NIGERIA TO SCREEN DR CONGO PLAYERS FOR EBOLA BEFORE FRIENDLY MATCH
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NIGERIA TO SCREEN DR CONGO PLAYERS FOR EBOLA BEFORE FRIENDLY MATCH
Nigeria insist that their pre-World Cup friendly with DR Congo will go
ahead next week despite the outbreak of Ebola in the latter country.
The Super Eagles are set to host the Leopards in their first 2018
World Cup warm-up game, with the match set for Port Harcourt next
Monday [May 28].
Nigeria’s minister of Sports and Youth Development, Solomon Dalung,
says the country will take strong measures to ensure their safety, but
they will not be cancelling the match.
He claims that the arriving DRC players will be thoroughly screened
for the disease: “[They] will come to Nigeria in a chartered flight
and nobody else will be allowed to arrive the country for the match
through any other means except the chartered flight,” the minister
affirmed.
Dalung added, “Nigeria is going to play the friendly with DRC. I have
discussed with the Federal Ministry of Health, with the World Health
Organisation. We have reviewed the situation and received adequate
information about it.
“So, we have agreed on major approaches. One, the DRC team is coming
through a chartered flight and those coming for the match will be
using that chartered flight and they would have been screened from the
DRC and they will be screened here in Nigeria.
“There is going to be no any other person that is going to be admitted
using any other means of transportation for the match.
“We also discovered that the Ebola outbreak is limited to a particular
place and it has not escalated. So, we wouldn’t want to run the risk
of setting a precedent which we will later be a victim of.”
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