Revealed: How Mr Olu Koye Took Ebola To Port Harcourt

Dr. Samson Parker, who is the Rivers State Commissioner for Health, has narrated how the deadly Ebola virus managed to escape to Port Harcourt.

The commissioner revealed in a press conference which held yesterday evening in Port Harcourt that late Dr. Samuel Enemou, who was secretly treating Mr. Olu Koye, a Nigerian diplomat with the Economic Community of West African States, knew that the latter had the virus before flying down to Port Harcourt.

“Olu Koye had received the late Dr. Patrick Sawyer in Lagos. Upon developing the symptom, he confided in a female colleague, called Lilian, who contacted the late Dr. Samuel Enemuo. It was after contact was established with Dr. Enemuo that Olu Koye flew to Port Harcourt to see him. 

“To conceal his movement, Koye, who had been quarantined among other people for
having primary contact with the late Dr. Sawyer, the Liberian-American who transmuted the Ebola virus into Nigeria, sneaked out of the isolation unit where he was being observed and took a flight to Port Harcourt and switched off his phone so that he could not be reached or traced should he answer a call.”

According to the commissioner, when Koye arrived at the Port Harcourt airport, he checked into a hotel called Mandate Gardens in Rumunokoro area in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area. The hotel is located in the same area where late Dr. Enemuo's Sam Steel clinic is situated.

“From what we have gathered so far, Dr. Enemuo, knowing that Koye was positive of the Ebola virus took some measures of precaution to protect himself while treating Koye.

“Knowing the enormity of what he was doing, Enemuo upon Koye’s departure for Lagos, poured bleach all over the room that Koye slept in order to sanitise the place.

He further explained that after Koye departed, Dr. Enemuo fell sick and and decided to contact one of his doctor friends at Good Heart Hospital along Evo Road in G.R.A, telling him it was just a fever.

“He lied. He did not tell the doctor that was treating him his full story. But the doctor, a nice and conscientious professional, suspected that Enemuo was either hiding something or was suffering from a strange ailment because he proved negative to malaria, fever and typhoid fever.

 “To be sure of what he was doing, he spoke to other very experienced doctors about the strange case he was handling in his hospital.”

The commissioner added that when the doctor contacted other of his medical colleagues to assist him in analyzing Dr. Enemuo's medical history, they all declined the invitation out of fear of Ebola. That was how Enemuo's condition kept deteriorating until he died and his body was subsequently deposited at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital.

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