reportedly came in direct contact with 59 persons, 44 of whom were at the hospital he was taken to when he fell ill, according to the Lagos State government.

His ashes have been returned to Liberia.

Lots of questions come to my mind as you are also thinking right now…..

 TREATMENT

The deadliest and most pronounced virus trending in the world at the moment is the Ebola virus. It got so popular that the price of bitter kola went up in Nigeria when we heard that bitter kola helps build immunity against it. A proposition that came from a renowned pharmacologist; but how true that is, only science can tell. 

Over a hundred deaths have been recorded in Liberia and Congo has a little more than that. Guinea wasn’t left out of this plague that has become of West Africa and it’s amazing that suppression only came when two Americans were infected. I remember the words of George Orwell in animal farm… “All animals are equal but some are more equal than others”. Maybe they were. ZMAPP a new means of “guaranteed life” now hangs in the hands of the Americans and in other words it means the survival of West Africa hangs in the hands of America. 

A popular saying in Nigeria: the white man that made pencil also made eraser…… just thinking.

DECISIONS 4

With all these revelations there is nothing else to discuss. The issues between us are over. There is no apology that can turn back the hands of time. Even my parent won’t want their child to get married to a man who has six kids or more outside and his major objective of living is sleeping around all sorts of ladies including maids. I cried as we were going back home. I was tired and frustrated. My lines were ringing; friends were calling and stupidly on everyone’s DP my picture with his is always there with PM reading 4days to go. I really need four days to get out of this town. 

I told Ngozi to start arranging a runaway plan for me. I can’t stand explaining this to anyone. My parent would do that. I won’t even tell them where I am going to. I would just call them up and let them know I’m good. All these were my plans. 

Immediately we got home I walked straight into my room. I needed to be alone to remain sane. A little bit of tears in everybody’s eyes and I knew I was really the cause of these pains my family is going through. If I didn’t bring the useless Desmond to them I wouldn’t have to go through all these insults. I thought I needed to apologize to them. I pulled together all the courage I had and opened the door from my room through the passage to the sitting room. I pulled the curtains aside and saw Desmond in front of me.

He knelt down and said: Sheila; I have wronged you, not just you and your family but everyone. All these you know about me today are true but in all sincerity that isn’t me. I have never loved before I met you and the reality of all is that you are the only one my heart is tuned to. Probably if I had told you all these before this day we wouldn’t have gotten to this level but baby believe me I’m a changed person and together we could build a world of our own. The decisions for our future lies in your yes or no. it’s four days to our consolidation in front of the whole world but at this time I’m at your mercy my love. 

He stood up slowly and I saw the sincerity in his eyes. I held him tightly and at that moment I knew I can never let Desmond go. I gave him a long kiss in front of everyone and after a while I told him “Desmond it’s over”. 

Now I’m out of the house, and its four days to my wedding. I have to decide either to go on with the wedding with the knowledge of all those children or call it off with an abortion.   

What do you advice?  Please I need your comments………

DECISIONS 3

It was Uncle Charles’s cool word that stabilized mum. He was called into this mess when it turned out to be a little beyond the physical. I recalled all the moments I’ve had with Desmond and I can say categorically there was none that he showed he had a child somewhere. Now Helen wants to leave, we really can’t keep her. I started feeling polygamous already. I know my husband to be has two male children or more outside our intending matrimonial home already. I’m about entering a life of struggle and the fear of what I went through in my house growing up is what I’m about experiencing.

When mum was fully stable, Uncle Charles called for prayers. Africans disturb God with their prayers and I know in heaven they would be tired of how lethargic and dependent Africans are. The prayers lasted for like ten minutes and the echoing amen were directed towards heaven. In Jesus mighty name we pray ……….. Praise the Lord alleluia. Now prayer is over, it’s time for action. I can’t sit here and watch my whole future crumble, and I don’t think I have that patience of waiting for Desmond any longer. I need to see him and ask him what is really going on. I’m going insane; I screamed and all attention was placed on me. 

I jumped into the back seat of the car with Uncle Bunmi and Uncle Charles in front. Ngozi never left me anyway, and Desmond’s house was our destination. We would be there in the next thirty minutes but suddenly traffic was up at the moment. I just felt something would happen… like I would wake up or it was all a kind of setup from Desmond but how come the child look a lot like him. Helen was so close behind, making the turns as we do and intimidating with the luxury of her car. 

Now Desmond’s house is in view. The two uncles at the front seat started advising me not to be naughty when we get to Desmond’s house. They still call them in-laws as if they are deaf to all that is going on. I didn’t complain nor did I say a word. The only comfort was those hands of Ngozi patting me regularly to stop me from crying.  We parked our car behind his car outside the gate and Helen one more time blew her horn for the gate to be opened. The stupid security didn’t even check who was inside the car, he just opened. The whole truth was about to be exposed I know but I was told to sit back inside the car for the case to be presented. 

I waited for like five minutes after they’ve entered and then told Ngozi I can’t bear sitting inside the car when I’m about to be judged. I would find my way inside. We argued respect for uncles a little but when I opened my door she knew she had to rush out with me. I didn’t knock at the gate as I normally did but pushed it open and like a tout marched into the living room. I knew I wasn’t going there to do anything stupid but I needed to see for myself. When I entered I saw a crowd I didn’t expect in there. Apart from Uncle Bunmi and Uncle Charles, there was a family gathered there with them and my entrance was about to change everything.  Desmond’s head was bent in soberness and then I knew he couldn’t deny it any longer. 

I knelt down to greet the parents and elders in there and sat beside my uncle. Tears kept rolling from my eyes and I wished I had done abortion before now to terminate the baby Desmond kept inside of me. Desmond’s dad stood up and acknowledged the presence of everybody. He continued with some adages and wise saying to calm the atmosphere. He expressed his regret for this day and said if not for his child he wouldn’t be caught in this kind of mess but not withstanding he had to do as a father. 

He turned to a lady seated at the edge of the room and started like this: you said when your oga go to work; you used to come and see my son in his room. And he used to give you money and promise you he will take you abroad. But now you are pregnant for him right. The dad turned and looked at me and my relatives and said my son just got our nieghbours house help pregnant again. That’s the sixth pregnancy case I’m settling in four years. Sheila my daughter; it’s your decision that I stand with. He turned and faced Helen and his son and called the boy by his native name and the boy ran to grandpa. I stood up as Ngozi supported me walked slowly outside. I was about opening the gate when a man barge in with a cutlass and his 16 year old daughter…… her tummy was also protruding………………………….

DECISIONS 2

The same shock I went through was now being exposed to everyone at home. Everyone asked questions like I knew the answer until they turned to Helen to tell them if it was really true. She narrated the story again and again until the conviction was grand. I started hating Desmond from that moment but would I call off my wedding I’ve been planning for six months off because I knew he got a woman pregnant?  What if she was telling a lie? I kept a part of me in that denial of she might be telling a lie. After a while we were all convinced about her story and it was time to summon the culprit in this whole saga. Uncle Ben told me to call Desmond and put the phone on speaker. I should behave I never knew something was wrong and stylishly invite him to the house to face Helen and the truth would be known at that point.

I dialed his number after so much composure and he smoothly started the conversation again. I asked how his day had been and he started the whole jargon session of hi being at the fashion house where he is adjusting his shirt for the wedding. He had gone to the photographer to finalize on locations for after wedding shooting. He had also paid the travel agency for honeymoon in Zanzibar. All these took my mind out of what I was supposed to do until I was pinched by my mum telling me I had to invite him. 

I waited for him to be done as I told him I wanted him to come to the house to see something I just got. He was hesitant a little as he asked what I wanted to show him. I brought out the femininity in me with tones of conviction and he promised he was going to be with me in less than an hour. I was about ending the call when I heard his hello again. I pulled backwards to listen again and he said there was something he wanted to tell me. I relaxed as he continued….

Desmond: it’s four days to our wedding baby and sincerely there is something I need to tell you. I never wanted to tell you before because I didn’t believe in it that much but I was convinced lately. Although I have taken care of that side of it being a problem but I think I should let you know. When I was in my final year in the university; you remembered one girl I told you we were dating called Freda. We were pretty close at that moment but it was with caution and I knew it wasn’t anything more than university love thus I was so protective. She wasn’t so sure about me so one particular day she set me up with her very close friend. It was a friend’s birthday party and I had a lot to drink. I was so high that I couldn’t remember what happened afterwards but top my surprise I saw myself naked on my bed the next day lying beside a lady. I struggled to open my eyes fully to comprehend what was happening and to my greatest surprise it was Freda’s friend. I snapped into reality and woke her up. She acted like it was consented but when I showed how angry I was she adjusted. It was during our final exams that she told me she was pregnant. I thought she was joking until I came back from UK six months ago and saw the boy was just a copy of me.

When mum heard this she fainted