Gert van der Hoek
In Memoriam - Editor, Senior Moderator
New ?Military Approach? to Ebola War in Sierra Leone ? President Ernest Bai Koroma
November 4, 2014.
At the Miatta Conference Center in Freetown about thirty minutes ago, President Ernest Bai Koroma told the assembled tribal headmen/women, councilors, and parliamentarians of the Western Area of Freetown that his government is now in a ?new phase? in the Ebola War which would involve a ?military approach?.
This ?military approach? is what has necessitated the President getting the former defense minister, Major Palo Conteh (Rtd), as CEO of the new Ebola Command with the acronym ?NERC?.
Referring to President Koroma as the ?frontline commander?, Hon. Shekuba Amani Sannoh, Member of Parliament for Constituency 112, underlined the mood and tone of the President who said laws would be ?enforced? with military dispatch against those who continue to violate the anti-Ebola logic of non-Ebola personnel washing of corpses of people. The President said that they should use ?force? against those who ?resist? the dictates of the anti-Ebola burial teams, contract tracers, etc.
The traditional leaders, and councilors, and especially youth, were exhorted by the President to ?comb? their neighbourhoods: ?You know everybody and everything about your neighbourhood. If you don?t see a person for a couple of days and you suspect the person is sick and is hiding inside his/her house, report the matter. Insist that contact be made with the Ebola Surveillance Team?.
Read more: Cocorioko International
November 4, 2014.
At the Miatta Conference Center in Freetown about thirty minutes ago, President Ernest Bai Koroma told the assembled tribal headmen/women, councilors, and parliamentarians of the Western Area of Freetown that his government is now in a ?new phase? in the Ebola War which would involve a ?military approach?.
This ?military approach? is what has necessitated the President getting the former defense minister, Major Palo Conteh (Rtd), as CEO of the new Ebola Command with the acronym ?NERC?.
Referring to President Koroma as the ?frontline commander?, Hon. Shekuba Amani Sannoh, Member of Parliament for Constituency 112, underlined the mood and tone of the President who said laws would be ?enforced? with military dispatch against those who continue to violate the anti-Ebola logic of non-Ebola personnel washing of corpses of people. The President said that they should use ?force? against those who ?resist? the dictates of the anti-Ebola burial teams, contract tracers, etc.
The traditional leaders, and councilors, and especially youth, were exhorted by the President to ?comb? their neighbourhoods: ?You know everybody and everything about your neighbourhood. If you don?t see a person for a couple of days and you suspect the person is sick and is hiding inside his/her house, report the matter. Insist that contact be made with the Ebola Surveillance Team?.
Read more: Cocorioko International