Ebola Hits Osun Osogbo

The Osun State Government has announced that it has barred foreigners and non-residents from attending this year’s annual Osun Osogbo festival.

This development is aimed at checkmating potential spread of the deadly virus to the state.  Announcing the ban placed on foreigners and other categories of people who are not resident in Osun, the state’s Commissioner for Information, Sunday Akere expressed the determination and readiness of the administration to safeguard the state from the menace of Ebola virus.

He maintained that the state took the “painful” decision in order to prevent some people who might have contracted the virus from spreading it to others who would also attend the festival.

While disclosing that the state government had taken some measures to ensure effective treatment of affected victims, in case of an outbreak of the virus in the state, Akere implored the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) and other groups not to mobilise people to attend the festival.